, 1875-05-02

THE CHICAGO TR1Bl
and economy recommended By cur fathers, th
experiment Of salt government will prove to be
in the long run the most expensive one that va
| erer established.
! THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
Both the Mayor aud the City Comptroller hay
recommended to the Council curtailn1apt OF th
! expenses for tue next year, and. as their advlc'
| ia seconded by unanimons growl on the part o.
the taxpayers, it is quite likely tho members o1
that august body will heed the call. There has
made. too many expensive bridges erecte<i and toe
many costly Rchoolh0uaea built in wards that
| did not need them, or could get alcng well
enough without them.
But do not imagine that We are not prosper
GUS because we are unhappy over the high rate
Of taxation that now temporarily at1licts us.
That ia temporary drawback, easily remedied,
and the curn lies in tbs hands Of the people, who
| will not bo SLOW to apply It. Mlwaukeo waa
never more active than at the present moment
! ture. Our people have gradually turned their
attention to manufacturing, until the aggregate
| amount OF goods that ia annually produced here
would astonish the folks who think We
! deyote the most Of our time to
OF cur manafactories are iron. leather, Hour.
| steam-enginea and boilers, clothing, boots aud
shoes. wilfowWare, wire-woFk. furniture, hats
| aud caps, car-wheelB. manufactured tobaccos,
pianos, church-organs, plo"s' wagons, carriages
| chains, edge TOOLS chairs, paper collarg, mapo
carpets, paper boxes, brass mountlugs, mill
gearing, trunks pipeg. stoves, and large
number of other articles too numerous to men
ton, but winch swell the annual production OF
our artisans to immense proportions, and add
r9n fEf "a nj rnn1trv
oUA SCHOOL SIBTEN.
An exhaustive articls upon our pubGc-school
system, treating the subject fully aud in de.ail,
would fill many columns OF THE TRIBUNE and
would doubtless interest those OF ita readers
who are engaged in school work themselvss !;
but as have room for only abort paragraph,
tho whole matter must he disposed OF BY the
statement OF a tew OF tho most important facts.
The system has grown With the city's growth,
and our schools are now as good ~ those OF any
town in the Wost, and much better than soma of
those OF older and richer cities elsewhere.
Our excellent Superintendent, McAllister. has
issued his annual report, and careful perusai
OF its $50 dalnti1y printed pages will satisfy any
ono OF the truth Of what have been saving. It
cost the city, during the Inst year, s147, 900 to
carry on the schools Of which $l16.0o0 went to
pay teachers' wages. The number OF children
Of school-age In the city is 33, 1900; the uumber
attending the public schools is $3.50; the num-
Der attending private schools is 7,300; and the
number not in schools OF any sort is II, 200.
When q city offers the strongest induce
ments that can be held out to prevail
upon parents to send their children to school.
provides the most conf fortablo and costly bnild-
inge, and supplies them with every conyeniencee,
hires the best teachers that eau be employed,
nnd then only eecures tho attendance Of one
half OF the children that ought to attend, is it
not time for the Legislature to enact a law on
the subject OF compulsory education? It is true
that many OF thess children aud youth that are
rto5 aha fha. -nnho ha.
long to poor families which need their labor
themselves, OF need what they earn OF others
but after all those are subtracted, It leaves go
many unaccounted for that the number ia sut1-
the apprehension Of educators and pi,ilan-
thropists. The subject is 10 suggestive aud i'm
poftant that the pan Is turned from its Discus
zion with reluctance.
THE HIGH SCHOOL,
has taken another new departure and added new
o portunit'es to the Normal Department. The
High School itself ia made up OF pupils taken
from all the public schools Of the city that are
able to pass tho proper examination. and such
Of those as are preparing to become teachers
are placed in the Normal Department.. Hero
they have been instructed in the theory Of teach
iug ali branches OF education that were desig-
mated by tho Board Of Education. and recently
Model Department. has been added for the pur-
pose Of testing these prospective teachers in ths
pr1otcal business Of giving INSTRUCTION. Each
young teacher is required to take her turn at
teaching class Of small children that have
been selected from the public schools for
that purpose, while both teacher and class are
under the aye and general supervision OF the
the Principal Of the department. This gives tho
teacher the oppot tunity to test her powers. not
class, and the latter is quite as Important in the
preparation for teaching as the former The de-
partmen. is under the general direction Of
thoroughly competent and exnerienced teacher,
and its com! lete success iB already insured
THE AukwAUKEEAN AT HOME.
In studying the Milwaukeean at home. tho OBJ
server il imaresaed With tie fact that lis church
relations influence him more socially tnan tney
do religiously. and the society to which he be-
longs ID chiefly estimated to be Of value to him
afford him and his family. Theservices on sur
day do him some good, il is true, it in no other
way than to furnish 3 cosy opportunity to sleep
under the dull, monotonous drawl that proceeds
from the sacred desk, and tho weekly prayer
meeting is Of interest to him. not because he
attends it, but because he believes
in prayer. especially it uttered by a
sincere and devout person; but whom
it comes to the church Hociabies, the church leo
tu1es, tha church suppers, the church exhibi-
the church dances. OF the church spelling
schools, he ia neither absent nor asleep. We
have gone still farther here in Mil N aukee than
in some other places, and have had our sectarian
Silver. MlniuR companies. ~ WHICH th6 8nfawd
elect who was inside the ring took the financial
hide of his unsuspecung brother and hung ir.up
to dry, just for the pleasure OF keeping 3 good
thing inside OF tho churchl We navs: not Jet
UNCONVENTIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
although there are several organizations that |
are willing to issue policies agaiust fire in the
world to come, provided the insured accept |
their terms, nor have we built q Methodist OF q |
Catholic railroad but that VIC have NOT already |
done so is probsby owing to the pernicious in
huence Of the Potter law in dtscouraging |
capitalists, and not to any disincllna-
ton on our part. And what |
comfort it is to know that ii we are cheated at |
the grocery, the coalyara, the rnilliuer's or the
It is done by one of those belong
ing to the Same household Of faith as ourselves,
and that possibly the ideutica! overcharge on our
last months butchers account Was placed on
the plate on Sunday, when the collection was
taken up, and thus We were made to contribute
more to the good cause than the plea
Of the minister was able to get ont OF US.
So you observe how natural it is for Mil
waukeean to connect himself With some re-
spectacle religious society, and the more re-
spectacle it is the more certain -he ia to