The Progress., 1893-03-18


resentative, the state. The taxing power
of a state is the only power that cal
bring in revenue adequate to the educa
ton of people.
Besides, the state is the only power
that can compel people to be educated
The church cannot do it. The parents
won't do it. They do not want TO pu'
their children TO school They woulI
rather nut them in mills and shops
/ and the state must lay its strong
arm on them and say: You cannot
work that child. Ii has got Z right &c
! live, to be a man or womat, and you
cannot thus destroy It's chance OF lie.
The state, then, alone can educate q
! race, and if the state does not see TO II
the child will see 10 it by and by, when
those little fingers have grown to tiger
claws, and the result will be prison OF
reformatory. VIII the state put the
child to school or will it take the sur
geon's knife by and by and eliminate II
from society. or will it electrocute 1t:
CITIZENSHIP AND PATRIOTISM.
The state only has a right to educate
the child. For a person to say-because
he takes 10 children and puts them i'll a
private school of his own free choice,
when the public school is provided with
better teachers and equipments in every
way-for him to say, 4 pay taxes to the
state and get nothing in foturn for that
taxation, is simply pure anayehy.
That sort of principle would subve~t
every institution of the state if applied.
Old maids must pay taxes for schools.
Bachelors must pay taxes for schools.
Have they the right TO club together and
say, I'VE will resist the supreme right OF
the state because we are not represented
in the schOolroom:' They have Just a.
much right to form an army and march
against the capital as for any Religions
factor to come together and say. I've
will not be taxed because we are not rep.
resented in the public schools" Why are
you not represented? 1t is Your lookout.
If the church has made a failure and can.
not support its own schools, why ask the
state to take up bad job and do wha;
the church cannot do itself?
Taxation without representation does
not count i'll such an instance. The man
who has made that plea has failed to un.
derstand the meaning of citizenship and
patriotism. Last summer while down
on the coast Of North Carolina was
thrown off on a desert island one nigh
and wandered all over it. never had
much use for lighthouse before. nos
much that night, but compared to the
amount of money that it takes 10 run
those lighthouses and keep up that line
OF coast survey, why, it was an ou;ra.
geons imposition ON me-
L have to pay tariff on my clothes, on |
my hat and everything | wear. to keen
up that coast survey. am not sailor |
Why should be taxed to maintain light |
houses on the coast, while | never even
ran little skiff in river? We were
born IN the mountains, we are noun.
tanners, and why should mountaineef
be taxed to keep up lighthouse on a
seaboard? Why have | not the right tO
gather an army of mountaineers and tear
down those life saving stations and say
TO the government, You shall not tax
us because we are not representedy"
Now, the man that seeks to tear down n
because he has not a child
N IL Is no better than the ruffian who
would try to tear down a lighthouse be.
;ause he Is not sailor. 1t is principle
hat involves the life of the state.
THE SAFEGUARD OF INTELLIGENCE.
America Is the hope of the world. and
he hope of America is what you must
guard. Queen Victoria owns properry
IN Nassau street, besides thousands OF
'cres OF land in your broad plains of the .
vest. King Humbert of Italy owns
property IN America. Ask the real es.
ate broker, and you will find that every
rowned head Of the great empires of the .
Id world hold property here. because
hey know 1t is better than their own
'anks III Europe. America is the hone
the world, and it rests on your guid.
nee and patriotism and leadership.
Now listen: The hope of America il in
er free boys, her free schools. in tho
malgamation of this population. If ycu
o not amaigamate, how can you livei
on will have a civil war over apai,.
hat Is why you had the last war. You
'ere provincial; you did not know ono
mother. If you educate people to stay
'lthln theii shells, at last there is a crash
lat snakes the state. If you would in.
IRE this nation in the future, bring your
hlldren into the great arena of tho
'hoolroom. Let Catholic look into the
zee OF Protestant and know one another
nd such strife is an impossibility. Youf I
'public is safe in intelligence, in reason. y
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