The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-08


EDITORS CLARION: In your last issue,
ga Mississippi WOMAN" q think her
aomme de pIame,) is again before the public.
Will you permit, one of "a small minority"
to make a few remarks, touching on this
vastly important matter enl1Ie Educa-
ton" l have not thought that Trustees
of our University and a. and NJ. College
opened their doors to female students, be
cause the demand had been made, even had
it been by ten thousand Mississippi women.
There has been a growing demand for as
high culture of one, as for the other sex of
our children. Trustees have discussed {;
England, Northern and Western States have
already admitted; competitive examina-
tions in United States and England, have
proved what l asserted thirty years ago,
our girls ,oiH proce equals Of our boys, aghsn
giUcIt q fair chance. A newspaper, reflected
on our Legislature for not granting the
small pittaHce, TO give free tuition to our
gills, when so many editors had espoused
the cause, and only one or two opposed, and
perhaps ga small minority" of TIE people
only opposed. Mr.. Editor, if there were
only three men opposed, | would be proud
ii one of them. | think it possible | was
an advocate of equality in privilege-oppor-
tunity and practice in education of our
youth, before some of the advocates were
born, but never at public expense. The
State for her own veal, should see to it that
all her youth should have plain solid edu-
cation, in the primary branches, but there
her duty ends. Taxing the poor, the rich,
to educate boys or girls in the higher
branches, is not democratic, is not the peo-
pies government. Man has not only been
slow to recognize her (women's) real power,
and true position in the world, but labored
to keep her down.
The Pagan world denied to woman IA SOUL
the Christian world granted to woman a
soul, but denies her brains; modernists de-
MES her muscle and will, to show she has
claims to be our equal. | say, woman will
show TO all, that she will be not only an
equal, but will lead in most of the sciences
where mind and heart and application is a
demand. We, protesting to be Christians,
charge on woman as being the prime cause
of our fall; l insist as her friend, and |
have worked to that end, insist that she
should have a chance to lift up man from
his fallen state, by her example in humility,
resignation, patience, love and devotion to
our greatest cause. She can; she will.
She is gradually coming to the front. Not
as woman rights worshippers, but as teach
ers of our children, mothers, truest friends,
examples as Sc wants to the living God.
Woman rules best by their influence over
youth and in the family. Bondage to igno-
rance and the tyrant whiskey is broken. A
boy with brains and will cannot be kept
down. The greatest mea of the old United
States, before the corrupting influence of
rings took possession of the government,
were those who pushed themselves forward,
who crowded up the hill of acknowledgement
sons of Astors, Vanderbilts, Jay Goulds
and of that ilk. The day is dawning when
girls, with brains and wills, will push them
selves upward and onward, and give our
men examples of pluck, sobriety and all the
virtues. am an advocate of public schools
well, thoroughly taught; teachers devoted
to their work only, and with capacity; full
pay, and require full work. Leave highest |
education to the people who must and will
have it. Old Wing principles can tax the
many for the few. My family before 1776
and since were not of them.
ONE OF A "SMALL MAJORITY"