The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-01-25
What Mississippi i, Doing for Her
Boys-What Has sho Done for
Her Girls7

EDrron CLAhroN: In a recent address Of
Gen. 8. D. Lee in regard to the A. & NJ.
College, he stated that one hundred dollars
was sufficient TO defrsy all the expenses of a
student for one year. Many students, ty
their own labor, paid at least half of their
expenses. What grand opening for poor
boys in the rural districtsl
| A boy with sound constitution end in
dustrious habits can obtain ten dollars per
month, with board, as a farm hand. In
twelve months he will have accumulated one
hundred and twenty dollars. By his own in
dustry he can obtain an education at Stark
villa. So much has Mississippi done for
! her boysl Let us SEQ how times are with
her poor, ambitious girls.
| In the rural districts, as a form hand or
help about the home, she can obtain five
dollars month, and at the end of twelve
| months she will have accumulated sixty dol
lars, or just half the amount of the boys
wages. She wishes to obtain higher ed
| ucation. What has the state done for herr
"What College will give her board and tut
ton for years wages. She is only
womaR-what business has she with a1nbi-
ton" Let her plod on and BE content
with few months or year in the public
school !
There are some men who have an ambi-
ton to form public opinion, who say that
State Industrial Academy will do the
poor no good! They argue, the State can
not sducatc all, why should she educate
| anyf where ignorance is bliss, it's lily to
be WISE" ia the creed of these logicians.
Strange, the Legislature did not think of
this when she appropriated monies to Ok
ford, Starkville, Alcorn, Tougaloo and State
Normal School! We're they SO ignorant
as to think that they had provided for the
| education OF every boy in the State? These
colleges which arc only educating portion
of our male population, let us tear them
down. Let US take these appropriations
and create a perfect system of public
schools! Let us give our county superin-
tendents fat salaries! Let us have coinpul-
sorry education and force everybody's bows
and girls to go to school together. This is
liberty, equality, fraternity Vive Missis-
sippi! IL we judge some men by their
acts, this is their creed; il they were wo-
men how ridiculous they would seem. Oh,
what multitude of shortcomings a pair
of pantaloons will covert
State Female Academy! Where are
all of the good church schoolss Oh, what
futter among friends of UNCONVENTIONAL
schools! Be at rest, good friends. The
proposed Academy will not take single
scholar from one of your institutions. Our
needs are great aud there is plenty of room
for you all. How can an Industrial Acad-
envy, where students arc taught no art,
science, or trades, to enable them 10 make
a living, possibly conflict with collie
giate course of education! 1t will iniurs
no good school, but will enable many poor
girls to obtain remunerative work.
There is class of men who oppose this
Academy. These men strut around the
streets drinking, smoking and talking about
other peoples affairs. They say, my wife
shouldn't do this or that"-trace them
home and but too often "my wife" is doing
drudgery that he would not dare exact of
servant. The money he squanders is
often her earnings; his immaculate shirts
are washed by her hands. Tho food he
eats, she cooks, and not unfrequently she
blacks his boots! "My wife shouldn't work
on a salaryr' No, indeed!
The old fogies are opposed to a State In
dustrisl school. They tell us of good old
times when gallant men worshiped at the
shrine of lovely women and decked her
IN jewels and lace, and they have vague
idea that the wheel of fortune will turn
and put Us in the same stage of society ss
existed thirty years ago. Alas, these old
fgies are asleep, and If they could awake
would DO as much discontinued as Rip Van
Wrinkle.
There is yet smother class OF men who
hsve come under our observation who claim
that women should have all the rights of
men under the law, yet they never are
caught doing anything more than little
pretty talk. They make pretty little
speeches a. banqu.ts, sdvoeats worSsn's