Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-11
COMMON SCHOOLS.

The Board of Education OF the city Of
Brooklyn, New York, have recently had
the subject of mixed classes (boys and
girls under consideration. After long
and patient Investigation. in which near
ly every teacher in the city was consult
ed, the Board decides that the practice
is grossly immoral, pregnant with dan
ger, and discontinuance Of the co-edu-
cation OF the sexes is ordered. What
startling contrast is here offered to the
late action of the United States Senate.
On one hand We find An ordinary Board
Of Education of suburb OF New York
for that is all that Brooklyn is-doing its
best to raise the standard Of the schools.
In pursuit OF this object, after careful
inquiry, it IL decided upon competent
testimony that the promiscuous mipgling
in schools Of the sexes Of the same race
is hurtful, aud should be abolished. The
Senate of the United Ststes-tha. august
assenib!age of couscript fathers, the col
lected wisdom and patriotism of the
nation-on the contrary, is doing its
utmost to degrade this system Of educa-
ton, and either destroy it altogether or
render it Useless. The Brooklyn Board
says the co-education of white boys and
girls is bansful; the United States Senate
throws in the negroes by way of pun
fer. Wonder how the Brooklyn Board
will admire that dose? In a recent letter
from Rome, published in the New York
kilograms, the remark is made that in
Rome it is source of astonishment that
the hateful common schools are allowed
to exist in the United States. The SEN
ate must have shared in the feelings Of
eumity INDUCED in by the Propaganda,
and has done its best to destroy the OBJ
noxious system. A correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing from Wash
ington, says: THE political conse-
quences may be far more serious and
extensive than any Of the Republican
leaders OF this Congress anticipate. "
The man is right. The political conse-
auences that will follow this delib-
crate attempt of the Senate to
insult, disgrace and injure the chill
dren Of their own race and coun.
try will be more, far more serious than
the legislators who are guilty of the
offense imagined. at is m i'll bird that
fouls its own nest;' and it is an i'll rep
resentative that does anything to lower
or injure the children of his constitu-
ents, or at any rate, those who are not
able to provide the means of education
at their own cost. IN the next few po
litical campaigns this will be found out
and TINT party and the candidates thai
60 before the people, carrying the bur
den OF rendering the common schoo
system at present the pride and glory o
the country, a reproach or utterly use
less. will find it a greater load than it O
they can carry. Without in any name
depriving the negro of all the education
al advantages that the whites enjoy, Their
is no earthly reason that the children o
the latter should be annoyed or demoraI
lied by constant association with fello'
pupils of an inferior race. II the objec
is to raise the mental and moral statu
Of the blacks, that cannot be done b
lowering that of the whites. When tn
discussion OF this matter leaves the col
rupt and bargain-making vote market c
the National Legislature, it will be a
gued in the vast forum Of the length an
breadth of the land, where the people s
as judges. The Congressional misrepr'
sentatives will see then that the popul,
voice will Ee true to its best interes
The people know and estimate the pric,
less benefit, Of education at their trl
worth. They know the dangers and II
miseries that ignorance entails. Havir
enjoyed the blessings that follow Il
free dissemination Of knowledge, thu
are not likely to voluntarily forego theI
simply to crafty some few hsre-braine
enthusiasts, and few more designil
knaves. They will, however, do tn
They will grasp firmly the advantae
they possess, and will give the Sal
privileges to the blacks, but they v
never consent to common promiscuo
herding together, which would init
aud humiliate the white scholars u
render no earthly benefit to the blac
If it is found beneficial to separate
sexes in schools, certainly it is equa
we'll to so keep the races.