The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-09
BY JOHN T. MOORE.

AS a species of guard against prolixity,
and to enable'me to say in brief man.
ner, what would, perhaps, occupy too
much time, were to speak extempora-
neously, and to convey to your minds
some idea of what the Street School is,
and to what Street Education tends, I
have departed from my usual custom of
aextempore speaking, and have reduced
my thoughts upon the subject to writing.
The school of the street is immense; its
students innumerable its capacity and
accommodations are almost limitless it
is bounded on the one hand by the era
die, on the other by the grave; it's session
is perpetual, its commencements are
daily.
The curriculum embraces the entire
catalogue of human misery and mans
depravity Satan is the president, Beel-
zebub, Mammon and Bucchus distinguish
ed members of the faculty; Aphrodite,
Terpsichore and the Sirens, lady instruc-
tors, beguiling the mind into oblivion of
the stern consequences of the course of
instruction. The diploma is the "gilt
edge hell'' of conscience whence is
stamped every disposition to good. The
undergraduates fill the punitive institu-
tions and the lazar houses of every land
where cities are built, and men do con-
gregate.
And the finished scholar, he who has
taken the full course and graduated amid
the acclamations of the thoroughly de-
praved, and the hot applause of the pan
demonium, makes his final bed among
the ceaseless waves of perdition, and, in
the bitterness of perpetual anguish, cur
ses his Alma Mater with ferceness of
profanity equivalent to the distinguished
degree received by him for proficiency in
and education whose final doom is night
eternal
Persons dwelling in our rural districts,
if they base their estimate of the devel-
oped course solely upon vice as it appears
In such districts, have no conception of
the fatal magnitude of our Street School.
Their vicious are bnt the abecedarians, in
nowise to be compared with the academic
of the towns and cities where streets are,
and Street Education flows, without let
or hindrance, save as it becomes weight
ed with its own pollution.
AS nature'e laws are laws of equivalen-
cy, and as "the wages of sin is death" the
mortality among the students of the
street institution is fearfully great. Ma
ture in her magnificent struggle to main
tain just equilibrium, visited the heads
of the graduates from the school of vice.
the consequences of their pernicious
course, and with relentless hand
and infexible will demands of them to
yield up the jewel, life, and let the bro
ken and shattered casket return and min
gle with it's kindred elements. Hence,
the tendency of vice is to depopulate the
towns, by destroying the scholars of the
street school; this tendency is not real |
lied, because fast as they fall, the moral |
youth, allured by Aphrodite and enticed |
by the Sirens, bring their cargoes of rus
tic virtue, and, needless of the fearful
consequences incurred by their predeces-
sors, deposit them at the feet of our in
fernal Faculty, and assume the places
made vacan. by those already gone to
their final recitation, and, starting upon
;he same downward road, keeping step to
;he same music of ruin, these rustic &C.
fill out their measure of the
anne vast cycle of iniquity, and in the
nd bow to the same inexorable laws of
depart from among men, l
eaving their names a reproach, their |
memories a loathing and their decend- c