The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-02-26

her higher institutions Of learning public and private but where
her good public schoosi echo whereI Why has
she not provided schools for her children may
answer because she TOO poor Poor she is she is not too
poor provide for the support and control Of very large class
Of criminals many Of whom might have been saved her. by edu
eating them much less She is poor would
SEEM do without the fifty per Of increased productive
power which she might have attained and which would have
made her vastly prosperous Who auIt1
her intelligent citizens commencing with her educators who
seemingly have fully realized the necessity Of common
schools Her press has been at fault It's columns have been
filled with deliberately written articles advocating the establish
Of institutions Of learning Of high grades but where
the pleas for better schoos1 They have been few and
far between 1t that advocates enough be found
urge the appropnang of public money build higher ntu
tons Of doubtful necessity but the commonschoo advocates
seem lamentably few in number and weak in spirit
Educators Of Mississippi and conductors Of her press let this
no longer be Let ourselves to the vital mpor
and the grandeur Of the work Of giving universal elementary
education the rising generation, Let lay aside prva,
and pedudces need be- and advocate by pen and
this grand enterprise until such Pentecoa interest shall
be awakened among all classes Of Mssssppans that they will
be heard crying the Of their souls Men
and Brethren what further this great cause and
their voice shall be heard in the Halls Of the Legislature
handing the appropriation Of the first money and enough Of
~ vi ample elementary instruction for every child in the State
may be asked how her legislators obtain money ppro-
pirate such purpose would by economzing their
pendres for other uessng money for other educational
purposes beyond sustaining the institutions existing nceas
ing the another dollar upon thousand and borrowing
additional each year, TO be pad by the generation thirty
years hence which will have received the benefit of the
educational facilities, and which, by its increased productive
When the State has provided sufficient number good ele
mentay schools kept in comfortable shoohoues then every
child between eight and sixteen should be compelled by law
attend some school at least /oHr months year.
Finally the establishment and proper maintenance Of good
public Schools added to fertile soil and genial climate will
be potent influence to bring to State Of intelligence
with moderate MEANS able to buy up lands and make Of
them small FARMS which they and their families will live and
thus State with dense population Of indus and
intelligent property holders without which there can never be
any prosperity That such persons kept by
their knowledge of the fact that have good schools
is assumpon but is known be by the writer
emigrants.
State debt incurred for the establishment and support Of
good public Schools would in few years be cancelled by the
increased the State from the influx of weahpro
ducng population alone say nothing of what would from
the increased prosperity OF the State in other ways.