The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-07-15
OUR VILLAGE SCHOOLS


schools in our midst which are all we'll
sustained. Such private enterprises
never will meet our wants entirely; they
may answer for the rich and they may
satisfy the mere sectarian, but as true citi-
| zens we must meet the wants Of all classes,
nationalities and religions. Our village
schools should be of such character,
that no sectarlan or private schools could
| possibly be sustained their accomoda-
tons should be as complete as possible,
their teachers Of the highest grade in
thorough training, complete education
and elevation of character the courses
of study advanced enough to fit the schol-
ars for college, or university and embrace
instruction in the Sciences, ancient and
modern languages, music, painting and
all the accessories of polished, (what we
CALI finished education. All this can be
done b. a little extra burden in our taxes
and if not done, our school system, which
certainly is wanting in many things, is a
loss to us all; dead loss to the pupil
and of the time of the child which the
parent has to give. 1t is loss to the
| taxpayer, for while the difference between
good and poor school is but trihing in
expense. it is so great III quality, that
those who are able, will .,atronize private
| and parish schools, thus supporting taco
| inefficient schools at more than double ex
pense, instead of one SO good and COM
plete that no one would think or care to
have another We have civil duties to
perform a precious civil heritage to pro-
tect. The children of rich and poor, ma
tive and alien, white and black will all alike
soon become citizens and sovereigns to
build up, to control for the present and
to transmit to their children the greatest
civil interests ever entrusted to man, or
else to tear down, impair, corrupt and
destroy what the whole human race has
the highest interest forever to preserve.
Self preservation bids US to fit all our
children to understand what an heritage
they have to preserve and pcrpetuate and
to cherish its welfare as Que whole, far
beyond any selfish interest of purse, party,
ambition or scctarianism, any prcjudices
of descent. color or sectional preferences.
The principle Of human equality should
prompt us to furnish opportunities equal
ly to ALL The child of the pauper has
just as much claim and capability for in
struction as the child of the millionaire.
Our county has use for all the manhood
of both, and should do its utmost to have
it developed. The children from all the
| nationalities within our population will
soon be uoters and the rotes rule, no mat
ter who gives them. The State does not
despoil the rich thus to elevate the chill
dren of the poor, it is merely adding toits
strength, thus to protect and bless ALL
| Property is worth all the more when the
! Government iscontrolled by an intelligent,
unsectarian, patriotic, grateful people,
| than by seryile ignorance and mercenary
| villainy such as sway some of our large
cities. Diffuse intellectual, patriotic, phi
lanthropic virtues and the vocation of the
INSCRIPTIONS politician is gone. and let it
go; nc matter how soon, we have lost too
much by them already. The step taken
| at the last School meeting for building a
new School house worthy of our District
No. l. and adequate to its wants, is one
in the right direction The character of
the Officers elected for that district war
rants that the work will be done econom-
icaly, wisely and efficiently and our tax
payers ought to be proud to be able to
contribute to so noble an object. Our
teachers ought to be selected with the
greatest care, for-as one of our best citi
zens said at that meeting-a thousand or
even fifteen hundred dollars for man
fitted to our work are better spent, than
FIVE hundred dollars thrown away on one
incompetent and unfit to manage our
Schools, for we throw away not only the
five hundred dollars but the precious time
of our children and the opportunities of
hundreds Of our youths time and oppor-
tunity lost cannot be returned, they are
irreparable to the child to the parent
and to the taxpayer whose money is mis-
spent and wasted, irreparable to society
that seeks and needs well developed in
telligent and worthy members-to the
State that is still to be cursed after all its
care and assistance, with stultifed imbe-
| Giles, who are to exercise the elective
franchise, send knaves to Office and place
the priceless interests of civil and relig-
ious liberty in the hands of dolts. We
have nearly eight hundred children in our
District there is room in our school houses
for hardly four hundreds not this one
fact alone sufficient to wipe out all oppo-
sition to the new enterprise?
Let then every member of School Dis
trict No. l. say to our School officers en-
trusted with such important responsible
ties: Gentlemen We expect every one of
you to do your duty" and we will try to
do ours!
DEHAvEN's CIRCUS. propeller
Laketon arrived here early on yesterday
morning, having on board the above
mentioned circus, which gave two per-
formances during the afternoon and even
ing. There were some doubts expressed
as to the merits of this company, but