Arizona republican., 1894-12-20

| In the primary SCHOOLS, the lower
 grades, if woman could be found to
 take the place. In this sacred profes-
 sion there are plenty of places for the
 man with all his brightest and best
 powers, but let the primary, the earlier
 grades, be kept exclusively for the
 woman.
 An, I remember those early school 1 days of mine, and the first, yes the first
 two school mistresses of mine. How
 gentle in reproof, yet how firm in dis
 cipline how beautiful their smiles of
 approval for work well done. How inn
 maculate in neatness, why their very
 finger rings and watch chain. l re-
 mem Der; exquisite memory! How we
 boys worshiped those women in our
 awkard, rubbish way, and then when
 we were promoted, and had man
 teachers. An, what mere, mortal man
 could hope to fill the niche we had carv
 ed out for her. nay that they had carv
 ed out for themselves in our very
 hear ts, and then besides the man chew
 ed tobacco.
 MT. President, congratulate you on
 what you are doing here. It is a noble
 work, It lies at the very foundation of
 soc,ety and yet I would have you
 remember in the midst of all your just
 pride in your public schools and it's
 splendid corps of teachers, that I am a
 Pennsylvanian and that Pennsylvania
 has set the pace for you all in her sys-
 tenn of public schools. You owe much
 to Pennsylvania. I would have you
 remem Der that in the late sixties after
 the war was over, brave soldier boy, young soldier of the Repu blic, a Pennsylvanian the product of Pennsyl- vania ideas and Pennsylvania schools,
 boy whose beard had sprouted in the lurid smoke of battle where men ripen fast, pulling off the uniform and don , ming the garb of the citizen, took bis
 young bride by the hand and facing
 westward confronted the future and his fortune.
 They found in Arizona the home of their choice. You know the man. He :, stands before you as your governor to- day, and his noble wife, a Pennsylvania girl, joint architect with him in their fortunes points back with pride today : through the vista of twenty years to that day when she was the first public school teacher in Arizona.
 Indeed do you owe Pennsylvania : much but, MT. President, I did not in. tend to makeia speech 1 simply desired
 to express in such courteous words as . might find, my sense of the compliment done me and the keen satisfaction 5 feel in knowing that the people of Ari y zopa, whose star is soon to blaze in tha
 beautiful flag of ours, are building upof : firm foundation, making permanent e guaran tees of her fitness to join tn, Il sisterhood of commonwealths, that to Il gether form one broad, grand, free na e tion, that today leads all the nations o C the earth in the brilliant paths 0 progress.
 Il At the close of Col Rulings address T. papers on history were read by c. H A Wild of Fair banks and Miss E. Kelly o Tucson. They elicited a discussion il s which Messrs. Rohr, Metcalf, Pike NJ James and Winters took part. The chief feature of the evenin, session was the subject "Shall W !, Educate the Indians?" Superinten 'l dent Hall of the Indian school was ex /. pected to deliver an address but wa 99' not present. Governor Hughes how ever spoke at some length and in al | lust uChlhO anu it' upon the necessity of bringing tn s Indian up to standard of useiu ; citizenship and of making him tax of payer and contribute to the a!leviatio ol of the burdens of state.
 2 .n County Superintenden c. W .. .. Grouse delivered an address upon tn aatt subject My Ideal Teacher" o 'd Misses Carrie Christy and Mar .u Smith favored the institute with a plan ppt duet.
 ,i. The committe on honorary mem bel W yesterday presented the names of th at following persons who were eleced: in T. c. Jordan, school superintendent Inf Naricopa county; c. W. Cronse, scho( TO superintendent-e Maricopa county 7e Mayor Monihon, Judge A. c. Bake n. D. L. Murray. J. ". Kincsid, Fran I'd Fuqua, school board District No. ri Maricopa county; Right Rev. J. \ to Kendrick, Rev. G. L. Pearson, Rev. n. c. Davis, Rev. J. S. Phillips, T. E. Da x- ton, k. L. Long, Mrs. Cooley, Mls in Smith, Prof. Fremont Crane. W A poll oI the institute showed ths Ia the nativity of the 126 teachers in g al tendance was as follows:
 he Ohio 8, Kentucky 4, Indiana 5, III a. @ nois Il, Virginia l, England l, Cal III fornia II, Kansas 6, Missouri 4. Tel m nessee 2. Michigan 6. Mississippi to New York g, Wisconsin 2, West Indie III 1, West Virginia l, Arkansas 3, Canac ad 4, Idaho l, Colorado 1, Massachusetts Iv Iowa 3, New Hampshire l, Arizona ass Maryland l, Utah 6, Maine l, Minnes nr ta 2, Pennsylvania ?, Nebraska 1.
 Todays Program. tl- Morning session. 9 o'clock. ys Prayer, Rev. J. s. Phillips. Ve Music.
 ht Recitation, Ethel McMullen. ITS Piano solo, Flora Cohn.