The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-14
BLAIR'S TROJAN HORSE.
SENATOR GRAY WANTS 1T KEPT
OUT OF THE SOUTH.

several Similar Horses with SS,OOOb-
900 or $3,OoO,oOO in Their Belly
drought into this Part of the Coun-
try.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.--In the Senate to-
dav the Blair educational bill was taken up
ond a constitutional argument made against
= hv Mr.. Gray. Proceeding to criticise
come details of the BILL he pointed out that
rrovision which requires copies of school
hooks to be filed with the Interior Depart
ment.
Mr.. George statsd that he had opposed the
Insertion of that provision, and Mr.. Blair
stated that it had been inserted on motion,
NOT of friend, but OF an enemy OF the
hill the Senator from Kansas (DIr. Plumb.
Mr. GRAY said that it was sufficient for
bispurpose that that provision was in the
hill which was proposed to be passed, and
which was advocated by the Senators from
Mississippi and New Hampshire (Messrs
Caorre and Blair. What action, he asked,
.bould be taken by Congress when the Sec
ratarv of the Interior reported that the his
torv of the United States used
in Alabama or in Texas described the
warmth and national affection which
tbe people of those States have
for their kin in the great struggle
through which they had passed quarter OF a
century ago and did not refuse the need of
praise which the world was willing to pay to
brave men fighting for mistaken cause
WOULD RAISE A HOWL.
Would the Senator from New Hampshire
sit quiet and content, willing for the youth
of the South to learn from that history the
iVata n fqAHh2
one of those lately rebelliOus States dis
carded a book which ascribed the as
saSsnation of President Lincoln to so
called rebel leaders as he had seen it
ascrlbed in school books in common use
throughout Stases Of the North, would such
State receive the commendaton OF the Sen
ator from New Hampshire? That was one
of those questions which could be thrown
into Congress by report OF the Secretary
of tine Interior, and the waves of sectional
debate would run high on just such ques-
tions if this bill became law.
Mr.. George said he had found it to be a
safe rule of conduct, all his life, never to
cross a bridge till he came to it, and
not to trouble himself about difficulties
which had not arisen. Whenever an i'm
proper school book was attempted to be
forced on the people of Mississippi under
this or any other bill, it would be time
enough to meet that attempt.
WILL BE TOO LATE THEN.
Mr.. Gray-Oh, no That is just the point
to which | will direct the attention of the
Senator's. One year, or two years hence,
when the poison of this bill has been in
stilled into the veins of the people who have
received this money, it Will be too late to
take backward step.
In the course of his argument Mr.. Gray
asked what truth had been so clearly estab-
lished during the last century as this, that
the greatest measure of liberty and the
highest type Of citizenship and civilization
had been achieved and sustained ,by local
self-government. This was an educating
influence which the bill ignored and tended
to destroy, The common school system
itself was a product of self-government. He
quoted an episode in the school history of
Connecticut, as cited in the New York
Eceaing Posts pamphlet, to show the de-
moralizng influence OF outside school funds.
AN APPEAL TO sHE soUTHERNERs.
He appealed to Southern Senators and
asked them whether their knowledge of
human nature and their experience in life
instructed them that there was any reason
able hops that the people of their States,
after eighG years of demoralzing depend
ence on this golden stream from
the National treasury wouid again
declare for their independence, and would
thrust away the hand still held out to feed
them He asked them whether Senator
Blairs claim of power in this matter would
not grow and grow until it overshadowed
all other things. Even the Senator from
massachusetts,, Mr.. Hoar, had declared
that he supported the bill on the ground
that ignorance was a danger, ano
that it was within the power OF
the general government to meet
nral l. a I. ,.nI-0 4
such language meanl Did it not clearly
set up that great higher law to which the
Senator from Massachusetts would have
Southern Senators bow the knee:
MR.. GEORGE REPUDIATED 1T.
Mr.. George remarked that he repudiated
Mr.. Hoar's claim.
Mr.. Gray said he knew that the Senator
from Mississippi did repudiate it, but such
until the South would be unable to extri-
cate itself from its malign influence.
MIR. George asked whether the Senators
VINO repudlated such claims of power, and
who supported the bill on other grounds
should abandon their position because such
claims were made
Mr.. Gray did not mean to assert that; but
ne repeated that it was dangerous for
southern Senators to admit within their
states Trojan horse, filed with the de
Structve elements which the bill con
tained
Mr. George said he would like to have
several such Trojan horses brought into
~! us state, with Sl,000,000 or S2,0OO0OO IL
Ihe belly of each.
Mr. Gray had no doubt of that. The rea
99a9lnger to the republic, he said, was not IL
nllteracy, but in such bills as this, which
'y}l Were directed against the experiment oi
selt-gOvernment
\, Mr. Blair stated, in reply to portion Of
M Mr: trays speech, that in Southern States
winch contained one-third Of the population
ol the country, only $l7O00,000 was esti
mated as being expended for school pur
poses, as against $103 100000 in the whole
country He would hereafter have some
IE4lhg to say in regard to the New Yorl
Etenin9 Posts statistics. The bill wen
over as unfinished business, and the Senate
aC 200 o'clock adjourned till Monday.
DUTIES ON WOOL.