San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-07-11

time limited. The entire transaction
will be IN unmixed blessing TO all
concerned, and especially TO our city
as A whole. San Marcos is no longer
tho sleepy little hamlet she was when
il was deemed she needed no school
but tho Institute. There is now
sample scope and verge enough for
both a good public school and rs
many private ones rs may be demand,
cd, Let the Institute Ego up higher
in its educational course, instead OF
continuing to compete with tho pub
lie schools in primary work 1t
might thus muster many recruits from
them, and take q higher rank in re-
putation and prosperity than ever be-
fore. We regard this as its true fu-
ture mission.
We say in all candor and kindness
to tho friends OF the Institute: You
are on the wrong track in your OPP
position to free school progress
which means q new school building
in San Marcos-on the wrong track
even for the best interest OF your
fayorite. The Institute has received
too liberal aid from tho general out
side public to now turn round and by
its action declare that that public
shall give it their exclueive patronage,
or 20 without home educational pri-
vileges. Such o return for signal
favors in the past, seems to us very
unbecomiug, to say the least. Equal
ly unbecoming is it for the friends OF
the Institute to thus say to San Mar
cos, with reference to her future pro
gross, "thus far shalt thou so and no
farther" Conceding rs we do that
the Institute has been OF great bene-
fit to the town in the past, does this
fact warrant its special friends in try
ing to keep the town in its former
swaddling bands lest "Coronal'
might lose it's old time monopoly of
the primary education Of the childrenf
Is that any reason why the public
schools sohuld not be allowed to
share in the work of up-building our
town! Tho Institute has helped great
ly by attracting students from q dis
lance to spend their money among
us; but the public schools, if fostered
as they should be, will do far more,
b y attracting whole families OF worthy
people to como and mako permanent
homes among us. And who that stakes
his walks abroad" about the town,
and secs the frequent vacant houses
many Of them very good ones-will
presume to say that this is not some
thing greatly to be desired-some-
thing which would enchance the value
of property and give new life to our
business circloss Will Coronal In
stitute after all, fall back on the role
of tho traditional COW, which gave IN
OVERLOOKING bucket OF milk only to
kick it over?-or OF the greedy can
inc which lost the substance in grasp
ing ut the shadow 1t may be 80,
but we are 10th to believe it. We
appeal to its special friends to take the
sober second thought, cease fighting
the public schools, but rather join in
hearty cooperation with them in
making San Marcos, in decd and in
truth, the educational center of
which we have heard so much.
In order that they may the moro
surely reach right conclusion on
this subject, we again respectfully
to our public school trustees
to remove from them that stumbling
block of S400 of public school funds
which the Institute has been illegally
receiving from certain of our suburb
an school communities, and turn it
over (if said communities continue to
send to town to its true owners, the
public schools of the town, ''Lead
us not into temptation"
We have written tho above in the
interest Of peace and harmony in our
circles, and from an hon
est conviction of what would be for
the best good of all our people; and
can only hope that it may be received
in the same spirit which inspired it.
The volume of Later Speeches of
Geo. W. Julian, q notice of which we
recently copied from the Fort Worth