The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12

lies are published in the republic,-or
rather there were, before President Bal
maceda temporarily shut up most of them
until the present political storm blows
over.
The latest census gives Chill total popu-
latlon OF :, 25S, 347, of which number only
1900 are allowed to vote. According to
the previous census there were in Chill
only 1888 persons, male and female,
who could read and write, all these, of
course,
BELONGING TO THE UPPER CLASSES.
But there it no country in the
world where greater efforts are being
made TO bring education within
reach OF the poorest. Every year
Congress appropriates most literally for
the purpose, and in every town there are
free schools expressly for the poor, besides
many excellent colleges, seminaries, and
public libraries. The common school sys-
tenn is as nearly perfect as can be made,
combining the best educational ideas of ali
lands. Some years ago the government
sent an envoy to the United States and
every country of Europe, on purpose to
study schools and methods of imparting
instruction. That gentleman, Senior Aba
lardo Nunoz, has since been made the gen
eral commissioner of education in Chill,
and has combined, with best results, the
wisdom and experience of all the lands he
visited. He says that Switzerland has the
model schools of the world; the United
States next; Russia next; then Germany,
France, England and Italy, in the order
named.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SCHOOL HOUSES
have been built in every town and city, re-
CARELESS of cost and combining every mod
ern convenience and appliance. The time
is coming when ignorance will be the ex-
ception and education as universal here as
in our older republics.
For some years past the Gillian govern
ment has been expending large sums of
money in encouraging European laborers
to COLOMBO its frontier and become citizens.
BY way OF lnducement, each head of
family is given 200 acres of land, lumber
enough to build house, yoke of cat
tie, cart, plow, a quantity of seed,
and SIS a month during the first year
while the crops are growing-the lat
ter being loan for eight years without
interest Moreover, when the emigrant
first arrives in the country, they keep him
one month, free of charge, If he so desires,
in one of the several inns which the gov
eminent has erected for that express pur-
pose; and he will be transported on the
railways, gratis, wherever he wants to 90,
in order that
he MAY LOOK THE FIELD OVER
thoroughly before deciding where to locate.
Indeed, they don't do things of this sort
''by halves" in Chill, and the unknown
emigrant, without dollar in his pocket or
an ancestor at his back, is infinitely better
off than many an impecunious arts tocrat!
A large number of energetic and industri-
Gus German peasants have taken advan-
tage Of this unexampled liberty; and in
time their presence in the country may
considerably alter its statistics. In those
sections where they settle the mental and
moral characteristics of the coming genera
ton will undergo as great change as their
complexion. In the course of a few decades
even thrift and industry may become hon
orable. A Gillian not born of the lower
classes would starve to death before he
would degrade himself by manual labor:
andenobody works if he can possibly avoid
it. There is demand for skilled artisans
of every sort, and masons, carpenters, etc.
find employment at good wages as soon as
arrived.
AS a rule
THE TYPICAL GILLIAN POLITICIAN
Is man of dignity and wealth-never a
rascally wire-puller nor corner grocery guz-
zler. He enacts only such laws as he be-
lieves will be for the welfare of his beloved
country, and expects to see them obeyed.