St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-27
MINNEAPOLIS EVENTS
Rev. S. W. Samples Advice on
the Public School
Question.
Rev. VIM. Wilkinson Speaks
as Father and Preacher
on Death.
PlaStePerS Decide to Declare
Their Strike Off for
Good.
Waits Of News Found On an
Unusually Quiet
Sunday.

"The Public Schools was the subject
of Rev. S. w. Samples discourse before
the peoples meeting at Century hall
yesterday, and he handled his subject
IN spirited manner and was a number
OF times the recipient of great applause.
Too much should not be expected of the
teacher, said he. nor should too much
be expected of the public school. The
home and the street are educators of
themselves, and the education of chill
dren is i'll a great measure guided by
that which they receive in these places.
He paid a tribute to the teachers, and
said that the value of the school and
the teacher was undereStimated. There
is not, said he, more thoughtful, hard
working and painstaking class of people
than the teachers in the public schools.
Teachers should be paid better salaries
than the scant and meager ones which
they now receive, and he would make
the line of promotion from the higher
to the primary grade, where he thought
the best teachers should be employed
to give the children the best attention
possible npOn their admission to the
schools. Too many teachers take up
the profession as makeshift until they
can find a more remunerative position,
or until they get married. This should
not be. 1t is not what a child learns,
but with whom he learns. Nothing is
well done unless it is a holy mission,
and the education of the race should be
the religion of the teachers. This edu-
catiOn-that of the public schools-is the
JackscreW under the nation. Parochial
or private schools can never take the
place of the public schools, for at the
best they are but parochial and cannot
enlarge or develop public spirit or
patriotism as can the public schools.
He then touched upon the immigra-
ton question. "All this talk about re-
StricUing immigration,' said he, lis can't
and demagogism. Do away with the
false representations of steamship and
mining companies and the lying adver-
tisements of states, and stop the ship
mentS OF paupers and criminals. and we
will receive only the natural flow of i'm
migration. The children are American
lied IN the public schools, and the immi-
grafton problem is settled forever by
the amalgamation of the Immigrants
into the common brotherhood of all.''
is the right of the state to preserve
itself and protect itself from crime. he
continued, and this only can be done by
education. To make intelligentcitizens
and to protect the state from crime and
the improper use of the ballot box, it is
necessary to educate the children who
will compose the state of tomorrow.
The child's declaration of independence
should read: I'VE hold these truths to
be Observation-Disclosures all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inaIienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty and
education
The public school system Is not what
it should be. 1t should be improved, but
that can only be done by perpetuating
NebuchadneZzer. The head is of gold,
the breast of silver, the legs of brass
and the feet of clay. 1t must not be de-
strOyed, but improved.