The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-12
DIR WASHINGTON LETTER.

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the South to Public Schools Demo-
cratic Misrepresentation.
It is encouraging to find, in the news
paperpress IN every section ofthe country.
bright prognostications of revival OF
business. After so long period OF de-
preston in all the branches OF trade, 1t
is cheering to know that the clouds are
passing away, and that there is reason
able hope OF better times in the near 1u-
ture.
To one who has lived long enough to
have passed through more than one or
the crises which has, III the past, retard-
ed, for he time being, the rapid prosper
lty and onward march Of his country.
speedy change in all industrial ana
me rcantle pursuits will not be snfprls-
ING. The sudden destruction OF corn
d nee in bushes circles, which lmmedl-
ately followed the failure Of Jay Cooke
and Co., could only ne nmporary, judg-
ing the tutule by the past. We can zee
the evidence ola coming restoration OF
that confidence. This Will be Gstlng-
uishing attendant Ct the approaching
by the people nc the
ballot-box, that the Datural laws OF trade
are not To be Instructed by revolution.
Let that decision be made, then fear will
be dspel!ed, capital will be freed,
MANI factories will be opened and the
fires fekindled, mines will be worked,
and the song Of the toiling millions Will
once more be heard throughout this
widely expanded country
Among the first Impressions which
careful parent WISHES TO make upon the
mind Of his offspring is that winch Is
described in he good old afage, that
honesty is the best policy We have, IN
this Presidential campaign, striking
illustration of its truth. In the lives OF
the two candidates for the chief
me- gistracy of The natien, we find the
two opposites Characteristic of the men,
respectively. Tiiden has been profess
ional politician, and schemipg lawyer.
With him the doctrine THAT tAe end
| iustifies the means has been the rule by
which be has been guided. Hence the
trouble he now encounters IN explaining
mauy o. his public and private hcts, in
the effort TO make them square With that
idea IF honesty which prevails with hon
est men His miserable attempt to
answer the charge of defrauding the
public revenue, IN making false return
Of his income, is case in point. Insiad
of uroving innocence he renders his
guilt he more ccnspit uGus. He is now
| on trial 1T the bar of public opinion.
| The verdict will he rendered IN Novem-
| Der.
| Ia contradisinction with this failure on
the part of Tilden, we have the manly,
s,raig forward, and prompt answer OF
Governor Hayes to all ike charges
brought against him. He neither eqnivo-
Gates or Ensembles. His replies are to
the point. The charges have no ground
on which to stand. To have been
guilty of the offense attributed TO him,
would have made him inconsistent with
himself. His walk ana conversation
through life has stamped him as an hon
est man, who would neither cheat the
public treasury nor his nelghbor. His
path is striking proof that honesty Is
the best policy. He has given his fellow
citizens the denial, and they believe
linn.
We have on several occasions deemed
it proper to call attention to the action
of jake Thompson, and the course of the
Southern States, in aute-bellunl times,
relative to the public schools, and the
public school funds. Thompson's invest
ment Of So, 900. 600 in worthless Southern
State and county bonds, the fact that
teaching a colored man to read was
penal offense. and the opposition to the
public schools, we had hoped were only
to be found IN the past. But il appears
to the contrary. In not one of the So
colled "Confederate" States but may be
found deep, bitter determination to
deprive the mud .sills" white or black,
of all and any opportunity to educate
their children, in defiance of the spirit,
intent and security of Republican insti-
tutions, and they hesitate not to go
further, even, If necessary, and create
opportunity, Ia Texas, at the close OF
the war. the illiteracy ofthe Soutnerners
was almost beyond mprehenaion, a
school tax was levied, and a school fund
provided by law. School houses were
erected, and soon the full educational
machinery of State put in motion. SO
long as Gov. Davis, aided by the intelil-
genes of Mr.. Stevenson, as superlpeeDd-
emit of public education, was unimpeded
the Republicans were to be congratulate
cd on their fine success But the Demo-
Gratis, bourbon-like, could noth forget
strength laid in an illiterate lower class,
and all the old-time luminosity was soon
to he seen demanding retfenchment and
reform. A school fund OF So. O0O.OOO
had been created and ivested TO meet all
future demand. The new corners had no
sympathy with enlightenment of any
degree. Schools were closed, teachers
dismissed. and the pupils scattered and
thrust back into ignorance. Then the
school fund was attacked, and now that
IT has been destroyed they have gone,
we fear, never to be replaced. IL it
wondered at that the San Antonio Herald
thus boldly denounces the browning
of the Democratic "reform" !
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