St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-09

founder of the New England system Of
education, while she had by far the
smallest proportion of illiterate native
born adults of any, even of the New
England states, she had at the same
time much the largest proportion OF
native white criminals, having one
criminal to every $40 native white in
habitants."
I'm their efforts to find some plausible
explanation for the astounding growth
of crime in the public-SchOOl states in
excess of that found in the parental
school districts, the advocates OF state
governed schools have sometimes
number of convictions for crime in the
public school states and the number
found in the parental-schOol states is
owing to variety of local causes, entire
" uncOnnected with and independents OF
difference in educational systems. But
a complete refutation of this assumption
is found in the statistics OF public school
education and crime, demonstrating
that in the very same localities every
material increase of expenditures for
public school purposes has. without a
single exception, been followed by
corresponding increase Of crime. For
example:
MASSACHUSETTS.
"In 1850 the state of Massachusetts,
had native white population OF S27,-
$50. At that date her public school
pupils numbered 176.475, and her in
come for the support of these schools
was 81, O06,795 being $50 to each pupil,
With this comparatively limited eXpend-
iture for the maintenance OF her anti
parental schools, she had, out OF native
population of S27 ,430, but COS native
born criminals, being only one to every
1867 native inhabitants. This. com
paratively speaking, was a very small
number for public school state, though
a very large number compared with the
number of criminals in any parental or
private school state.
but coming down to 1880, Just thirty
wears later, we find that her income for
public-spirited purposes had swollen to
81, 696,612 for the benefit of SIG, $50 public
school pupils, being S14.S3 per pupil.
counting every pupil that attended
school at any time during the year. But
Massachusetts expended on her schools
during that same year more than her III
come, to wit, the sum of 81, ,951,
being s2O,O3 for the pupils in average
daily attendance. And out OF a native
born white population of 1,320,S97 there
were 2.O1O adult native white cOnvictS,
being one to every 63S inhabitants in
place of one to every 1857 as in 1850,
and this leaves out of the CONT some
Cos juvenile cOnvicts, confined in vari-
Gus reformatOry institutions. BY in
Guiding these, the native white convicts
of Massachusetts,. i'll 1880, would amount
to one out of every 493 native white in
habitants.
LOUISIANA.
"Of all the states OF the Union,
Louisiana, thirty years ago, was the
most lavish in the expenditure of her
money for public and anti-parental
school purposes. According to Lip
pincott's Gazetteer of the World,' (see
old edition, p. 1,09D, Louisiana had, in
1850, 664 public schools. with 25,046 pu-
pills, and s349,679 income for public
school purposes. The amount would be
the public schools, which was more than
double the amount at that time being
paid by any of the New England
States, and the result was already
cropping out in her criminal sta
tistics, for during this same year the
United States census reports show that
out of native white population of
1857, she had 240 native criminals,
being one to every TT, by far the larg-
est criminal record in proportion to pop
ulation at that time to be found any
where in America, if not in the world.
Still, in order to prevent crime, she
continued to increase her expenditures
for public school purposes. until in 1870
she was expanding s473, 1000 OH 25,S32
pupils, amounting to s1S.33 per pupil;
and the result was, that out of a native
white population of sol ,450, she had 400
native white criminals, being one to
every 655 native white inhabitants.
Q"But coming down to 1880, Louisiana
according to the census reports of
that year-Out of a native white pOpula-
ton of 4O2, TT, had but SO native white
convicts in prison, being but one to
every 4,51S.
LEST some enthusiastic admirer of
our system should Jump to the conclus-
ion that this great falling off in Louis
iana's catalogue of criminals, between
creased anti-parental education facili-
ties, let US caution him to first glance
at her educational statistics for that
year. From these statistics he will
learn that Louisiana's public school in
come was but S49S, 400 for the benefit of
S1,O12 public school children, being
only S.. Is per pupil; or, counting only
those in daily average attendance, it
would be still only 1888 per pupil, in
lieu of the s1S.3S per pupil in 1870.
NEW YORK.
Sin 1850 the state of New York had a
native-born population of 2, 436,771. She
then had in her schools, all told, 727, 156
pupils, at an annual cost of $2,431 PAT,
or 1884 per pupil. At that time her
native-born criminals numbered only
649, or one native-born criminal to every
1854 native inhabitants.
"But with the laudable purpose of
lessening the tendency of her people to
commit crime, the state government
went on year by year increasing the
burdens of taxation for public school
purposes, until in 1880 her receipts for
the education of 1,O27, 1888 children were
Sill ,O35,511, being SLOTS for every
pupil that entered her schools at
any time during the year, and
the result was that, with native
white population of s,S07,317, she had
SLIT native white criminals in prison,
being one to every TAI people, instead
to say, having increased her expendi-
lures for anti-parental and goddess
schools little more than 800 per cent,
in order to decrease crime, she was re-
warded by an increase of crime to the
tune of over 500 per cent.
"What seems astonishing is that, in
the face OF these appalling facts, the de-
mand for more money still goes forth.
referring to New York's state super
intendent as his authority, the United
States commissioner of education for
1881 page ~ says:
with an increase of nearly $1,000 in the
number of youth, five to twenty-one years of
age, there was decrease Of over 10000 in
public school enrolment. and over 13. 600 in
average daily attendance. = He thinks