Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-08-03
M1LERsBuRG HOLMES COUNTY, o. THURSDAY AUGUST g. 1871

the army, the navy and the church will
ont any special reference to their fitne.
for these positions, and often to the ez
clusion of men better educated and be-
ter suited TO the work required.
Third speak next of the union @
church and state in Great Britain.
'' know very well what the great minds {
* the English church have done for learn
ing, for religion and for the worlds ad
= vaneement. l bow before these mind
Il with honest admiration. They an
among the masters that I cheerful
: recognize. Such original thinkers q
Butler, Paley and Whately; such me
of genius as South, Barrow and Jerem
Taylor; such earnest preachers as Mel
. vile, Robertson and the present Arch
! bishop of Canterbury are an ornamen
! not only of the Church of England bu
of Christian civilization. But / believ
the wealth, the learning, and the piet,
of England would have done still NOR
good upon the voluntary system. ad
mire the Church of England, but ad
mire her American daughter more. Tn
bishops and clergy of the Episcopa
church in the United States will no
compare unfavorably with those of tn,
mother church in learning, in piety, O.
/! in self-saerificing labors for the good o
humanity. propose to show that ever
the Church of England, beneficent as i
has been in many respects, exists for tn,
sake of the few rather than the many
At the Reformation, one-fifth of all tn,
real and personal property of Grea
Britain belonged to the church. Much
of this was confiscated by Henry VIII
and not given to the people but lavisheG
upon his fayorites, another of the priv.
ileged orders. But even now the income
OF the English church is 25,0OO,000 pei
annum. which, at four per cent, a COM
mon rate of interest in England, is the
interest on $625, 100000, a sum equal to
one-fOurth of cur " hole national debt
at the commencement of Gen. Grants
administration. One-half of all the
people of England, including Catholics
and Dissenters, are excluded from any
participation in the benefits of this i'm
mense fund by their religious convic-
tions. One-half of all the rest of the
people never go to church, so that these
immense revenues directly benefit only
about one-fOurth of the English people.
The difficulty is not diminished by learn
ing how this money is expended within
the Church. The Archbishop of Can
terbury has an annual income of $751;
900 per annum, three times the salary of
the President of the United States. The
Archbishop of York receives $4,000 a
year. Many of the higher clergy have
an annual income of from $4,000 to
$4,000. On the other hand three
fourths of the $4,000 clergy of the
church have upon an average less than
$500 per annum, and in individual cases
less than $50. If the immense revenues
of the church were expended upon the
body of its working clergy, there would
be less reason for the people of England
to complain, but instead of this we find
immense revenues concentrated in the
hands of few. ~. ....- -......
FOURTH speak next of the limita-
tions upon the right of suffrage in
Great Britain. We have heard much of
the extension of this right. Two great
reform bills have been passed by the
British Parliament, the object of which
was to extend the enjoyment of the
elective franchise. The passage of both
these bills was described by British
statesmen as subjecting the State to
strain which endangered its very exist
ence. There has been so much discus
sion upon this subject in England, that
you would almost think that every man
must have BY this time, at least, two
votes at every Parliamentary election.
What is our surprise then to find that
out of 100000 of adult male citizens
in the united kingdom, only 100000
have the right of suffrage. and that
previous to the passage of the last re-
form bill, only 100000 had this right.
After all has been said upon this sub
ject in and out of Parliament only about
one-third of the grown men of England
have any voice in choosing members of
the House of Commons.
Fifth-As we approach the subject of
education we find that the same princi-
pie prevails here-that of providing for
the benefit of the few at the expense of
the many. No country in the world |
has made such splendid provision for |
the education of its rich and high born |
as England has made in its universities |
and great classical schools. The annual |
revenue of Oxford alone is $2,3OO,OOO.
and other universities, and
the great schools are endowed upon by !
a corresponding scale of magnificence.
The total income of all these great |
of learning is about $l0,000,-
600 per annum. But what provision
has been made for the education of the
mass of the people? Something has
been done no doubt, but how little in
with what was required. To
illustrate this point let'us compare the
whole united kingdom with the States
of New York and Ohio. In 1870 the
population OF the united kingdom was
at about 81 100000. The pop
ulation of New York and Ohio together
was about 100000, considerably less
than one quarter of that of the united
and yet while the number OF
children in attendance upon common
schools in the united kingdom was l.
$780, 900, the number in attendance upon
such schools in New York and Ohio was
!, 1000, being more than half hun
dred thousand in excess of the former.
The number of children in common
schools in the united kingdom in 1870
was about per cent. of the whole pop
ulatioh. In New York and Ohio it was
20 per cent. of the whole population,
four times as great as in the former case.
this purpose from all sources, amounted
10 between nineteen and twenty mill
lions or dollars In New York and
Ohio the sum received from appropria-
lions made by law alone amounted be-
tween sixteen and seventeen millions of
dollars, an amount approXimating that
raised from all sources in the united
and yet the real and personal
ar-fr Nf Il ~ 60
mere drop in the bucket in comparison
with that of the united kingdom. Thus
we see that after all the anxious discus
;ions of British philanthropists upon
ihe subject ofeducation only about one
fJurth of the children of the poor have
The benefit of public schools. You say
his is wrong and foolish system.-l
Wrong it no doubt is, and foolish, too,
n the sense that what is wrong is al
ways in the long run foolish; but with
'espect to certain object it may not be
10 very foolish. In 1851 the teachers of
common schools in England were re- ;
luired to make certain reports to the
government. Thirty-five of these
eachers could only sign their names to
hese reports by making their mark. 1t {
nay be asked what they had taught
not much geography, gram
mar and arithmetic; but they might
lave been useful to the state in. calcu-
ating reverence for the nobility, and in
to preserve what an English 8
tatesman has called "the' wholesome I
of rank" (The speaker j
lere Illustrated this point by several
appropriate and amusing anecdotes. We :
re often told that although by the ]
english system the whole mass Of the S
'eople are not as well educated as in 1