Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-05-13
WILMINGTON, DEL.
Monday Afternoon, May 10.
EXEMPTION LAWS AND PUBLIC EDrcA-
TON.

The Gazette is moved to express critical ais
APPRECIATION Of some Of the best resolutions
adopted at Dover, by the recent Republican Con-
ysntion. Seeking imrerfections in that body,
il seems to have struck at those points which are
quite beyond assault.
According to the information Of our neghbor,
it is notoriously false that the State laws for
the collection of debts permit the sale Of all the
debtors property. In this case, facts and not
rhetoric are most to the point. 1t should there
fore be stated that the laws make no exemption
in either Kent or Sussex counties. Petitions for
an exemption, and bills to grant it, have been
negatiyed by the Democratic Legislatures, one
bill of the kind having been voted down, in the
Senate, at the last session. In this County only,
is there any exemption and it is but one hun
dred dollars, instead of three hundred, as it
should be. The people are more familiar with
these facts than the Gazette.
As to the reform in the school system, the
special pleading Of the Gazette deserves con
tempt. Its party managers are opposed to an
efficient system of public education, and have
proved themselves so to be,not merely by words,
but by a consistently pursued course of action
Senator Bayard has more than once declared his
lack OF sympathy with the general instruction OF
the masses, and his belief that only few per-
cons in the community need to be well educated
Just as the slave drivers used to declare that
some men came into the world to be ridden, and
others were born, booted and spurred to ride
them The State Legislature, at its last three
sessions has persistently declined to take any
steps, whatever, to reform the schools, theugt
petitioned, again and again, by all classes Of
people, without regard to politics Moreover, il
Annulled the charter previously granted to a
school in this city, simply because its proprie-
tor dared to report the facts in relation
to the public schools, to the Ma
tional Bureau Of Education, a measure
of petty spite and narrow minded malice, worthy
only of the worst enemy of public intelligence
The pretence that nothing has been done tC
make the educational system efficient, becaus,
Mixed Schools were desired, is both shabby an,
transparent. Nobody asks. or ever did ask
for Mixed Schools, in Delaware On the con
trary the colored people petitioned (and man.
Democratic voters Joined with them in doinl
so,) that they should be taxed for schoo
purposes, and that the amount they paid ahoul,
be set aside for the support of schools for color
ed children. But even so moderate measur
of relief as this was refused by the last Legisla
ture, to its shame, and that of the Gdzettt, it
apologist, be the fact stated.
II the Democratic organs have nothing else t
complain Of, in the platform presented by til
Republicans, they have weak case The re
forms it demands are in the mouths of the pee
pile. and come from their hearts They espt
cially desire better means Of public education
and less severity in the statutes for the cole'
ton Of debts. Tho laws of the State are no
largely framed by a class Of heighborhood Sh,
locks, and village money shayers, who are pre-!
ing upon the industry and vitality of the State
They make the laws to facilitate their own extol
tions, and not to protect the interests of tn
people. They are rich enough to educate thei
own children in private schools and are perfer
ly Indifferent whether the masses receive il
struction, or remain in ignorance.