The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-16
A ssrOwl From Engiu nd.

tinted States writes 70 the London
 Times letter which he labels. "Thc
 Production Of an American" and in l which he makes an attack on our common school system of education and on our system of representative government. He oi.ccts 10 common school education because there k nCth ing taught in the schools that iS not directly and to the commonest per ccption available in making money. This central idea pi turning cduca- ton to pIsGticai account, he insists. prevails to a greater extent in the United States than in any other coun- try. The farmer boy goes 10 the dis trict school to learn ali that he can because he does not mean always 10 remain CT. 2 farm, and becaNsc he looks forward 10 money making business as teacher or merchant CT lawyer or doctor. He bends all his energies 10 get university cducGtion simply wit. lis profession or lis bu>i- ness in life Il. view.
 So it happens, this scribblcr says, that as a measure c; elevation of thc American people the rcwspapcr plays an important part. T,,c average Amer, ican, he declares. iS a very c.cjcg man but does rot reason, ..e only .codS his newspaper. As anything like c2snes, honest examination is unk,.0wn to these newspapers, protection is ur- hcsitatingl. accepted as q sound policy even as a part of political economy This last sentence lets the cat out If the bag. This alleged American cor respondent is either disgrunt,cd Englishman or Sn Anglicisc.i Ameri- can given over tO the frcc-tradc fallacy. His attack on our economical and political system follows as tl,c rcSul; of his being either an EngliShman or q irec-trader, but his attack on Orr common school system hctrays the superficial, man blinded r.. prejudice and asleep in the path Of ii, rrogrcs- -iyc movement oi the age.
 It is almost alrTsing t. lind that while the best thought ill England and America is turned toward practi- cal or industrial education, that we should find the London Times giving place to q communication written ior the purpose oi beiittlinG the practical educational movement i'll America The writers complaint is that Amer ican education :s used to help com mon people toward better life. He objects to our system for the very req son that most people approve Of ;t. He asks the English public to indict the Americans for establishing syS- ten that l; accomplishing or has ac- omplished what HI European nations are cndeavoring to accomplish, and it is gratifying to know that in an cdi- toria. the Times iisscnt- from the view as to the edu"ational system But the Tines decI;, ,,cs that the stand ard of culture in the United States is low. al ,d the .t; -idari oi political nlor- ,!ity not very high.
 As q commentary on both the Timc., editorial and the article it rl,bLsles as coming from an American cOrrcspond- ent, it is only necessary 10 point to the number of universities and col lege> that we have, tue numbcr of ripe scholars whom England nas been de lighted to honor, to the fact that tl-cre are more readers oi English classics in America than in any other coul,- try, and that recently the English universities have called from America scholars of the highest rank to take high places in their faculties. Eng lard has had good many years to reach her present standard, and yet, as to the practicat results of both our common school and our higher educa- ton, this country may challenge the older Aati.9iss for comp;-r sor. n gen. cral or ill detail. Chicago Inter. | Ocean.
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 County Court.