Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-21
RATIONAL CONVENTION.
h AID for Schools In the Various
h, speeches by Dr. Curry and
OthCrs

|, A,d for Schools In the Various
speeches by DIR. Curry and
Others.
|svjlle, September 20.--In the
|iopaI convention to-day twenty
Eates aud the District of Columbia
Fsoreseatel. Congressman Will
Kentucky moved the following,
we're referred to the committee
Buttons.
Mas, Certain measures were
|.before the last congress of the
Estates which proposed an APP
[AtiOn to be distributed among
|ytrAl states in aid of popular ed
|Esnd
|u,s, The measure provides
|hs distribution shall be made
term Of years, upon the basis of
ky and afterwards upon the
|gi school population; and
(treas, The measures to be eff
10 net claim for The Federal
|nuent the righ5 to control edu-
IN tue states, but to provide
Il ior handing over the amount
|fiatSd to the constituted au-
,kd the several states to be APP
! under state laws, and also re-
the states TO appropriate an
|atAual to what they receive
|NHgress;
klytd, That this convention
|learlily approve the adoption of
|Dasuie OF material legislation
EshaIl embody the principles set
|lathe foregoing preamble"
|lSion on the subject of federal
| education was then opened by
j. l.. NJ. Curry of Virginia,
Of the Peabody fund,
said the question OF
plaid to education was reducible
propositions: First, the basis OF
Fe government is intelligence
|he integrity Of our citizenship,
EOyernment is impossible Will
gnornt; the more education, the
liberty. The best government i.
which governs the least; mini
education is the maximum o
Ihlental restraint; oppression
ignorance go hand in hand. Ed
ol substitutes the teacher for th'
y, The school-house for the prison
SHOPS for a!mshouses. Second
Iersal education is, beyont
loV, impossible except throug!
inalental process and universe
a'loa has never existed eXcep
iourished by the government
'Nihe war the South was more il
Eetlan any other country in til
Y The superior education of Tia
|ss remarkable, out there ha
10 general education and n larg
FWtn OF The white people were il
|hole ignorance. Denomination
tsslloh can never effect the whol
Aaaily' The cheapest d,
1 OF the state Il
Fly and life is the education
rpl'ie. In The entire South ;
|.a Tue school fund is paid almo
NY | by the whites, yet it is di
|ssl equally 10 both white, an
W. All honor To Kentucky #
,Wsut action in putting the CHI
=, The two races on the san
4 Inc speaker had heard with i
'a'ule alarm that there was
states a movement TO divide Il
IL uA, so that tie whites shou
'snas lor their own children n,
us negroes raise their own fun
~ cOiored schools. Such acti,
M aOserlurn the educationalsy
Isoou'n and would eterni1e I
's a the negro. The South
III ,S ~ ollt and tillage are drea
W. My ONO TO the Gulf. Betwe
M na 1870 there was Il diniinuti
ib' .alue OF taxable property in
I'm VI The Southern states. Il
|sa.' was Impoverished by the W
In' Il presents no parallel TO its CO
slo,r ~ is0,, nor is there anything
\ So,,ssu olliher than the efforts
r. IN. . TO rise again. No PEG
IN - accomplished so much in
surm nnle @ilh so many obstao
a. s''ount, yet the illiteri
Il y ,,oa,h IL feasful. Thirty
sea,s Tue white population a
llsr5,..p pr cent. of the negroes
sls,s's Even Kentucky has AL
Its,a,s white voters and So
adiIIe,, c,loied voters. A simi
.ls ~, exists in all the South,
.e,s 4, mere are 1850. 900 Hitter
ss,de suc 3 lu,h WHAT has be
'ats. I'ne Ter the education
sss,a . very encours eing in its
'a.ls Eshol!d stimulate 10 gres
glo.s Inc emancipation OF
mas saddled the Sol