St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-21
Matrimonial Herd Books Will
Remove All Occasion for
Divorces.
Mothers to Be Rewarded and
Honored in Their Chill
dren.
A School Fund That May Be
Valued at Thirty Million
Dollars.

NdutdStS, SIG cACciS. uG COuiLl9 SICdt
reform looked for and needed in the
system of education will probably be
furnished by Dakota. The first, most
natural, and legitimate school teacher is
the mother. 1t is at her knee the first
impress and stamp is put on character,
the first mould given to Christianity
or infidelity. 1t is here that sentiments,
pure or impure, are first heard. All the
first and tender years are spent here,
and the young spirit first meets the
world with his mothers stamp on his
heart and mind. Give US the right
KIND OF MOTHERS,
and the world and future generations
will take care of themselves. Just think
for moment the position a mother oc-
cupies. 1t doesn't make any difference
whether she can read or write, whether
she is high OF low. pure or impure-nat-
ure places her in the position of guide
and counselor. If the blind lead the
blind. what is the reason they are not
all going to fall in the ditch together?
Educate the guides and the followers
will have no trouble. Dakota contains
about $50 square miles of territory.
There are two sections in every town
ship set apart
FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES,
or one eighteenth of the entire territory,
making the handsome little amount of
5,333, 1888 acres of land-think of it
5, 1913 33333 acres-not dollars. Some of
this land, lying adjacent to large cities
and in well settled districts, would sell
very readily for $25 per acre. This re-
serve can't be used till Dakota is adj
mitted as state. 1t is safe to estimate
that these school lands OF Dakota will
bring by the time they are ready to sell,
S3O,000,0OO. If there is more magniti-
cent fund back OF education on this
earth, who has it? See what it would
bring, lat only 81 per acre. Pretty nearly
S5,500,OO0. Ii had the law and power
in my hands to regulate and direct the
education OF the country, would
EDUCATE EVERY FEMALE
in the land. and no woman should be
eligible to marriage without she could
produce certificate from an institution
amount of learning and true education,
qualifying her to take the high and eX-
allied position as a wife and the head of
family. | would pay at least as much
attention to the care and advancement
of the human race as that of horses, cat
tie and sheep. Every girl should be a
graduate, and at the time of her gradua-
ton public registry should be made Of
her moral character, her habits, health
and disposition. In other words, [
should simply
KEEP A HERD BOOK
of the family, and if man wanted a
wife, instead of having having some
girl without principle, education, health
or religion get trusted for a dress, Dor
row diamond ring, bang her hair, and
make "mash" on him in the street,
and after he had lived with her about
twenty-five years, and paid doctors
bills, and buried lot of consumptive
children, wake UP to the fact that he
had drawn blank prize at street
lottery, would have it so man or a
woman could go at matrimony in a bust
wanted wife, instead of having one
wave a handkerchief at him
on the street, | would have it so he
could go and get an
ABSTRACT OF HER
the same as anything elSe-Or, more
properly speaking, her pedigree. |
would have it so he could find out
whether he was getting ShOrthOrn, a
Jersey, polled Angus OF Berkshire,
and, after he married her, he would live
with her; there would be no divorces.
They sign a contract 'for better or for
worse" and they would take it as
the found it and what they made it
for themselves. With class of pure
educated mothers of this kind, holding
the destiny of future generation in
their hands and hearts, think what it
would be. Instead OF getting up what
is called an agricultural fair and having
one carry in lot of Speckled pullets,
another lot of black pigs with curly
tails, another pumpkins and squashes-
and so on, till a fOrty-acre
field was filled up with horses,
cattle and machinery; then having a
lot of privileges sold to gamblers to
ing gum and throwing balls at rag
babies; instead of any Of this trumpery
l would have grand convention Of
mothers, ana have them bring all the
children and exhibit them, and
instead of having an amphitheater
filled with lot of roWdieS
betting on horse race, 1 would have a
grand exhibition of mental and physical
attainmentS of the children, conducted
by the mothers-nOt hired teachers, but
the mothers-the real genuine mothers
and the woman who could show the
best developed number of children in
health, brains and muscle of her teach
ing and training at home, award her a
premium of ~
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
and crown her queen of the county;
and if the old man had anything to do
with helping her in the good work,
bring him out of box stall and read
his pedigree. Register him in the herd
book, so if the children ever wish to re-
fer to their sire they could do SO.
The way things are running now makes
a mans hair stand On end to think of it.
The channels leading into poorhouses,
penitentiarieS, aSylumS and hospitals of
the country are broader and longer
than the Mississippi and Amazon,
which lose themselves in the ocean.
And the honest, industrious labOring
man is paying taxes to support ignor-
ance and vice. The man in the tenpin
alley is voting on all-important ques-
tions of law and reform, while the in
telligent, virtuOuS mother, wife and sis
ter are shut out.
The reason why think great reform
is going to
START FROM DAKOTA
is, all the elements seem to be right for
it, and force things in that direction.
While Dakota has an array of school
houses which would be credit to any
country, or community; while her pres
ent educational system is equal to that
of the best state in the Union and while
she has the foundation for school fund
unsurpassed, still there is need which
can only be reached under the most
favorable circumstances and through
natural force in some way.
Dakota winters seem to offer
this opportunity. While there are
plenty of school houses. the blizzard
leads the mother to think she had bet
ter instruct her children at home and
take no chances on their being caught
out in storm. You see here is where
nature gets right
BEHIND THE MACHINE