Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-24
EDWARD BRLLAmY UPHELD.

A Strong. Practical Discourse Upon
 Kdueatien by Rev. l.. H. squires as
 she Church or the Messiah.
 A comprehensive, practical discourse upon the great educational problem of to-day was given by Rev. l.. H. Squires at the Church of the Messiah last evening. He chose his text from John viii, 32: "The truth will make you free."
 Tho masses of our children never see the inside of an advanced school or of college, said he. There are multitudes of families who have not a present or future hope of developing their condition. There are many people who think they cannot even dress we'll enough to come to church. While we might not credit such reasons, we might go out into this city and find more than one thousand families who are not able to leave their homes and to associate with good soci. ety because of their poverty. Only as they are helped by friends are they able to live and this is the condition of hundreds of families whose doors you would never enter but as a good samaritan. What is to be done3 I say this condition is growing worse. It is because of the great immigra- ton to this country. There is continually @ tendency, because of this, to @ lower level in education at least, in our large cities. Heredity is another dominant feature. If we are ignorant, our children may inherit some of our failings. A recent census In New
 York shows that there are ten times more than among the princes of Fifth avenue. Here is the problem of our government.
 What of the future of city where this is continued for any length of timeg Votes will count on Cherry Hill as well as on Fifth avenue. Votes rule the country. Shall our rulers be ignorant and degraded through their povertya The will of Napoleon is better than the recklessnees of Paris com- mune. The question is whether the rule of an aristoeracy is not better than the rule of she people. If the rate of human produce tion is not made equal, or the poor masses made more enlightened, political and social chaos of ignorance Is imminent. There are men who give great gifts to our colleges, but who is it that goes to these schoolsa Not the poor of our country. Some work their way through college, but the great masses must stay outside for want of opportunity. The wealth of our country must be put into other institutions than our colleges. It must be placed where the masses of the poor who cannot support themselves when outside of their own town can be benefited. Will the rich men of the country do thisl Neither you nor have any dream that they will. Or the state may take this work in It's own charge. As this liable to be donel We have within this city within the last year voted free text books to our children and II say Ameni to that. As the logic which says that if you compel children to go to school you must furnish them with text books, so also does 1t declare that we must furnish them with clothes and also to remunerate the poor fam- flies who are deprived of their labor and small earnings. This is just what MT. Ed- ward Bellamy has sounded in his book. Some think the plan of educating the bright ones and leaving the great masses uncul- tivated good one. But MT. Bellamy shows that 1t leaves them surrounded like bog in a swamp. The idea is progressing that the most needy should receive the utmost care in education. The people as awhole should help the most needy to higher and better minds and lives. We must establish some system of holding the people together for the benefit of all. The higher excellance that will come out of their lives will be the best blessing that can rest upon us