The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

show. Increase tho number of his
children to four or FIVE and you readily
SEQ what hO gains. (Though there is
no necessity in this latitude for further
encouraging tho raising Of uneducntcd
children. We propose to encourage
tho raising of educated childron.) Now
the Tux helps tho man who has no
children at all. Such mnn is always
fond Of his ncighbors children. This
affords him n wise, sensible, practical
way of helping those children at tho
least expense.
Q Public schools nro tho cheapest.
Organization ngninst no organiza-
ton. System against no system. Where
public schools arc supported by sui.
ficient tax thoy become the cuntroliu q
schools, because thoy nro more Of
iicient than all others. 1t would seem
unnecessary, where public schools ex.
ist as they do here by organic law, to
enter upon any argument to sustain
them. However, we prefer to do so,
as VIC desire them to abide in the af.
fections and judgments of tho people.
Teachers associations, conventions,
institutes, and reading circles are all
the ontgrowth Of tho public school sys.
tenn. Tho annual examination of
teacher, properly conducted, is calcu-
lated to raise the professional stand.
ard. In these and the teachers various
meetings the beat results are held up
as models for the imitation of all.
3. Public schools the only means for
the education of tho masses.
When pny schools wcrc resortcd to,
ono third to one hnlf tho people were
unable TO send to school. Tu-
ition was necessarily high, and sparse.
ly settlcd neighborhoods had no schools
at all. A much greater proportion Of
the people grew mp illiterato than now.
4. Public schools arc necessary to tho
prascrvation'of republican Institutions.
This proposition Ia solf.ovident
How often lavo We lnre scon com.
mnnities nnd municipalities, when illit-
crate and uneducated, plundorod OF
sums sufficient to have educated those
constituencies up to tho standard of
the most enlightened people Of the
world Republican institutions nre
not safe uhcre unprinciplcd and de-
signing dcmngogucs have an illi,erato
and Ignorant population TO play npon
Homo property had better consent to
tax to maintain that systcm of gov.
ernmcnt vhreby it receives its princi-
PM value.
9TH. The duty Of tho State to edu.
cato. 1t ia easier 10 educate than to
bnild jails, penitcntiaries, employ bail
ifs, sherifTs, judges and iurics. II
certainly mnkeS aplensAntor state of
society, whore tho people nre educated
to obey tho laws because it 10 right,
than because they nre forced to.
9th. What do We associate ourselves
in n governmental capacity fori To
protect life, property and the pursuits
of happiness, This rcqulIos code
Of laws and officers for their execution.
Hence comes in the okpenscs of gov
ernment, and the taxes necessary to
meet that expense. We are rome.
times asked who is benefited by tho
tax. and II 1t is right to tnx one man
10 educate another mans childf ia
not good men who break tho laws.
All taxes nro lowed that tho law abid
ing may be protected from tho inroads
aud entertainments of the unruly and
law defying, A law abiding man. so
fa- "a himself ia concerned, needs to
pay no taxes to prevent himself from
breaking tho law. All taxes nro paid
for tho benefit Of all. The benefits
inure principally and primarily to the
property owners OF tho country. The
increase in the value of property Is
theirs. Tho general security, and free.
dom from crimo ia to their benefit.
Shortness VI the terms. Orr schools
at present nrc for hut four months on
the average. These foar months &C.
eomplish much good. The eight months
the child Ia out Of school much Of tho