The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

GALVESTON, June 2s.-Third day of Teach
ers' convention Resolutions were adopted ia
voring the formation of local associations in
every county, city and town.
EX-GOv. Roberts delivered an address, and
Prof. Carrollton made an eloquent plea in IA
vor of taxation for schools, urging that eighty
per cent of the criminals are uneducated.
A number of new names were added 10 the
membership roll, and Prof. Rote read paper
on THE Teachers Work" The following
resolutions were reported by the committee ON
resolutions, and passed
That we heartily indOrse the constitu-
tOnal amendments submitted by the
Texas in advance of all other states; that we
recommend that each Justices district be
made school district; that we earnestly rec
Ommeud that the Office of commissioner of in
structiOn be created; that we recommend an
efficient system Of supervision be devised;
that we recommend the establishment OF
system of high schools, thus supplying the
missing link between lower and higher educa-
tiOn that we recommend that harmony be
cherished between all our educational lnst1-
tutes, public, private and denominational. A
resolution passed appointing a committee OF
live to frame general system of school laws
to be reported on at the next annual meeting
Mrs. Baldwin then read "a paper on "The
Spirit of the School Room"
Prof. A kayser, OF Tyler, presented the fol-
lowing resolutions
Resolved, That we, the members of the
state teachers association, hail. with true de
light the Inauguration of the state university
that we consider it the superior and crownlng
part of that grand system OF public education as
eXpounded in the constitution OF the state, OF
which the common schools are the basis"
The association then adjourned until
O'Clock tonight.
The Following is the programme for tonight's
exercises: First, address by Maj. j. b. Mer-
win, of st. Louis; second, "EdueatiOn without
moral culture curse" by Dr; Burleson, OF
This evening the delegates TO the state
teachers association were regaled by a. re-
getta between the Galveston and Protection
rOxnrir ffl-
The following new members enrolled their
names to-daw: Miss s. Strayhorne, Austini
Mrs. c. II. Weaver, Troupe; w s. Davis and
Mrs Millie Davis, Morris Station; Miss r.
Park, Miss s; Armour and Miss Daisy Laming,
Assbaae Meaa Mn Miss and Meekn Mrs and dSterMIlis Misss
Milton Milton Park, Mexia; Jay E. MeGirc' Bren, H.
ham. Miss Nellie Pitt, Galveston; II. c.
Rockwall; James NJ. Carlisle, " Nhitesboro; D.
G. Moore, Ennis; A. b. Price, Mckinney; Miss
Henrie WallisOn, Mrs. Maggie Barlow, Thorp
Springs; G. II. Smith, Huntsville; Mrs. K. A.
Huffmaster, Galveston; Mr., F. K. Hammond,
Centreville; Miss Lizzie Longilo, Sulphur
Springs:
bled at s O'Clock, President Franklin In the
chair. Prayer by DIR. Bunting, after which
Prof Lee sellers was vas introduced v ana reaa sa an
tion," graphically illustrating in his argument
how tile sciences could be taught so as to be
easily acquired Dy tuc pupil anu Iudb bcuOOlos
instead Of turning out mere book-wOrns, where
everything had been acquired by rOte, would
send out scholars whose heads, eyes, ears
and AND who aas enter upon the batte of lie fniy
equipped and would make practical, intelligent
and progressive men in all the varied depart
ments of life. He illustrated how practical
science could and should be taught, and was
followed by Prof. Crow, who ably seconded
the ideas and suggestions Of Prof Sellers.
His subject was .sThe Railroad as an Element
in Education and ably and eloquenfly
presented an -, argument In ,,lleI, which
RHowIedge S"s" Of the natural @ sciences the world
was indebted for its remarkable progress and
enlightenment In the past hundred years; that
for every demand there had been supply. A
electrical lighthouse an Edison-a steam ell
gine Watts-a steam vessel Fulton; that
this led to the grandest and most perfect de.
velopment of the human brain and secured
accuracy in all results, and the greatest ana
most useful of these developments had BEEN
railways which he held were great instructors
in morality and christianity, and had dOna
more to advance the cause OF religion than an
that Texas, through the beneficent and moral
izing effects OF her six thousand miles of rail-
way, was rapidly becoming one OF the most
enlightened and progressive states OF the I'm
ion, as the United States had become the most
enlightened and powerful nation on the face
OF the globe, which was directly traceaDie 70
clearly demonstrated that public schools were
fostered and upheld by railways-that they
were the promoters OF temperance and soDr1e-
ty among, the people and were doing more 70 for
prohibition than all the pr0hibiti0nists In the
Union by the discountenancing Of the
use of Intoxicating liquors by their
employees In conclusion he graphically
portrayed the railway future Of the northwest
and southwest, when the great nations Of Asia
would have all-raiI connection, via Behring's
strait. with Texas and the balance Of the
United States. II Is impossible to do Professor
Hogg's remarkable address justice by wire. He
concluded amid great applause, and was 70
lowed by Professor G0ss, who >eoH~
the audience bNN31@1,
as to how eloque1,
/ The assocl1
O'Clock f0-moI