The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-02

of denouncing the public schools OF the
state and stated by innuendo that th'
loafcrs on the street were the product o
the common schools. There is no use il
mincing matters when an assertion 81
broad as this Of Col. Krez is announced
publicly: Either Col. Krez is mischie
making fool or he is deliberate liar. HI
can take either horn Of the dilemma h
pleases, but he cannot escape one or thu
other. He says: THE German children
| of the parocnial schools are better raised
lerzogen) than the German children IL
the public schools. Where do the loaferl
on the street come from?"
The Pilot has studiously avoided an
reference to nationality on this question
because there is no question Of national
ity involved. The editor has for years
been officially and personally interested
in securing for the youth of this county
such an education as would be most bene
fetal to them individually and in these
efforts there have been none more Intent
upon rendering assistance than the Ger
mans. 1t is libel upon them and an III
suit to every person interested in educa
ton to have a man upon whom prominence
has been thrust undeseryedly, as his ut
terance proves, state in public meeting
that the parochial schools not only dc
better work than the public schools but
that the latter are responsible for loafers
on the street. He even goes to the eX
tent of making particular reference tc
the Germans in thus discriminating be-
tween the work done by parochlal ano
public schools Among those OF Ger
man parentage teaching in this county
wholly educated in the public schools
whose lives are so pure that even Col
Krez' envy might be aroused are: A
Guttmann, principal of the Third ware
school, A. w. Dassler, principal of the
Kiel school, L. A. Schmitz, E. S. Schmitz
Fl. A. Schmitz, Henry Wernecke, VIM
Groth, teachers in Newton, 4. Nlcolaui
teacher in the village of Centerville
Louis Jerman teacher in the village of st
Nazians, John Naser in the village OF
Two Creeks. Willie Koch and j. L. Mil
Ter in Rocklan1, H. Groth in ManitowoC
Rapids, A. f. Elmegreen IN Eaton, Otto
Guidinger in Schleswig, Oscar Stock
never in Mishicott and others whose
names cannot be readily recalled. The
list of lady teachers of German parent
age teaching in this county whose names
are synonym for decency and propriety
would swell the above list four-fould
And these are loafers on the streets in
the opinion OF this Office holder who
stands prominent as being the only Cleve-
land appointee who wept tears of pro-
test when his office was taken from him
by the party now In power. 1t is such
people the valiant colonel would traduce
and class as ''loafers on the street" Many
Of them have their faults no doubt. They
are far from perfect. But they are i'm
measureably above the Colonel whose
military title was civil donation and
worn without honor, and who seeks poll
Jical prominence by acting the part of a
demagogue. He is shrewd enough to
perceive that those who received their
training ia the public schools are ''slow
10 wrath" and he counts on their for
bearance while making capital by abus-
ing them.
He seeks to make the Bennett law an
issue between nationalities as we'll as an
issue between public and parochial
schools. The Pilot is interested only in
giving the youth of the state that educa-
tion most beneficial to him. If the paro-
chial schools do this as well as the pub
lie schools, there is no quarrel between
them. There is no question of national
ity though Col. krez Is anxious to inject
it. The Irish, Bohemian, Scandinavian
or Pole has the same reason to object to
the law that Col krez has. Every one
of the above nameds -natlonalitles are
amendable.to the law as well as those for
whom Col. krez appears as special cham
pion. In this county in proportion to
their numbers. the law if Operative, would
bear as hard on one as on the other. But
fortunately for the others they have nc
lsmagogue seeking power as Col. krez
is. by intoxicating national bigotry.
The Germans" he says, will only be
needed If they are feared. Hence they
lust close their ranks and must be able
{ say: so and so many votes are ours
What glorious advice to his countrymen!
Suppose a "blue-bellied" Yankee should
offer similar advice. What would Col
I<rez thinkof him? And supposethe ex-
citing cause was the exclusion OF German
IN the parochial schools. But the Col.
asks that English be excluded. Hi
wrath is aroused because it is asked in /;
very mild manner, and without power o.
enforcement. that English be taught chi
dren between the ages OF and Il, for l.
weeks in each year, the remaining 20
weeks to be devoted to German or any
other laas.saea under Gods heavens
that the parent.chooses.
Aud be a.. nstru ; with a dgree O.
facility which he evidently mistakes fo'
poetic license. Ee says "a teacher dare |
not instruct his own child. The Be-
nett law permits it in unmistaksbie terms
II even allows the child to go without in. |
'truction if it can be shown he has all