The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-20

The st. James Journal calls the $50. OO(
building asked for by the Mankato nor.
NAL school as ladies' hall, q "hennery
attachment" That is very good name
indeed, but II the money is voted by the
legislature, the name should be changed
To "Gosling receptacle" and every mem.
Der voting for it be sent there Waseco
Radical.
Call it what you please, it matters lii.
tie, so the halls are Guilt, and the teach.
ers given place to do their hugging in
private.-& James Journal.
For some time these two veritable
donkeys have been braying their most
discordant notes in opposition to the ap-
preparations asked for the enlargement
of the Mankato school, and, in truth, to
the normal school system in general, but
no one has given their i'll born utter
ances any notice, because considered too
insignificant for popular recognition.
When, however, they reduce their stock
Of rottenness to so low q strata as the
above quotations are made up of, and
attempt to sling the virule dregs of their
putrid souls over people too honorable
and refined, and Of too high standing
to suffer even thought Of a comparison
with those editorial cesspools, il 10 high
time for word of condemnation from
the public press, and others vino have
enough of common decency and moral
and intellectual calibre, to appreciate in
situations that are doing more TO elevate
the science of pedagogics, and to render
to the common classes Of the state the
advantage of proper intellectual training,
than those smart Alexis ever conceived
of, even in their most suspicious mo-
ments. If they have any rational argu-
ment, whatever, let it be ever 80 limited,
why the Normal schools should not be
sustained, let them advance il like men,
and in at least semi-manly manner.
We are ready and willing to entertain it.
But when they confine their hostility to
statements .untruthful, and utterances
so insulting, then every admirer Of fair
ness, and those interested in the main
tenance ofprivate character, can but pro-
nounce it the fruit of minds too base for
anything better, and brand the origina-
tors as entitled to the severest reproach
that can be heaped upon them.
In the first place Mankato has never
asked for q ladies' hall nor no one has
ever contemplated such an institution. |
The improvements needed, and for
which an appropriation has been asked,
is the enlargement OF the working capsci-
ty of the building used absolutely for
school purposes; need long felt and
which must be supplied to insure the |
growth and advancement which the pres
ent patronage ofthe institution warrants.
The friends of the school ask no support
from these slanderous GROWERS, but
they do object, and that smphatically,
TO being 80 misrepresented and ma
ligned. The opposition which these in
situations met in their earlier days has
gradually passed away, as the schools
had opportunity to demonstrate their
worth, until it has found a. last resort In
the picayunish minds Of a handful of
such parties a. fathered the quotations
given above, and, thanks the good sense
and noble support of our young state,
have acquired foothold too permanent
10 be uproetsd BY sush small Try. !