The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-23
PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION
SCHOOL BOOKS.
OFF
HON. JOHN E. MONNOT.
Mr.. MoNNoT SAID: (:

only this but of all the states which carved out Of the
Northwest Territory Even before the passage Of the
provision had been made for the support of schools in this
The Ordinance asertaining the mode Of dsposng of
the Territory adopted by the Continental Con
ships miles square and reserved section sixteen in every
Pnbo iii G1 Schools Within the townships This reser
ed may be said to have been the endowment OF the schools
elementary education to the door Of every family
The condition the calling and the service Of the great mass
early settlers of the State held them apart from education
was the privilege but il the glory time that
heritage of all Instead educated class have made
good @ 3 an e of planting
settlement in Ohio In 1900 there were but souls
1885 the whole Of school youth Ol8 of which
5 o e S % h
ton 262S school teachers at an expenditure of So a.
control school houses Of the total value including grounds
of OO5O and in 1885 they expended for all purposes
Of What noaouable good for evil the
body of teachers and their pupils With how much concern
sc6ools How the apple eye ought guard and
them need not remind you that on these schools de-
Strength and stability of our domestic institutions
the Business Of the eounryboth public and carried
individual speaking in general terms will be in state
efficient activity very few in existence In the United
States Senate to-day there not man who was there thirty
who there when the war cosed but one man
The children yesterday the of to-day and the of
the % Children Of to-day Our rights will enforced and
duties these very children whose minds
their earliest and most durable impressions from the
24,628 schoomasters of the State ,,
What then, is there among all of social and domestic in
stuoq Of more powerful and extensive operation on the
Grafton at our hands in this centennial year birth? 1t
should be constant aim to strengthen the public schools where
ghed weaknesses of the system should be discovered and
The proper applied Is school system de
ecve May srenghened So where the defect and
That the present ever changing unstable system select
ing and adopting textbooks is great weakness as well as
Under the present methods township has one series of text
books another has second and thrd s another @ and next @
books will have been exchanged for and the exchanged
the qualities essential requist of good series textbooks
the New Jerusalem Pupils study now this book that's
have kind some another and some ata because
tn music of the changes continually being made parent
be must supply his children with complete school
Teachers from school to another in each they find
different series OF books and CONFUSION rens supreme mus
expense added to the Generalization and confusion that al
That these periodical changes work nothing but HARM all
agreed What shall be the remedy Plainly what is needed
of the State which cannot be changed by the whm of
ofhghy paid school book agents and had
o oge 3 pef s "V will add Stability and unoFmy to
the school sysem teachers will become more efficient
ed and its and usefulness increased and extended This
them the object of the bill before yOu and these are some of
It has urged that this and untred experiment
smpraccabe But Mr. Speaker if this is qnted expert
emen who oppose propose something That mas been tried
something that is visionary something that practical?
Grafton passage of the act providing for the
publication of the reports of the Supreme Court This Statute
Sec 49, I'm lieu of the letting, and printing and binding
of the reports by the aforesaid the Secretary of State
when and thereto authorized by resolution of the
@ m fnh te material and to print and bind in the manner
all respects and with the expedition provided in the chapter
ply the with three hundred and fifty copies at cost not
eeng and fifty cents per yome and the demand of
the citizens of this State at cost not exceeding one dollar and
It is emnenty right proper the State provide for
publication of law reports by contract and regulate their
the lawyers from the nordnate greed Of
the combination How much more right and proper Will pc
provide for the publication of school books by
contract and regulate their pce Formerly the lawyers paid
they published under contract with the State and the
price is fixed by LdD at S175 per volume Here is book
bound in sheep and the law says publishers not
charge the lawyer price exceeding S75 and we now
United States History and price school children s7O
If the State Justified in interfering and regulating the price of
erng and regulating the price of s referring to the school
able to themselves than the school children of the
No. Mr. Speaker this not untried experiments the
ns the benefits All that propose to do to extend it so as to
books The plan has been weighed in the balance
Again It urged that the idea ofhavng commission
the textbooks which shall be used in all the schools
of the State mpraccabe and visionary Cleveland it is said
set of books and Cincinnati another and it is urged
But Mr. Speaker this usexacty whashould not be permitted
and this freedom choice Of the very evils that it is the
book by whomsoever selected and whether found in school
Maine California An arithmetic that will answer the
the requirements of those Of Cincinnati WELL and whether
the men who the selection do their work sitting board
ofeIncaton at Cleveland or Cincinnati
lumbu matters not Indeed this commission would be more
able and more likely good selection nasmuch they
would be chosen because their special fitness for the work
whereas in the majority of instances az boards OF education
fitness whatever for the work they called upon to
perform many instances members Of boards of education