Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-24
FACES to remember.
OF RocKrNGHAM.


The Blair educational bill ap
propriated the surplus in the I. 5
reasary among the states for pub
lie schools.
Virginia's share Of the whole
amoant was liked at $3.50, 469.OS.
'.-iraa's share per amman for
1t iS4ipnlated was S7l2,O56.
of beets b Of Shenandoah county
aR9 awe bsen S53,3t2.6O.
tChe share Of 81 naudoah county
for each year wouId have been S.
liG.
This measure was opposed by
nearly all the leading Democratic
Senators. and the House OF Repre-
sen;atives With a Democratic ma
iority Of ~, refused even to con-
s,dcr It, bur smothered the Bill un-
.en t.uen-mass of others on the
Speakers table, from which it was
never lifted, although Congress
was in session for three months,
after the bill had been sent from
The Senate.
10 every friend Of education in
tie State this plain statement of
lactsis submitted for calm, I'M
preiudieed consideration.
True in every representation, we
do not think it necessary to recite
the blessings it would have carried
10 the youth of the country.
Enough, for rejecting minds to
to recur to the impoverished con-
dition of our Southern Country, and
the inability ofmany Of her people
to offer educational advantages to
their children. Enough, that this
Bill would have given, free and,
without prSce, such advantages to
all.
1t should cause men to consider
i,ih'oe wise longer to obey the
behests of a Party, whose whole
system Of political action is made
up of appeal to passion and preju-
dice and rekindling of sectional
strife.
By thwarting the wise purposes
Of the Republican Party in this re-
spect, they have arrayed them
selves as enemies of popular educa-
ton, and no more practical evil
dence could be had than in OppOs-
ing this Bill which would have do
mated the sum Of $3.50 for every
man, women and child in the State
of Virginia, to be applied to the
education of our youth.
Surely it is time to shake off the
letters which passion and prejudice
have forged. and with untrameled
footsteps join in the march of State
zahd National progress.
A glance at the number Of
schools in the State nnder bourbon
rale in SO. and the large increase
under Readjuster and Republican
rule in 1888, evinces that this
march Of progress is begun; it is
with the voters Of Virginia to say
If if shall cOntiuue-Or shall the
car be turned back into the old rut
Of apathy, and Indifference to po-
pular education!
let tine ANSWER DO given in no
way at the polls in
November next.
Let it De begpe in mind that this /
bill still lives. It is still on the (
Speakers tableand will have friends /
in Blaine and LOgan-enemies in
Cleveland and Hendricks. The
parties have plainly spoken in their
congressional action and party
platform5-the one for the bill,
and the other against it.
Fathers have no right to vote to
their children of this boon
of education. 1t is a moral and re-
ligious wrong.
Mothers should work for the
education Of their sons and daugh-
ters.
Only the merest towards can be
frightened by the bugabOo of mix
ed schools. The Blair bill in no
wise affected this, but leaves it for
each state TO control by its own
avs.
Read this and then hand it to
your neighbor to read. And then
give one day to the work of secur
ug general education for the chill
lren Of this generation.