Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-10-20
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-.sc A7GNDNES
Tn. u,no: dmcnts make other chang
il .1e artic's on Education beside
tba roquirlng 81 children Of the two
rsces - be kept separate and apart
from, each other in the public shools.
They nro9zsa 10 strike out section
~ hi, article and IN its place TO ineer:
4ryo new sections. Tie difference be
tween that part proposed to be strick-
g. ont and that part proposed to be
inserted . sui stantialIy as follows {:
Trder section 4, az it now stands.
al moneps, stocks, bonds or other pro
Dcr57, belonging to any State fund for
the purpose OF education are required
to be securely invested and the prin-
cjpai thereof to DC secredJy preserved
oe an jx~cdncib!c CducatiOnal fund.-
The as.n8al income oniy, arising from
tl,i4 Investment. can be used for keep
tro IN cur public schools. The priD-
cipal is not allowed to be touched
urder my circumstances. The pro-
posed amendments give 70 the Legis-
Ia!ura the discretion 81 devote boti
nrincipni and interest Of this educa-
tion, fuEd to the rnaiutenance of our
nuhiic acb0ois i'll such d manner as,
NAV be deemed most conducive to
their support.
And there is plain reason ia the
preseut condition of our people why
both principal and interest Of ali edu-
ca.:onal funds should be at the dis
poeal OF the Legislature. The educa-
tional necessities Of the State Of North
Carolina are far greater to-day than
ever before in her history, but her
ability to meet such necessities YVES
never lees, If all the funds in the
treasury of the State for educational
purposes were spent upon the present
generation Of school children, it would
lot meat their requirements, for they
are now in the utmost need Of all pos
abIe educational facilities. IF these
needs be promptly supplied, when the
children Of today take charge of the
etTairs Of the State, as in the course
cf nature in very few years they will
90, the State Will be in the hands Of
edncat-d, Intelligent men who Will
have both The will and the means to
provide for their children. If the
nocds Of the present generation be not
met aud met promptly, it will be but
few. bus very few years ere the
State will be inhabited by a totally
unlettcred and ignorant population
who viii neither know or care any
thing about the value of education.
Think for a moment of the condition
OF things if but a single generation
shall grow up in ignorance. If this
Shall happen another century will have
passed ere the pernicious consequent
ceS Oi SO great 81 evil will have ceased
to DO visible. It will be curse to
ths land, comparable TO which all
other evils that have befallen it, war,
poatileuce, conquest, subjugation and
reconstruction, will seem almost bless
inge, The interest or annual income
OF al our educational funds, even when
added to such annual appropriations
OF moneys arising from direct taxation
as We mag be able to make, is utterly
inadequate to meet the requirements
OF tho present generation of schooi
children.
There is pressing necessity then,
t. give TO The Legislature power to ap-
rropriato TO educational purposes the
principal Els we'll as the interest IF such
eincational funds as we may have. 1t
Is Ike the prudent father who, when
he has but little to give his son, spends
that little in giving him an education,
wisely considering that if q young man
has al education he has en estate that
eanuOt be taken from him. Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof. IL
the matter of education our first duty
is to our own generation rather than
to poaterity.