The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-05

rule, where it is most Democratic, is taxa
ton, violence and oppression. b9l
IS. Our public charities.-We believe in
public charities, but the idea is supremely
ridiculous and dishonest, when q State can
not pay her debts, nor pay the interest on
them, to make heavy appropriations every
year to educate every child in the State from
6 to 10 years of age, rich and poor, white
and black, in the common schools, and at
the Universities, at the public expense, and
also to educate every mute and blind person,
rich or poor, and provide for every insane
person, rich and poor, at the public expense.
Charity means providing for the needy and
those who cannot take care of themselvs.
until they are able to do it. Every child in
the State, white and blck, rich or poor,
ought to have the chance of being educated
in the rudiments and essential parts of learn
ing, between the ages of and IA or 16 at
the public expense. But youths Of both sexes
and of both colors, ought to be made to
understand that when they arrive at IA or
16 years of age, they should study that i'm
portant feature in education, to learn to soork,
that they may be Independent. These are
some of the important features to be chang
ed. Others will occur to the reader Raleigh
Sentinel Sept. %.
The Democratic party processes great love
for the people, but the instant the party
succeeds to power, it is proposed to amend
the Constitution so as to make the Insane
Asylum, and the Institution for the Deaf,
the Dumb, and the Blind, Inaccessible to
all who may not be able to pay for their
unfortunate relatives who should have the
benefit of these institutions. Monstrous.
proposition The brain that originated
such proposition would have been fit
tool for Robespiere, during the Reign of
Terror in France.
1t is to be expected that the Democratic
party win kgislate in every copceivable way
to make party capital, but it IS a new phase
in politics to legislate against the unfortu.
nate children of any State. Let the Asylums
alone. The people do not hesitate to pay
taxes to keep up these institutions, and they
approve of the humane provisions of the
State Constitution upon this subject.
The second proposition is to limit educa-
ton. Children are to have chance to learn
the rudiments and essential partsof learning,
between the ages of seven and fourteen or
sixteen. Just as the mind begins to expand
and grow, the child must stop school, and
learn to work. The hands and not the mind
must earn daily bread. The rising genera
ton is to be dDarfed and stinted in educa-
ton, and rendered unfit for anything except
to be used as tools and not as MEN and
WOMEN. 1l'i II s2a fit4
There is class of men in the Democratic
party who are enemies to education. They
are afraid of the eoamon people They seek
to advance the interests of few to the Diet
riment ofthousands of children. These men
are men of wealth-they educate their chill
dren and oppose any system by which the
poor mans children are to be educated and
fitted for the highest positions in this or any
other government. -a,
These two propositions must strike a vast
majority of our people-without regard to
party-as being totally unworthy of serious
consideration. We are aware that anything
we may protest against will be received with
favor by the ruling spirits of the Democratic
party. However, we have done our duty
We hope never to do less.
While we are upon this subject we may
remark that the power of Prussia is mainly
due to the system of education which pre-
walls in that Kingdom. Go back to the
time of Napoleon the First, and notice the
difference in France and Prussia. Battles
were decided then because of the military
genius OF Napoleon, and not because his
troops were drawer or the subjects of France
better eddcated than those of Prussia.
Fifty-fve years have passed away, and we
behold Paris, the Capital of France, be-
seiged by Prussian army, in war de-
clared by France. What has brought about
such a change in the two governments
The soldiers. of Prussia are not Drawer than
they were at Jena, but they are educated
they are men in mind as well as in stature
they know their rights equally as well as
their King, and, therefore, they are superior
to other men who have not had the same
advantages. Notwithstanding this fact is
patent to all the world, the Democratic
party of this State is committing itself
toa system of limited education. r
In conclusion, education decreases crime.
The more knoyledge difused among the
masses, the less the cost on account OF
We do not believe the people will allow
themselves to be controlled by men who are
in favor of the propositions announced by
the Sentinel. The people want education
and they will cheerfully make any sacrifice
necessary to secure it. The truth OF the
whole matter is, that there are Democrats
who hold old bonds and they want their IN
terest at the expense of education. lgno-
rance is to be tostered- crime encouraged,