Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-18
GENERALIZATION GROWING.
"NatiOsar' School keeping Proposed
Direct Tax of $50, ,O00, 900 for. It.
A Chance for the Radicals TO Plant their
Peculiar Doctrines in the Breasts
Of the Rising Generation.
The Latest and Grandsst Scheme for
Radical PeculatiOn, ExtortiOn and
Tyranny.

tyranny
From the New York Journal of Com
merce.
Persons who cherish a rosy hope
that the taxes are TO be reduced,
should ponder the propositions in
Representative HOar's bill "to es-
tablish q system of national educa-
tion," which has been favOrably re-
ported by the Committee on Educa-
ton and Labor. In his Fifteenth
Amendment message, the other day,
President Grant dropped a signiti-
cant hint for Congress TO "take all
the means within their cQnstituuOnal
power to promote and encourage pop
ular education throughout the
country" On the same day that his
message reached the capitol, the ex-
fraordinary bill that we now proceed
10 notice came back from the Com
mittee TO the House, a coincidence
best explained on the suppOsitiOn that
the President and Committee had
conferred, and that Congress had been
sounded on the subject, and IS eX-
pected to pass the measure. a more
cleve-ly contrived scheme to make
thousands of new OfticehOlders,
maintain SventiOnal taxes, find
work for revenue assessors and col
lectors, and strengthen" the central
Government, has never come under
our eyes. AS prop for the Radicals
1t is the best thing get thought OF, fcr
st will plant their peculiar political
doctrines in the breasts of the rising
generation along with the first seeds
of reading, writing and arithmetic.
That shreWd gentleman, whose name
is the occasion of considerable profit
less dispute among antiquaries, who
wanted TO write the songs Of nation
in preference to making its laws, did
saCt originate half so smart an Idea OF
Enouiding national character as Mr..
Hoar has hit upon. A monopoly OF
ballad making and mongering could
do much to shape the preludIces OF a
GeOple, but nothing like what an
army Of political pedagogues, with
switch 10 one hand and the Radical
articles of faith in another, and the
whole power of q government at their
hacks, could do il that line. The in
ventOr of this patent for confirming
and extending Radicalism indefinite
Iy is the master craftsman of his party.
After a long, high-SOUnding Pream-
BILE, GprOpOS OF the fifteenth Amend
meut, MIR. Hoar comes straight TO
business. and proposes the appoint
goent for each State in the Union Of a
Superintendent of National Schools"
at a yearly salary OF $4,000. Multiply
ing 5000 by 81 (the number OF States
when they are all in), We have Slll,-
900 of annual expenditure TO begiu
with. These supeFintendents VIII
E'boss the iob," under the immediate
direction of the Commissioner Of I'd
ucation, who, n turn, reports Tor gen 1
eral instruction 10 the Secretary OF the /
Interior, who finally takes his cue 1
from the President, making the whole /
affair a complete administrative ma 7
chine as much as the army or revenue !
crowd. For each Congressional Dis 1
trict the Secretary of the Interior IS to /
appoint Division Inspector of Ma |
sional Schools" on Z salary OF 5000; F!
S5S9s multiplied by 242 equals Siof,- |
600. EachI Of the divisions shall be /
divided by the State SupeTin {
tendent int6 school districts OF
size, ID be managed by
a. local superintendent of public
schools" ," at three dollars q day iOr the
time he is actually employed. This
means millions upon millions OF dol
lars in the aggregate, but for want Of
more precise data than we have, we
cannot estimate the sum even prOXi-
mateIy. What with the salaries OF all
these myrmidOns of the strong govern
ment, the hiring of an indefinite num-
her Of schOolmasters and mistTesses,
the erecting and repairing OF school
houses, the furnishing Of school books
for children not able to buy them, and
other incidental expenses, Mr.. HOar
Is probably within the mark by pro-
Viding for a direct tax, to be appOr-
toned among theseveral States, OF Sj0,-
OOO, 900, Just 10 start the experiment, for
that Is all that even so large an
amount as that will really do. The
more We turn this scheme over the
more are We lost ID enforced admira-
ton of the audaciOus genius that
oiauned IL! Besides the incalcGlable
power that 1t cOnfers on the
Observation-Disclosures its thou
sands % well paid and willing Stipen-
diaries, and the jndOctrinatiOn in the
tender mind of childhood of the
straiphtest Radical pTi2ciples-think
of the pickings and steaungsI The
New York county courthouse tades
into nOthingness compared to the
nrotits TO be made from supplying
school books, putting up schOolhOuses,
ETC. Patronage, power, mOney-al
things that political ambition prizes
and struggles for-Yill flow IN bound
less measure from HoaF's bill. /
- srNr dom mol D
spending engine will 20 into effect ia
tbe Southern States Immediately after
the passage Of the bill-for in those
States there is low no system OF pop
ular education such as the bill pro-
vides for, and the States are, and will
be for long time, too poor TO pay ior
one Of their own. 1t rests with the
cotton of the President whether IT viii 1
not be introduced into all the other
States at the Union. The last section
that any State p1ay make
provision foy the education o. al chill
dren within It's borders between The /
ages of six and eighteen years; but
the President is clothed with absolute
power to decide whether any State
system meets his views and wishes,
and, if not, the national scheme viii
he made TO supersede it. Democratic
States will be especially liable 70 have
their own educational laws nulliteC
aud schoolmasters turned out to make
way for Radical teachings and teach
ers. Wherever it may be Of political
to rub out State system
and impOsS the national one, reasons
plentier than bIackberries can be found
for doing it.