The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.

mon Schools, and as They Of course
desirethat the people shall know
how the Radical party stands with
reference to the same matter, we
commend to theirprayerful attention
the following from the Cincinnati
Gazette, the leading Radical paper
of the State. Please copy. A lead
ing editorial headed 1.-The Family
and the State appeared in the Ga
zctte, April 1s,,1s71-and the follow
ing refers to. the Common Schools: 4
"11ould there Be a more efectual
system for making criminalsi'
1T does nothing to fit children for
the necessity to which the mass of
them are BORN 1urrry:t
"Ihis p~retentious system, which
assumes to train the children of the
Nation to be good citizens aud cap
able governors, and thus to make
sure the Republican State, has to
confess that it does not touch the
real necessity of the people. and
that, when stripped to its reality, it
rests upon the aoors than pagan pre-
tense that theteaching of the schools
will make the rising generation vir-
tuous and capable citizens"
| On the 21st of April, 1871, the
Gazette said:
"We have had the good fortune to
receive the unqualified and tpdrm ap-
proval of the Catholic Telegraph to
the article in the Gazette entitled
1.-THE Family and the State" treat
ing particularly of the part of the
State has assumed in educating the
children. Il Thus the
Telegraph indorses our principle of
a State school system founded on the
needs Of the poor, and on the duty
of society to its helpless members,
and limited By these"
We quote other articles ofthe same
sort, showing the systematic and
long-continued fury with which the.
Gazette assailed the school system:
from the Cincinnati GAZETTE, May 8, IsII.l
sit 1.-THE common school system
has fostered the idea that education
lifts them (the children) above the
necessity of common labor, and Civ
es them entrance into the light and
genteel ways.of making "a living.
But q system which takes those who
have no parents or capital Or friends
to push them, and units them for.
common labor, and does not even fit
them for the light and genteel bust
ness, throws them helpless on the
world, makes the most promising sub
Ljects for rice and crime"
at is most fortunate for the com
munity that the mass of children are
withdrawn, early, There nerer has
existed in the world so potent an en-
CINE for social. rain as this system
sromld be if the mass Of the children
passed through it," ga-g r.
s.T IFronn the GAZETTE, March 5, 1851 ii
"Such a perfect system (of public
schools with compulsory attendance)
could be a grand propagation of
there's, .forgers, burglars, s,oindlcrs,
loqfers, drones, ptmps, drdm-seHers,
and all such light and geateel trades
lFrom tile G ,zErrE. March u. ls7:l
"a great State establishment 1.-THE
common SCHOOL, has been built up
for the poor and yet fer but the rich
enjoy ii. = 4 And so our
splendid charity establishment cul
inmates in furnishing free schooling
! to the rich at the cost of the poor,
Ia + x Thus do we find out
that we have created a great State
establishment, upon the pretense Of
the popular need, which does not fit
the wants of the people. The thing
Is found to be. a tailare.p -5Hs -ri
j, mo political or religious bigotry
was ever more intolerant or unjust
than this school fanatdcism." ns
"What a Communistic lie is that
which is made to support all this
3 wild theory-namely, that teaching
children to read and write and ci-
! pher, and so on, is intelligence and
'1yirtue! II 1t would reduce
all to a level Of q herd of cattle, OF
E to the hard, unsympathising and
degrading methods of the Oneida
, Community, where parents have nc
lrights, and there are no parental Oh
filial affections, but each child is re
garded as the property of the Com
munity, and all are brought upin
common nursing factory"
From the Cincinnati GAZETTE, March II. is7s.
"What the State ought to do in the
way of schooling, is just what il
0 ought to do in the way Of feeding
f clothing and sheltering-that is, pro
i. vide for those unable to get it. Ant
the extent of this is what car be got
in connection with training to labor
and with occupation from the earliest
age of usefulness. The abandon
ment of this has NO stopping place
short of providing for all the educa
ton that is good for any, and thi:
involves the support of the mass o
8 children while attending school,"
! SAT the present it will need pow
!, erful effort to stop the further eXpan
l. sion of the public school establish
> ment. The realization Of its failur
d has driven it's special advocates t.
q raise a cry for forcing all children
into the schools"
Now, if the editor of the Eatol
Register can produce from a demo
+, cratic journal, anything that vii
y compare with the above anathema
and denunciations of the Repu6lica
= Cincinnati Gazette, against our pre-
" sent Schools, he might prevail upo
some of his readers to believe tina
IS there was q little spark of commo