The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-02
HAYES AT CANTON.
SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT AT THE
REUNION.
Qnestions OF Absorblng Interest-Edu
ea,Ion-The indian Problem-An Nit
crate Our Immigrants
-Tne Duty ofthe state TO Edu.
cate It's children.
Conlrrd1 and Eellolr citi.ail /:


Comrades aid fetio'g CltaeFs'
Attic Soldiers State Reunion in Colur
hrs last month. I made some remarks q
.u ~ ~. s - &C. r,s.s.-a..
the outy Oh tne 1enefa 1ovetnnens
complete the WORK oil reconstruction
aHording aid, wherever it Is needed, K
the education of the illiterate white an
~ ,- S1s'''.Vl. =. "a. s,"i,,,..- s.o.o
coloieu people IN Ine siANe ~ S'H'e
l am firmly convinced that the subject
popular education deserves the earne
sttar,;o, "a ,ta r.aon,a NJ the whole coli,
At'eAs.Vn " .Hs FsSP.e y ~ ~,
try, WITH q view 70 wise ana coniPtelei
siye action by the Government OF u
United States. The means ut the con
..a - 40 loo,l snd State artorities nj
maui VI 'ns IVA S1N 80 =. A.,
in many cases wholly inadequate 70 ue'
with the question. The magnitude OF u
eyilto he eradicated. / apprehend, ia nc
eenerally and iully understood. Conside
tbese facts: Efa
i In The late slayeho ding States, unde
The system Of slavery, education was Dc
MED 10 me cdlored people, and the educs
tion n the non slsyeholding white peopl
wss srestIv neolected. By reason Of thi
ststs ~ th{ngs n 1880 more than four mi
lions OF people in the South, Of schoo
a .sa and o r tSat ape. were unable to real
ana ~, ~r;,a anj. more than three-Quarter
~ a .,n; i ~ voters are too illiteratet +
$780, nv aSsn m read their own. ballots
f TIS s,;i e nj rsn;dIy diminishing. B,
tba , ss a w statistics il sppeari
that in 1878 The total school population
white and colored. In the late slareholdiDl
states was ( Isl 5s4. and that only 2,7l0,
i1ae wsrs dn,iny anal wear enrolled in. ami
s ~ This leaves Two million four hun
dreS and ssysntv.seyen thousand four hun,
d,ed anil eiohty eipht. almost two and hall
miIlions-ofthe Young who are growing
mn witbont the means Of education.
E;,;zsnsb;n and The right 70 vote were con.
ferrsd rnan the colored people by the
sa,ssn,aart and ntonle OF the United
Sts,ss n Il therefore. the sacred duty,
"a II IA the HIGHEST interest, of the United
State n see that these new citizens and
. ssssSs ~ 40 fitted nv education for the
grave responsibility which has been cast
mon Them. E
D.. Rnffner. school superintendent Of
virginia In an argument that the general
sovernnent shonld aid the public schools
Is The south saws: Ilzl
az know not what Is true of Northern
and Western.States; but l can say for my
state and Tor most Of the Southern States,
"a S1s M. able 10 educate our people in
nv ,o,arabSs sanse, we are too poor 70
Jo;tS Asfew vesrs APO / showed this con.
NV statistic.
TSsre has moi been much increase in
fnsnc;aI ability in these States since that
s;na. na increase IN an average in my
own state. so far as / can Judge; and every
well informed man knows that, whatever
he the wants of State, her power OF taxa
t;on nv q limit y
3 In the Territories OF the united
sta,es a "a estimated that there are
ovar two hundred thousand Indi.
ans almost ali Of whom are I'M
c;vii;zeJ They have heretofore been
bnn,srs and yarriors Bat nov no one
rbn ohservss The rspid progress OF rail.
roods and settlements in the West can fail
m see that Inc game and fish, on which
The Tnd;ans nave Hitherto subsisted, are
sbort m disannear. The solution OF the
Indian Question will speedily be either the
extinction Of the Indians or their absorp,
zion into American citizenship by means
nj the ciyilizing influences OF education:
with The disappearance Of CANA there can
no longer remain Indian hunters or war.
r;ots The DAYS Of Indian wara are draw.
inc RI a close, There will soorr be nc
room, ior Question as to the department to
wS;ch the Indian will belong. In few
ssars al mnst agree that he should belong
he avery other citizen, only TO himself
The fine IL moi distant when heshould be
ab;ssv caTed for by the ciyilzing depart
mani ~ the Government, the Bureau o.
Education.
8. The people of the Territory OF New
Mexico have never been provided with
he means Of education. The number o.
neople ia that Territory in 1870, ten year
old and upwards, who could not read and
write, was $500. This IS largely more
than half Of the population. The school
nonrlaiion Is now over $1,000, OF whom
enIy about oassixth are enrolled II
schools.kIt will not be questioned that thu
power q the General Government Z
make all needful rules and Iegulatto ~
respecting the Territory Pelonglng 70 IN !
United States" Is SUFFICIENT 70 ept4o .H !!
TO provide for the education OF tne IN
creasing mess OF iiliterate GnSens groSinl
up in New Mexico and in other IerTIto
ries OF the United States.
4. The number Of immigrants arrlVlni
in the United States is greater than eve
before. It IL rot improbable from presen
indications, that, from this source slone
there will be added, during the cnrren
decade, TO the population Of our eorntr
Eve millions Of people. On one gay i Ss
spring there arrived IN New VOTE 4,eV
immigrsnts-almost I'VE thonSana N !.
single day at that one port. Dutins "
quarter ending the 3Oth Of June last, N
| number OF Immigrants .nta we oults
States averaged eighty thousand 2 mont v
and during the four months en9ing -