Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-17
safes is subordinate and must yield to
thia HuperIOr nOMer Whanerer and

Fided for ia this Gill carries with it &
| clear, absolute confession by those who
support 1t that the subisct IS within the
national jurisdiction, auc, being so, that
the nstionsl government In its discretion
may, il 1t chooses, occupy the entire
| Held, take full charge aud control Of and
wholly maintain sDd support sud admin
lister the common SCHOOLS Ct the states
II the duty rests upon the national
government 70 taEe hold Of this subiscs,
sand save TIE life OF the ns1iQn'' by sex
| tlrnatiDe illitsrscy," IS the friends Of
this bill c.etCi, they muat remember ;ha'
| II there De such duty, there must be g
corresponding power, Scr without the
power there could Be no obligation q
| duty. and the power existing, and being
necessarily paramount and supreme, that
| he state jUrsdicji@n must retire before
I and yield re s,tire eGGca' i0ndl faid 10
the nattouel authority when, yer it is
claimsd. The y sage Of This Gill VIII
bring this cCLCl1siCn Sc il, vitality SO
logic c4n 90 it, s ii is acceptance bv the
states will De .. longest SIR d. toward s
centralized conSpl dlej, pet.r1al goT-
ernmant ever tzkeD since he constitu-
ton WAS adopted. / Is 10 be hoped that
The good sease aGd patriotism Of the
2eop!e q Il.s country Will reisct The
Gl,tl' i9a 1r;he Is Cffess aad avert the
ca nifty Oi IS passage.
! oppose IBIS bill, NJ. President. not
oRly b-c46se Gifts u1coDsti,uti IA! inter-
fere vim { suol-ct belonging 10 the
sole an3 exclusive jurisdiction # the
states, and will establish . construction
OF the constitution which, IN The Ian
gage Of BIr. Majison, will throw under
to6 power Of CIR grts IS every suti3ct CT
sat- concern, "from the highest obiecs
Of state legislation down - the most
minute Object Of police" TO the utter
overthrow Of the theory Of & dual govern
ment, an irdisscluble union OF indes,rocr-
IDLE states, with the Jurisdiction, powers
and duties Of each Clearly defined and
closely guarded, on which cur cor stitu-
ton is built, but because as a measure
OF policy it is unWise and iIexEedient,
and full CT mischief SIS isctor IL the
politics Of the country, into which i will
plunge the common school eystems Of the
states. The argument in support Ct the
eXppUl,rcV OF Ihis bill IL predicated
which show 4.7l5,395 illiterates over ten
JSciS "a age III tEe cIAteSH OIu sieve
states.
These figures are hsrped upon uuceas-
ingly by the friends OF this bill, but thy
do not alIude 20 the feet that Of this num-
Der p 96l, 1911 sre aGut bites and blacRs
over twentY-one years Of age, who Of
course, being beyond the SCHOOL age,
should rot be estimated in making pr0Yi-
sion for the "eXtiIpatiCn of iliiter9CY"
The number who might possibly b be0e-
fted are the illiterates oetWeen ten and
twenty-ore Yeas OF sge, who numbered,
according TO this report, 1854 1924. When
from this number is DEDUCTED, as should
be G0Re, say one-fiiJh, to~ represent those
wb0, between tbe Sges OF seventeen ard
twepiy-oDe, would never have attended
school, we have in 1880, When this re-
port was made, 81 ,220 durable ilIite-
rstes. This analysis gives some little
idea Of the extent Cf The evaporation
which has been INDUCED in by the adYo-
Gates of this bill.
S nee 1880 the NEST marked and re-
markable feature in the almost pheUome-
nal development and progress of the south
has been the growth aGd Improvement CT
the common schools Of that section.
These have OutstTipped al the other evi-
dences OF advancement, and ere to-day
under the iniGenCe IF public sentiment
more keenly alive than eyer befora to
their importance, having & more rspid
growth IN excellence and extent lhaa at
aDy former time. So far IS iliiteracy III
the south ia durable it is safe to say that
it is rapidly decreasing under the benifi-
cant influence Of & constantly improving
system Ct common schools, and tk&t in a
few years II will substantially disappear,
If. these schools are not interfered with
have before me pamphlet issued from
the Office OF the New YORK Evening Post,
containing G number of pole editorials
which have appeared in the PCst, from
one OF which read. Says the writer:
LESS than 5 per Gent. of all the inhabi-
seuts above tue age OF ten years in maine,
New Hampshire or Vermont, in either
1870 or 1880 were unable to read, and get
the official records show that the average
length OF the school year between 1860
aud 1870 was only 10 days in Vermont,
SO in Maine, and 81 in New Rsmp5hire,
while in eight Of the sixteen old slaVe
states schools are now open 100 or more
day s, and in only three states less tnsr
seventy five days." II schools like these
keep down illiteracy 10 per cent. in
those states, may We not reasonably hope
with our schools to reach the same re-
suits, especially in view OF the following
statement, which I read from the same
editorial:
"For example, South Carolina aud Ten
nessae increased the amount devoted 10
this purpose Common schoolsl between
1880 and 1854 by nearly 80 per cent;
Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Virgins,
and West Virgins almost 40 per cent,
ard Arkansas ard Texas considerably
more than 100 Ter cent. The states OF
the south being agricultural and sparsely
settleG, can not, If course, show such
results in their schools as densely popu-
lated and wealthy states, such rs Massa-
chusetts and some others can show, but
although their common schools were COM
uepced only about twenty years sgo,
they will hear e most favorable compsri-
son with the sChoois CT Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont, which, Ike
tie II, are also agricultural states whose
school systems, however, have been in
existence for three-qusrters OF a century.
"Our schools are growing, eXten ding
and improving. Not stationary, IS ia
many Of the other states. The great
MESS CT illiteracy in the touth is among
the adult negroes, who cannot be reached,
but The generation growing up, white
and black, are being educated in some
states perhaps better than in others, but