Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-02
LETTER BAG.

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EDITORS HERALD: saw in the report
of the police commission in your issue
Of June 1st q warning to saloon keepers
who keep open on Sundays. 1t caused
me to think great deal more than
will say, but would like to ask, through
the columns of your most worthy daily,
| il any one can tell me the meaning oi
that waning? will ask such person,
is it one result of the Mills meetings, un,
der the guise Of religion, or is it fostered
by some half dozen would-be prominent
saloon men who can afford to hire q
NIT issued by council, while others
are barred of that privilege, who also
hold an excuse Of q restaurant license,
SO as to run wide open on Sunday and
on whom the Sunday law has no bear.
ing, or is the move original with the
mover, one Mr.. Shatto, and the board oi
police commissioners, to squeeze out OF
saloon men q few thousand dollars, as
was charged by some leading church
people the county commissioners did q
short time ago?
We, the license payers of Los Angeles,
anxiously wait for the mover to stand
up and explain. LICENSE PAYER
And citizen of Los Angeles for five years.
Moral Philosophy in the Schools.
EDITORS HERALD: President Eliot has
made serious charge against the much
vaunted schools of New England, and,
by implication, against those OF the
whole country. He says that the aver
age child, one who does not 20 to the
most advanced schools, gets only the
baldest elementary instruction; that the
curriculum of the lower schools lacks all
branches which give the pupil the
slightest insight into science or litera-
ture. DR.. Eliot might 60 step farther
and say that they lay themselves open
to the charge of neglecting the very end
for which they are maintained.
The end OF the schools Of this coun-
try, private as well as public, ID to make
good and intelligent citizens. Up to q
very late date we have had no study in
our schools which gives the scholar any
knowledge whatever of the governments
of our country. Our State university
at Berkeley has made . move in the
right direction by making q course in
civil government one of its require
ments. But is this all that is necessary :?
The world has learned by experience
that the security of the state depends
upon the integrity of the family; that
the well-being of the family depends
upon the morality OF it's individual
members. What is done to teach this
in our schools?
We have practically banished the
teaching of Christianity. Let us at
least substitute what took the place of
it in the heather world. The education
of the ancients consisted, to q large ex-
tent, in the inculcation of certain great
principles which constituted their sys-
tenn of ethics.
The spread of immortality among
young men of the present day is in di-
rect ratio to the growth of irreligion.
We urge the adoption OF some course in
moral science. An Anglican clergyman
said in sermon some years ago: "If
l were rich man, that could offer a
premium for literary labor, would offer
it for proper text books on moral science
to be introduced into our sceools. 1t is
high time that they were forthcoming.
/ am no bigot. should be glad to see
many Of the principles laid down by
Herbert Spencer in his Data of Ethics
embodied in manuals for the use of our
youth" Principles which, as DR.. Nc
Gosh says, although not sufficient to
displace religion, are part of religion.
Moral science is, to certain extent, an
exact science. There is such thing as
an absolute right and wrong. We are
trying non-religious instruction in the
public schools. Let US be fair to our
selves, and if we give up that great
ethic, the Bible, let US substitute some
course in moral philosophy which will
teach our children to be pure and hon.
est men and women and good citizens.
RICHARD H. GUsBEE,