The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-28
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to gain admission 70 a lawyers office % =
atudent unlsss he 10 able TO take dictations
in shorthand. and this 10 only q OF many
considerations that should encourage young
people to acquire the art.
With these remarks, ! may hSRs hat I
STRANGE 10 not against business colleges to!
the purposes to which their specific lines OF
instruction arc addressed; It 10 only against
their being accepted a. q substituts
for the wider, the broader. tho
more comprehensive and elsvatine ednos,
OF Helena. There 10 something low and
sordid in the thought that culture should
be confined to the acQuiromenta that are
connected. peculiarly and exclusively. with
money making. or directed SOLELY TO the
end Of achieving that kind OF suecess n
a fortune. The incentives 10 the pursuit OF
wealth are quite auffioient; We need not
fear that our boys will fail 10 respond
10 them. What we who are parents
should SEQ to 10 that while they are
young, and before the greed OF wealth
and other debasing influences posae,s mem,
they receive such an education as shall en-
tighten their Understandings. broaden their
no icons, enable them to bear, their pa.s
wishout shame in all positions and amid
any associations. and build up manly q
SYM etrical characters. In all this We
cannot afford to overlook 80 etticiens o
fortunate an agency as the Helena high
school. Haec studio ad~olescentiam ai1nt:
Daniel Webster said of the ordinance OF
1897 that he doubted whether any single
law, ancient or modern. had produced eff
fects of more distinct. marked and lasting
a character" In creating the great North
western territory, it provided that slavery
or involuntary setvitude. save ~ punish
ment for crime. shall never exist within it,
boundaries; that the waters leading into
the Mississippi river shall always be pubic
highways, and-far transcending these
p~rovisions-it ordained that religion.
morality and knowledge being necessary 70
mankind. schools and tho means OF educa-
ton shall forever be encouraged" When
the Louisiana purchase. including what 10
nov Montana, was effected. our treaty with
France bound us to secure to the inhaoit-
ants of the vast domain which was thus
ferred upon the people of the Northwest
territory by the ordinance of 1857. Ths title
which we deraipn through these instru-
ments to a liberal system of public schools
has not failed to be recognized BY the
federal government in muniacent
endorsements for that purpose. True. these
are not sufficient TO relieve IA OF the neces-
sity Of taxing ourselves for their mainte-
nance, and it 10 not desirable that they
should be; VS. will be more apt to apprecl-
ate our public schools If We have to pay
for them. The consequences OF this policy
are represented in . contamination whlch
affords one of the arandsst spectacles ever
offered to human contemplation. Here in
this city of Helena we have q system that
receives the lisping child and carries him
onward and upward through carefully
graduated courses of instruction. until II
returns him to us a we'll educated man OF
woman. Such is the perfect flower of thu
nineteenth century; such is the ripest pro
duct Of our civilization; suoh is the pride
hope and strength of the great republic
So we may say of our CITY, az was said o
the republic of Venice:
I'm purple is she robed, and of her feast,
Monarchs ~partake, and deem their dignity in
creased"