The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-09
EDUCATION TIE SOUTH.

Gradually the south is receiving, at the
hands of its sectional enemies, the vindi-
cation and justice due it. The great strides
in industrial development, the wonderful
material awakening has already been re-
ferred to and at length, not only in our
own columns, but in the leading p rints
throughout the entire south, and 1t Is I'M
necessary to call attention thereto further.
There never has been such boom in any
widespread section, looking at it from ma
terial standpoint, as the south has been ex'
periencing for months past. The busy
hum Of activity has been heard on all hands
and the world has learned that in the
Southern States of America there is a
field for investment presented no
where else. We have been, 1.-The northern
press, referred TO constantly in the
most uncomplimentary terms, have, in fact,
been regarded as the most bloody aud illit'
crate section of the Union, and all our
Efforts to offset such an opinion have
proved practically useless. One by one,
however. intelligent visitors from the north
and east have been among us, and have
| transmitted their views to their home jour
mails, and invariably they have been favor
able and complimentary to us, and the
beneficial result has been felt in better
tate of feeling in the north than has here
tofore ever been witnessed. There is a
greater disposition than ever before seen to
give us credit for what we have, to recog-
nize the fact that in the south are just as
intelligent and patriotic people as can be
found anywhere in the ssterhood of states
One of the most encouraging facts of the
nature referred to, is that. several intelligent
visitors from the north, professors and stu
dents in the school system of that section,
who have been through the southern stat es
within the past five or six months, and who
have studied carefully the common and
private school systems of the south, have
stated emphatically that while there are
not 50 many schools in the south as in the
north, those that we have are as thorough
and on AS successful basis as those in the
north. While We are Of course deeply in
terested in the matter Of factories and the
development of the material industries OF
the south, we cannot but be impressed with
the importance of the perfect development
of our school system. What we want now
in the south is thorough instruction
for our young, Such fact will give
greater promise of the future and serve
more directly to give us standing and ecat
in other sections than any fact that could
be writ@ up within our borders, and we
are therefore doubly gratiiied that the
northern visitors in our section, interested
in such matters, have spoken out so freely
and complimentary on this subject. AS
before suggested, the south is becoming APP
propriately indicated everywhere and, as
is her just due, is presenting to the outside
world Inducements and advantages for set
Element and Investment not presented at
present by any other section in the civil
lied world. Let our people but attend
properly to the intellectual as well as the
material development OF our section, and
this results of the next ten years will be n
matter futter establishment.