New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-07-12

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elect as aldermen. [ don't care how
much taxes you levy. If my neighbors
can stand it, can stand it.
But when you propose, as the law does,
to take my children away from me for
six to eight hours a day for twelve years,
ladies and gentlemen, I want to know
and you want to know, what kind of
care they are going to be in. What is
there dearer to us all than our children?
Ioh may make bonds, acquire bonds,
acquire buildings, acquire property as
you choose, the course of time will brush
it away as rubbish; it may be carried
away, lost, destroyed. The only thing
that is permanent, that is source of
pride, source of hope to us as we de-
part for another world, is child we'll
raised and endowed with an educution, a
child that has been reared to a life of
uprightness and honesty and that shall
he credit to his name and source of
pride, honor and hopefulness to his par
ents and his family.
What is there by which this can he ac-
complished! It is good public school.
Now it is right that they should go to
school. In free country like ours the
society that we will have in the future
depends solely On the citizens who consti-
tute the same.
The State has the right, as a matter
| of self-defense, to demand that our child
| rem should he educated. Not necessari-
ly in the public schools, if they can get
| it in any other. But say, the State has
right to take our children away from
us and give them education, either in
parochial schools or the public schoolsa and
l say, when the state has this great right
| Of calling our own flesh and blood from
| us, our children from us, for six hours
day for eight, ten or twelve years,
| then as fathers, as mothers, as sisters and
| brothers, it is our duty to see what kind
of care, nurture, encouragement and
development they need and are being
given.
Now, this IS very important question.
l feel that I may be mistaken and I am
not egotistical enough to say that know
it all, but l feel an abiding conviction
in my own mind that our schools are
good schools, that they are well-equipped
well-conducted and supplied with a good
corps of teachers, and that our children
receive the best of Instruction.
That young man who went from here
to Annapolis went from our public
schools. He graduated from the Nor
NAL School at Mankato and was then ap.
pointed to go to Annapolis where he
graduated with distinction. He gradua-
ted from the Hi CHER Schools of Sciences
in France and has taken high honors all
along the line. Of course, the Creator had
endowed him with a strong physical bo-
dy and sound intellect, but the impulse
and direction, the bent of his mind, Was
given him in ourpublfc schools. Young
Scherer, he was a product of ourschools.
He went to West Point, graduated with
honor and IS to-day filling an important
fpositlon in the government service. You
can't name child who has graduated
from our schools but what he has beer
an honor to himself, his parents and the
town. Now, what better can you say Of
a public school system? When thev &C
to the Normal schools, they are admitted
of course. A child holding certificate
of our school gains admission to any o.
the higher institutions of learning. Il
unlocks the doors of the University of this
state, of the Universities ofWisconsin anG
Michigan, and of the greatest Universities
in country, those of Harvard and Yale.
say, that is a source Of pride to me and
| to us all.
Now teaching is very different occu-
patton than most others. 1t is a labor OF
love. I have taught school a great ma
ny years; have taught thirteen terms.
say it has got to be labor of love from
beginning to end; if it is not, it is a
drudgery to teacher andpupil. Godhave
mercy on teacher who doesn't love his
work. A teacher who is desirous of sue
cess has got to love. his calling; his whole
soul has got to he in the performance of
his duty. A carpenter goes along with
his work, fitting his timbers and dealing
with nothing more; so does mason, a
blacksmith; it is merely mechanical and
it doesn't take his whole soul and pa
tience. He doesn't deal with flesh and