Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-10-29

the deadly enemies of the common
schools.
OF Mills reference to Ingersoll he
said:
According to the Mills plan of education,
this cultured, brainy man, with a heart as
tender as woman'S, is not fit to hear the
Mills family recite the multiplication
table.
Thank God, 1 live in a state where such
a spirit of bigotry and intolerance
does not prevail; where men and women
are not OStraciZed and Outlawed because of
religious belief; where teachers are not
compelled to submit to examination IN the
Mills theory of education.
The candidates for governor were TAX
en- up and Peck's political caliber meas
ured by the statement that twenty-four
hours before his nomination for mayor
of Milwaukee he was an advocate of the
Bennett law. To Gov. Hoard he re-
ferred as bright example of what the
common school has done and can do,
and said he desired to pay tribute to his
truth. his manliness and his courage.
Here are two men. Mr.. Peck who in q
single hour, was willing to abandon prin-
ing to abandon Office for principle
1t would be frightful thing for the
Democratic party, in case of the election
of Mr.. Peck, if he should have another at
tack OF sudden conversion, and within
twenty-four hours after being sworn into
office, changed again to Republican. or,
perhaps, to a PrOhibitionist, or, perchance,
- to humOrlSt.
Mr.. Felker took up the Bennett law
clause by clause, and effectually dis
posed of the argument that the law de-
MES the right to trial by jury, explain
ing the method of procedure under it's
provisions. There hau never been a
doubt among honest lawyers, he said,
about the right of trial by jury under
the Bennett law, or about the constitu
tionality of the law. The statement
schools was shown to be equally devoid
Of truth, because the parent or guardian
is left free to educate his child anywhere
he chooses, SO long as the legal mini
mum of instruction is afforded. To-
ward the close of his speech Mr.
Felker carried away the audience with
fiery, arraignment of the enemies of
the common schools. He said
[ tell you plainly that this unholy cru
SADIE against the common schools is carried
on by a coalition of priest, pettifOgger, pol
by hate. Some by love of gain. Some by
hope of office. All willing to sacrifice the
common schools.
Woe, woe the day when the flags of the
church clutch the throat of the common
schools of Wisconsin.
Fearing the Indignation of the people,
editors of the Democratic newspapers have
haStened to place images of little school
houses at the head of their columns, and to
profess great love for the common schools.
This will deceive no one. ''By their works
shall We know them.' 1t is the old game
of using the lions skin to cover
the carcass of the ass. A picture of
a school house in the columns of Dem
cratic newspaper in this campaign
is as much out of place as would be the
delineation of Christian church in hell.
And here I may say that fully agree with
Mr.. Mills that the children should not be
taught there is no hell. If there is no hell
there ought to be. A hell as broad as deep,
as deep as wide, as wide as long, where
burning waves of deep damnatiOn do for
ever lash the hither and the thither shore.
And to that hell, followed by the execra-
tons of mankind, should be consigned
those intermeddling priests and political
mischief makers who seek to destroy that
great bulwark of American liberty, the
common school.
He wound up by telling the Bennett
law Democrats that they would have
the esteem of men who love their
country and the approval of their own
consclences. The effect of the speech
was tremendous, and late into the
night knots of men were standing on
the street corners, discussing it as the
great event of this campaign Scores
OF Democrats went to the stage TO con-
graduate Mr.. Felker when he had done
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