The record-union., 1893-03-25

not attempting to cover, but to courage
ously conquer them.
The best and most thorough instruc-
ton in every department., moral, mental,
industrial, physical, placing the system
by its pre-eminence out of the field of
anything approaching general competi-
ton.
Insist upon the absolute necessity of
the precedence and mastery of the ma
tiOnal language.
Require the careful training of all the
children and youth in the fundamental
political doctrines and moral axioms
and principles on which the free Amer
lean Government rests, as the only ade-
/ quate method Of securing that respect for
the opinions and circumstances of others,
readily inculcated in youth, but difficult
to acquire when character has been shaped
and determined.
Let the people see to it that the practice
of economy for political purposes does
not commence in any community with
the schools, but provide, without prodi-
gality and with liberality, for both school
buildings and school support.
Let no political, or ecclesiastical or
atheistical outcry, from whatever source,
against religious instruction in the
schools be the means OF banishing a high
morality from the character OF the teacher
of from the qualification of the teaching
shall be civil educator to make good
citizens, and good citizens must possess
moral character. The schools will ineV-
! itably be a reflex of the noble, cultured,
moral characters of the instructors.
Danish absolutely all sectarianism from
the management and teaching of those
| public schools, and all evidence OF the
structures used or in the garb of teachers
that would suggest sectarian relationship
or hint at the remotest connection of
/ Church and State.
Let National, State, county and munich
pal treasures be jealously guarded against
all attempts or preteXt for the division of
the sacred funds which they hold for the
support of common schools.
DANISH PARTISAN CONTROL.
Let all partisan political control be ban
ished from the management of the
schools.
Let wise and fair compulsory education
laws be speedily perfected and judiciously
enforced.
Let all schools, where citizens are be-
ing trained for the performance of their
duties as sovereigns in the Republic
| come under the intelligent supervision of
the governmental authorities, as a right
ful measure OF safety, and as the only
method of apprOXimat;ng that practical
uniformity of results essential to popular
| education in a republic. one OF the pru-
| cpal functions in the common schools is
to Americani2e the children of foreign
birth or parentage, and by its processes
! of digestion and assimilation make them
! a healthtul part of the body polite. Thus
only can the dangerously heterogeneous
| be made safely homogeneous.
| The American flag ought to float over
/ every public school building in the Re-
/ public while the schools are in session,
| as an object lesson in patriotism for child
hood and youth, as a symbol TO the world
that we consider these buildings the
fortresses Of our strength, from which 20
forth the forces which are the best pro-
tectors of our free institutions.
JAMES NJ. KING,
General Secretary, ''The National League
for the Protection OF American Institu-
tionSD