Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-02-25

your services. I talk to you, you may
feel assured it is one of your mum Der,
and one whose heart beats in sympathy
with you and is in touch with your
every interest.
The school, which develops the mind,
is found everywhere; in the silent re-
treats of nature, in the busy marts of
trade, the workshop and every avenue
of life, as well as in the institutions
set apart for education. The thought
which is uppermost in your minds to-
night is no doubt the school, which has
been under discussion during this ses-
sion of your institute. The American
idea of popular education, the enlight-
eminent of the massss-that ideas which
cover the land with thousands of pub
| lie school houses, and has enlisted a
vast army OF school teachers at an out
lay of millions of dollars annually, at
the public expense-public schools,
public education.
''But what relation" continued the
governor, "exists between the school
and the press? Are these two forces
naturally linked together? Yes, the
| u,
inspires investigation into the affairs
of society, business and government,
in it's many ramiications. The boy
and the girl have their mental vision
opened, they step out into the struggle
of busy world, they meet the news
paper teeming with the pulsating
thought of the times. 1t takes hold of
their Intelligence and utilizes them to
make public opinion, to achieve vic
tories in matters of public concern.
That public opinion finds expression in
political platforms, then in the legisla-
ture, where it is crystalized into the
fixed law of the land. He the school
and the press make law giver of the
them out OF our girls as we'll. Behold
the Importance of your trust teachers.
You are now perchance educating some
of the law givers. rulers of the coming
state, yes and perchance of the repub-
lie.
sit is not the mental development of
the school-room which is of the great
est Importance, there must be more
than this. Education without morals
is dangerous, and there can be no
morality without religion. You, as
teachers. are character builders, and
there is no stable character where in
tellectual development is not cemented
with morality and these anchored to
the rock of ages. The intellect cannot
reach its highest power, without drink
ing from the fountain of divine thought,
and that can only be reached through
the channel of religious nature. Say
what you will, this is the verdict of the
greatest men, the brightest lights that
have cast rays of intellectual splendor
down the ages. 1t is not only what you
teach in school by word and precept,
but what you teach in and out of school
BY example. Teachers you are living
torches to your pupils-they keep their
eyes steadily upon you, and from you
and your actions they mould their
mind, and build their character and
they will initiate your defects. The
school room should be the seat of all
the social reforms of the day. And the
teachers should stand up and be
counted as representatives of those
movements which have for their pur-
pose the welfare of the race. With
such a force instilling its influence
upon the minds and growing character
OF millions Of children growing up to