Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-09-13
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

be made safe aud orderly 7 Every
known country was paying tribute to-
America, and sending IT'S population.
here, with all their diverse religions,
eustoms and ideas. Such a eombl-
nation can asver have been made harmoni
GUS except by national education. 1t
religion meant love to God and love to
man, it would be controlling
power. But while in few hearts 1t
means this, at all other points it bris-
tolls with warfare. Religion saouh
mean harmony ): intelligence does
Education should include political
principles, morality social duty. 1t
should be made compulsory. Every
State should provide for the education
of its whole people. Such provisions
has been made, such principles settled;
but as formers sometimes plow up the
old sod and SOW again, so it. BELTS us
to deal with moral growths, and ii is
time now to discuss this great matter
once more. The influence of foreign
elements in our population demands
lively interest in the whole matter
The State must educate it's people,
and not the church. The State has q
right to make its own existence secure,
and security to the State comes only
firm the education of the whole peo-
pie, which thus becomes sclf-defense
Dogmatic religion is not necessary to
the existence of the State intelligence
is School houses should be multiplied
till they are ample for the accommo-
dation of ALL and the teacher should be
among the Aost honored of the land
No one stands so near the father and
mother, in influence upon the fnture of
the country, as the school teacher-Hos
professors in colleges, but the educators
of the masses.
Our schools do not teach enough
They should include the distinction
between good asd evil; insulcate
truth, honesty, temperance, self control
fidelity, economy aud patriotism. 1t is
not imperative that the nse of the
Bible be insisted upon, for rsully it was
not the NEST felieitous school book ;
out more truth shoald be taugla |
Every man shonId improve in the use
ruth. Is there truth i'm the houses we |
build in the goods we sell? in the |
work We do? Are there not as mauY |
lntruth as mice in an old hotel? We
grasp for more than we deserne, and
ind ourselves cheated in the quality
t is vain to teach the higher branches
sud leave these more important things
lntaugAt. Men should be so taught as
70 be patriotic, not when the drum
,eats and cannon roar, but when they
tand alone. Dapper, dainty, delicate
Toung men, who are afraid Of hard
work, swarm in all the cities and beg
or soft positions under government
md in fat Offices. 1t is sin for any
nan te bring up boys thus; they should
'e taught to take care of their own
mouths and backs with their own
lands. 1t is a shame to know all
bout Mars and Jupiter, and nothing
f Massachusetts. The State schools
hould be SO good that no private
ehool can live in their vicinity and
very poor boy should look up to
he State as his rich uncle. Com-
ulsory education ought to give no
ust person offense. The law gives no
nnoyance to the man who keeps in
dvance of it. Self-interest might
emand education, but it could not be
depended up Many foreigners come
'ere desiring education for their child
en- others, who ought to be equally
come with far different mo-
YES. They are useless and danger
Us class with out intelligence. We
ave five million men in the country,
no cannot make anything, and these
1 require education. The speak r
allied the coming of tho Chinese to our
esterp shores, for they broughf their
ands full Of tools--brought intclli-
,nce. education and industry. He
id not fear their religion, for if their
oss was stronger than our Jehovah he
Ight to reighn; but the time was not
slant when they would become valu-