The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-05-31
IHE PEAaapY FUND.

iupple OF OIL olhshen w ieAAh alN fHo"
Of hearing Of the above fund, Indeed,
il has cost tho state already much more
10 handle q single dollar oft, than the
dollar Is worth, or ever Gun be, Men,
eminent as educators, and who have
spent the Vlgor OF manhood In the
Legitimate business Of educating the
youth Of the land, have been seduced
by the glamour Of the dead Peabodys
bright dollars, TO abandon their ayooa,
ton, pass thelrunlyeraitiea, colleges and
schools over to the care Of Others and
are stumping the state teaching the
people that they can rightiully have
something for nothing, by accepting the
Peabody bonelaotion upon tho terms
proposed, which are such An that no
community which respects itself can
accept,
Occasionally inherited and donated
money, produces happiness, but more
often by far has II the reverse effect,
This IL the case with individuals and if
So with how much less oagerness ought
our towns and cities receive, with the
conditions attached, the money of Poa-
body, 10 educate our sons and daugh.
ters, which Ia sacred duty of our
own, and one thank God, which we
have plenty of honestly earned money
to compass, The donation originally
was made for the benefit OF the children
OF tho freedmen and in that light il
could be accepted but when the condi.
tons were attached requiring two dol.
lars by taxation TO one from the Pen.
body, IL was found the negroes were left
out in the cold, and hence It's limits
were enlarged 10 take in the children
OF those who were able to educate them
without resorting TO the charity of a
man upon whom we have no sort of
claim, and whose agents attach cond.
tons to the thing which are not only
wrong in themselves but burdonsome
and oppressive to those whom it propo-
ses 10 benefit
The fable Of the old robin and her
young in the wheat>feld, which was
ready for the reapors, will be remem-
bered by our readers While tho owner
relied upon his neighbors and friends,
the mother.bird was not alarmed at the
prospect of being disturbed. When the
owner called upon his brethren and
relatives to help, she still felt no alarm;
but when he resolved TO take his sons
and 90 himself into the fold to reap,
tho old bird had all her motherly in.
stlncts of alarm aroused, and with her
half iledged brood she sought safety in |
Hight. So il il with our children in |
Texas. AS long as we depend upon
some one else TO defray the expense of
their education, IL will not be done
but when we throw of our own coats
and 60 to work ourselves depend upon
1t, tho security of undisturbed ignor,
ancc will at once be destroyed, and our
happy children will fiji the school.
houses of Texas to OVERLOOKING
We need a healthy, vigorous, progress.
siye system OF public and free instruc.
ton, but We can never have il while we
daily with the pitiiul dole of the dead
phlanthropist, and not until we resolve
like men to do tho work ourselves,
which we are now vainly trying to in.
luce Others to do for us. The school
which we voluntarily tax ourselves to
upport is not n charity, but commu,
lity affair The Peabody school is
purely charity, and if Texas wishes to
ram her children to rely upon the
harity of others for that education :
which she is abundantly able to supply t
rom her own resources, why then let q
Ier accept it, but to our best Judgment !
he spirit underlying such acceptance is y
'rong and can only be productive of =
arm instead of good.
1t is time for Texas to take hold of
he school problem with the same man I
God she handles other matters, and s
corn the charity which Is neither ben. !,
Iicial nor complimentary. y