The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-01
President Hyde Criticised.

is an authority on natural educational facts
and figures, has written the following letter,
which was published in the Boston Tran
script:
If we are to have the scholar as a perman-
ent factor in politics, it would seem to be i'm
portant that he should display, at least, two
attributes OF genuine scholarship: First,
correct knowledge of his subjects and second,
a more than partisan fairness in the estma-
ton OF parties. In his late demonstration
in behalf of President Cleveland and the
Democratic party, President Hyde of Bow
dom College. Maine, has exposed himself as
sadly deficient in both these valuable.quali-
ties. He arraigns the Republican party for
wasteful extravaganza" on the ground of
the support of the Blair bill for national aid
to education.
When President Hyde saws "a Republican
Senate passed this bill, providing for the ex-
penditure of S79,000,000 to do work which
the almost unanimous testimony of educa-
tlonal experts declare could be done more
wisely. and benefcially without single
cent OF FEDERAL aid" his imagination OBJ
scures the two most prominent facts in the
case
First the Blair bill, at every passage in the
Senate, has commanded the votes of the en-
tire delegation from the eleven ex-Confed-
erate States, which most need Federal aid.
with the exception of the two Senators from
Texas, Morgan Of Alabama, Harris of Ten
nessee, and Butler of South Carolina. To
this minority of five was added this year,
Bate, the late Republican governor of Ten
nessce, making the vote at present % yeas,
nays, in the eleven States where the great
est peril from illiteracy is located.
lt there is measure before Congress, un-
partisan In It's character, deserving to be dis
cussed on its merits, it Is this; and, SO far, it
has been kept outside this vortex, notwith-
friends and enemies to misrepresenf II.
When President Hyde asserts that the sal
most unanimous testimony of educational
experts Is opposed to the Blair bill," he
either falls into the common fallacy of deny
ing the competency Of educational authori-
ties who differ from himself; or he betrays
singular want of information on the state of
opinion. In fact, the Blair bill has been
three times carried through the Senate on
!ne repeated petition and by the persistent
influence of great majority of the educa-
tlonal experts of both sections of the cOun-
try, expressed in all legitimate methods.
The majority of educational experts" op-
posed to the Blair bill are opposed to the
American common school system, and the
common school public, North and South, is
overwhelmingly in its favor. II President
Hyde will read the last report of the Nation
al Bureau of Educatson, he will see that
while the seven Atlantic Southern States
tax themselves for common schools per-
centage of their valuation, only a fraction of
mill below that of his own State Maine
has 9S per cent of her children between six
and fourteen in average attendance in COM
mon schools, while her Southern neighbors
have not more than 90 per cent. in schools in
session not over four months in the year,
taught by instructors who work for salary
for which good teachers cannot be obtained,
save in exceptional cases. Ii this Is a situa-
ton for college president in New England
to be satisfied with, we should say 'the
scholar in politics" is not the eminent sue
cess the people have right tc expect
poti<i~ al Nofes
I'll twist the British lions TAIL
I'll make the Canucks fear me;
We've got to fish and tney cut ba1t-
By lingo, boys, you hear mel
III YOU will all stand near me,
And capture every Irish vote
By lingo, boys, you near mel
III crush the Senate at a blow,
And those who always jeer me;
I'll make it break it's party's neck,
By jingo, boys, you near me!
had not thought to call a turn
That would as this, endear me,
But Providence protects lts own,
By lingo boys, you near mel
Now let us all rejoice and sing,
And Democrats come near me;
IL come back you take the earth
BY lingo, boys, you near me
Washington Critic.
1. G. Libby. ESQ, who had represented
Burnha1 class in the legislature for the two
wears mast was offered the nomination for
Senator on the Republican ticket in Waldo
county this wear but declined to take ii as he
expected to be away from the state during
the coming winter. But his friends are de.
termined to make him law maker and so