, 1874-01-29

tlolls, viz:
In l!s, 5000 Of people "unablo to road and
u: xEs'' 'n'10 w'f0 a4s l'4 'ffe't'' that E8 in
In 100000 Of people who woro commonly
odncNtod, there wero ,93o arrosts TINT is, III
0,291.
THUS proving tho proportion of criminals in
tue ,1nodncated classes to be 228 tines Us great
as that Of tho educated classes.
n rocont report Ut Dexter Hnwkns, Esq.,
Of New York City, hc says: "Iu tlo six Now En-
Of the inhabitants above tho ago Of 10 yoars can
1.eitbor read nor writo,-yet 80 per cont Of
tho crime in thoso Statos Is committed by this
small minority; In other worias person With
out education commits tifty-threo times as many
crimes as ono with education. In New York aud
ronnsylvania, MI ignorant person commits, on
tho nyorago, soven ttmeB tho number OF criu1os
that one who can read or write commits; and,
in tho whole United statos, tho llitorate person
commits ton times tho number Of crimes that
tho educated one docH."
In q paper by Edward .. Mansfield, ILL., D.,
on tho relation botwcon crimo mud education Lo
draws tho following ConcluaionH:
First-rhat oue-thrd Of ali criminals arc
practically unoducatol.
Secondly--That tho proportion Of criminals
from tho illitcrato class is at least ten-fold ~
groat as tho proportion from those having some
education.
;. Mr. Darno1l, keeper Of tho Georgia Poniten.
tlary, says: Education is ono Of tho vital
P0MGEs Ill tuC Tcl0GuHtlQu Ot 1AllQ0 mon anu
women, who hnvo generally sinned through ig-
noranco. It's tendency is to qniokon tho intel-
lcct. expol old thoughts, givo now idoas, supply
material for meditation. inspire Belf-rospoct, OK
citc to higher aims, and afford henlthful sub
Rtitnto for low aud vicious a1nusomontB.n
''Tako II, 600 people" says Mr. Mansfield" IN
Now York an1 Pennsylvania, and tho result will
bo aa follows:
IGnp.o..
Estimated prisoners. 10
priBone1a tllttorate %
Others. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
What then ia tho practical result? That, be-
cause 400 persons out OF O,000 havo boon kept
totally ignorant, the county or State has sovou
times aa many criminals as 1t need have, and
me9 as I'M, much + expense and evil Of oil
It has boon shown, too, that tho foreign-born
/ criminals arc to natives nearly i'll the proportion
Of ten to ono. Immigration is filling our land
with q throng of uneducated foreigners;
tue fall Of Slavery, aud its long con-
tinuanco llayo made our Southern territory
tho sent Of almost universal ignorance. This
dark mass OF Ignorance thsoatonB obstruction to
| ffoodon aud our material prosperity. We 1nust
pnto this dark cloud by d thorough system OF
| compulsory and national education.
Mr. Hawkns adduces tho following arguments
| IN favor Of compulsory education:
Tristan examination OF statistics Indicates
that, as education increases, pauporism de-
| creascs, aEd, as cducatlon decreases, pauporiBm
incroaBes. {Vido report Of commissioners Of
Education for the United States, page 59G.)
Second-doyornmon should prevent both
crinao and pauporism by extirpating tho CAUSE OF
| each, to-wit: ignorance.
| Ihird-Slich education as our free common
schools afford adds, OIL tho avorago, 50 por cent
to tho producing capacity of tho citizon; while
q higher training incroasos 1t 200 or 800 por
cont.
Fou,t4-One can do moro md botter work,
from the ntroot-scavcnger up to tho most ahillcd
mechanic, with the sa!no expenditure OF tiIo
an, and force, from tho mere fact Of possessing
FJM-A we'll -educatod Commonwealth how
ever narrow it's borders Or poor it's soil, soon
becomes rich aud powerful; while an ignorant
ono. evon under tho happiost circumstances Of
land and SKY, falls prey to auarcly poverty,
| aud despotiBn.
SixlA-Prussia and many other German statos
haye tried it for ycayy With tho happiost rosulta.
Connecticut, Rhode Island, aud Michigan have
now adopted it.
Serenh-Iho taxpayers, who furnish tho
money to cducato all the people, have right to
require that al Bllnll bo educated, in order thut
| cri1no and paupcrienl, aud tho public burdens
| caused by the Same. lnny be reduced to mini
mum, and the ballot wioldcd only by Intelligent
| voters.
Eighh-Tho ballot, in tho hands OF q
corrupt M ana Ignorant popula,so IL tue torch
telIigcnt -, reople, is the bulwark Of
government il tho best yet devised; but popular
suffrage is peidition If tho voters know not what
they nro voting about. In just such proportion
aB they arc ignorant, aro their votes dangerous.
| NinM-TLo class most III need Of school-train-
Ing seldom attend school at all, to-wit: thoso
whobc parents, through ignorance, poverty, ava
! cntinn.
Ienl-Tho strocts Of our large cities would
bo cloarel of tile thousands Of youthful ya-
grants from whose ranks now ap army OF crinli-