Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-16
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We have the following from Mr.. Judson 8.
Rroxp recently a Trustee Of the Public
schools
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July IS. 1870.
Editor Of Star In your issue of July ID Won
publish pnrPorted speech which YOU state was
made by me at the close of the Male Cirammsr
location.
The facts are, that L had hastily sketched
what you published, merely as an outline of
what had intended to prepare In regard to the
history Of the public schools in the First Dis
trict the past year, but not having suficie
time to rewrite 1t, did not read it at the close
OF the exercises, or dream Of its publication.
Your reporter however insisted upon the use
of the papers, with q view Of taking note OF such
facts in them ~ he might think worthy of
standing that the entire article was not
to be published. Judge then of nv surprise
after An absence Of several days, from the city,
to hnd upon returning, the crude article, In its
original abbreviated and imperfect form, pub
lisned verbatim In your paper Of July second,
with the Editorial preface indicating that had
handed 1t in for publication.
lSc s you ~. ,sSs:dy zee Are quite to the
god faith ON the part of your reporter. ss to
me opposition of the latter.
ticed hn ,t.enoeo 20 let the matter pass unno-
is fire, IS my attention, even at this late day
-suently called to the subject, trust that
you will do me the justice Of giving this explain
fully, Us. Blows.
1t is the mission of all independent nevspa-
pers to set everybody right, and we very cheer
fully ppblish Mr.. Browns explanation. At the
same time and in the same impartial mood it is
due to our usually correct and reliable reporter
10 say that he expresses the utmost amaZement
at what, We think, he designates the "cheek" OF
Mr.. Brown in stating the things he states. Oar
reporter AYERS that 30 far from"insisting" upon
the use Of the document he was not even aware
of its existence until Mr.. b. produced
it and voluntarily gave 1t to HIM for
publication. There was not only no dds
exceedingly anxious to see his bantIing in
print. Our reporter told him that he would
take it to The STAR Office, but did not know If
curious and interesting document, and it was
used, and, As he says, verbatim, for it would
have been scarcely courteous to a School Trus-
tee to tamper with his style, and, by making
punctuation, use Of capital letters, Sc, to init
mate that he was an igneramus. Had these re-
markable variations from the forms OF Orthog-
raphy and syntax now in use, appeared in the
production of an unlettered man, some revision
might have been ventured upon; but when a
School Trustee Of the prominence of Mr.. Jud-
"embarrass" with one and one 8, averaging
foIc,ns" with an putting with one er' "Sl l.
Iieving' with an ei, and providence" with
| three e's; and when he pluralizes "primary''
and 'secondary" by the addition of VS. etc
ETC., &C., &c, it may be naturally sup
posed he has some good reason for It.
And when he tells US that " Providence has
kindly preserved the lives and healths Of all OF
| our teachers" that Foreign Legations now
residents in the city" have visited the schools
&c; and " that i'm due time, however, order was
brought out of chaos, and the machinery (of
chaos p put into good working condition, and
As the steam (of chaos p began to rise, and hope
was kindling its prophetic Eye towards a bright
and prosperous future, another alarm was
sounded, which 1.-THE alarm p proved to be an
attempt to override the Law, J" &c.-when he tells
US all this and much more Of the same sort,
order, but have no doubt he has q rea-
son for II, Ineligible to himself, at least
He might esome Great American Innovator
or pathological ref0rmer, of the style of Noah
Webster, who went in for cutting OF all need
Historian, who on the other hand favors a re-
turn to the past, and spells ''honor" with an o.,
politics" with . X, and so on.
Was 1t to be supposed that all these variations
from the rules in Trustee Browns "'piece" were
errors to be corrected? We do not favor cor
strikes us that the smallest boy, in the bottom
class, OF the lowest grade, primary, who should
make the same number of plumbers i'm the same
number Of words would richly deserve q trounc-
ing:
and not innovations. We have heard of the boy
who excused his bad spelling on the score of a
bad pen. Mr.. Brown, it seems, can't spell
when he writes In haste, and more particularly
when he writes in haste in the morning We
advise him to do all his spelling in the evening.
and by all means to take plenty Of time about
| 1t, especially when there Il any danger that a
newspaper reporter may force his production
from his coy, reluctant hands.