The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-16
Who Do, ID Not, Favor
a State Female College.

The State Teachers Convention, re-
Gently in session at jackson, voted IN
favor of coeducation of the sexes in our
University. and against university for
girls.
The State Grange adopted resolu-
ton which is 10 be presented to the Leg
islature. in favor of female college at
which tuition and board shall be fur
nished by the state free of expense to
pupils.
FpIToRs CLARION: The two para
CRIBS above, from the Summit Sentinel,
show in sharp contrast, those who do,
and those who do not desire State Fe-
male College in Mississippi. The Teach
ers' Convention according to their En-
rolling Committee, was composed OF
forty-seyen men, and four or five lady
teachers. of these, the Faculty of the
A. & II. College left Thursday afternoon
to meet the intelligent and progressive
Farmers Club of Madison county;
Others left early Friday morning, so that
on the final vote on DR. Wheat's resolu-
ton, endorsing co-education and oppOs-
ing u Female College, very few teachers
we're present. OF this number four or
five voted against the resolution, and
! the majority of those favoring it were
| men salaried by the State, lit might be
| Judging uncharitably to say, that had a
direct interest in G atting the sehool-fund
| legislated into tfteir 0Jca pockets or else
were interested in private female schools
which they Supposed perhaps a State
| Female College might injure. Some OF
/ Il frr IN,
sippi have expressed themselves as up
posed to co-education, and the small pro
portion which the so-called Teachers
Association bears to the great number OF
teachers in Mississippi is apparent.
The State Grange, the representative
association of the farmers, the great
body of the Taxpayers of the State, al
their session at Meridian recommended
that the Legislature take steps to estab
Esh a State Industrial and Norma
School for the white females of Missis
sippi. The women of the State. too
who pay large proportion of the taxes
who have passed their girlhood art
| womanhood in the trying times of the
| history of the State, those who have
only the good of their sex at heart, anC
no selfish purposes to subserye-thest
ask for separate State institution.
There is 10 demand from the womeI
of Mississippi for co-education. They
oppose it, not because they mistrus
their sex. They understand, better thar
any man can the capacity, the necessi
ties, all the strength, and many Of tn,
weaknesses Of women. There is no ne
cessity for co education, and if there ar
dangers attending the system land thi
reason teaches, and eminent educator
and psychologists attest) they would
plead that the white souled daughter
of the State be protected in their pu
ritv, and shielded at their mos
impossible and unsuspecting ag
from every breath of faint and con
tamination. Now, in our poverty, thu
only tenable argument for co-educatiol
is its economy, and where is the MAJ
who would save a dollar to the detri
ment of his daughter? If there is no
money enough in the State Treasury t.
even take steps" toward establishing {
State institution for girls, what has be
come of the taxes which the women o
Mississippi have been paying for year
and years? Perhaps we need another
Teachers Association to shape legisa
ton, or perhaps we need few more In
matte asylums.
A MISSISSIPPI WOMAN.