The Red Cloud chief., 1885-06-26

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The Presidsa; has appoinssi ZACH
ariah Montgomery. Of California. As-
sis,sn, Attorney -Geu-rsi 70, the In
terror Department. and b, has done i;
with full knowlsdsc Of Moussomcry's
bitter opposition 10 the pabiic schon's.
The fricnds of the public school sys-
;rfu. under IN. lesd.rship o. Justice
Fl~ld. protested ;o the cA,iorrey-Gencrai
and to the fr-ssd-n, tha, TO ap;Sosn,
Montgomery. particularly 20 III. DE-
psrimeni which alonc toaehes the cora-
mrn-school system. 30 far az the bed
erai Government has any relations ~.sh
the schools. would be ,n,sFprr;-d hy
the friends os the public schools as
defiance I'm the other hana. IL wss
represented that Tn r-:usc tho comnis-
siou o. Montgomery for no othtr
reason than iha, ~ /. an advocate II
education under the influence os the
taiholic Church mich, invite the an
tagonlsm ot another class. and that
thi> other class Is one in which 70 found
. large percentage of The Democratic
voters
IL Mas Mr. Justice Field who with
drew from the .Congr-s.sonAl Library
the only pamphlets witt by Mont
somery upon the school question which
the library possessed. and these psmph-
lets. carefully marked and accompany Z
by verbal explanations. were presented
io the President The Prvslden; exam
in.d them. and the inference Of eoursr.
from the delivery Of the comm s.son To
Montgomery i, iha, the President is
more afraid To Offend the Catholic. than
the fro;e,tants. and is indifferent
whether the public school system 10
broken up by fspal Influences or not
The Attorney General and Mr.. Mont
gomcry were Catholic schoolmat~s in
kentucky. Mr.. Garland =; that time h~iny
thirteen years of age and Mr.. Mon,gom-
cry nineteen. The latter i, now fifty-
nine. In that long interval IL is ssid
that the two classmates have seidom
heard Of each other. and that 10 WAS
only since March 4 that Mr.. Garland,
incidentally inquiring o! some Cslifor-
mans who were applicants for ofiice n
TO the whereabouts of one Zach Mont
gomery. iir.t learned in recent years ~
the location and condition of his old
school-frllow.
This app"intment II q rsbid enemy of
the public schools gives serious o,..n.e
to the American element Of the DEMO
cratic party. and especiall, To the mug
wump faction Their chief organ. the
New York Tunes. thus comments upon
IL:
MONTGOMERY. nLuNpEE
"Mr. Zachariah Montgomery. who
has ju,t been made Assistant Attorney
General for the Interior Department.
has gained his unfavorsble opinions
abou, the common-schooi system. not
through ih. pcrycrs ~ bu, by the nat
nral shallowness and imbccility. of his !
mind
The process by which NJ Mont |
gomery reaches his witl-ss conclusion |
Is extremely simple. He takes . slate. /
pencil. and the census tables lie |
discovers that there are more common |
schools and fewer illit-rate. in the New |
England States in proportion TO the |
population than in the Southern States. |
He piers on. and presently ind. that !,
according TO the census return. Of 1850 |
the New England States had. with !
their 300. COS Of people. :. $50 crirni- |
nails in prisons. while the Southern |
States had. with 3cO.O0 Of whites.
comparatively unleti.rei. only 4.7 In |
prison. or. IN other words, tn. Ne1 !
England system hal one native born |
white criminal O. every i.OO persons.
while the Southern Sisi~s had but one ]
TO every $500. or six times as many. in |
proportion to the population. In New /
England as in the South.
Asccrtaining that the census Of 1880 /
confirms this startling proof IL the |
of she highly educated New
Englanders. Mr.. Montgomery po-its /
the Affirmation tha, the common school 1
system IL making too large a class of 4
criminals and law breakers among ih.
rising generation. and that !; ough, to /
bc broken up. The tolcrably well-knowu
fact tha, up in New England they have
= habit 81 catching their criminals and
putting them IN prisons whee they can |
be seen and counted by the census
W hile in the free and-easy-
gong South they hang or shoe, of-band
a good many oi tn. worst offenders and
1T very much larger number OF the
common sort Of rnsiefsctors escape pun
ishment altogether. would doubtless
have suggested itself to a more open
and active mind than that Of the new
A;;orney-General for the In.
terror Department n condition mate
rally modifying this calculation In
fact. up-esiiag 4 utterly A little com
mon schooling would be an excellent
thing for Mr. Montgomery. Chicago
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