Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23
The C1nch Of the Normal.

es-already actlVe- would receive
such stimulus as to greatly benefit the
press of this state through the increas-
ed activity of his powerful mind as
shown forth through the columns of
his paper. We rejoice to know that
our conclusions were correct, and that
our confidence has not been misplaced.
Alter a weeks residence in that en-
pyreal region he could as readily tell
cow from a postulate as an ordinary
individual could distinguish between
humming bird and a jack rabbit. In
fortnight syncategorematic words
became as easy to him as a persim-
mon to a possum in the fall of the
year. In a twelve-month he knew a
sylloglsm by the back, and could
point out reasoning process a mile
away. We are rejoiced to know that
our remarks upon the cinch of the
Normal did not approach near enough
to the reasoning process to cause its
OSCuItatlOA' my hiOACOGAoI SAdbSO
that may take place in the brain Of
ordinary mortals will never become a
reasoning process until it has fallen
under the fructifyiDg influence of
some nest OF State barnacles.
When we claim that the demand for
teachers up to the standard of quail
fications fixed by the State would have
supplied the sixty or seventy per cent.
of teachers in Southeast Missouri that
the Cape Normal takes credit for, If
that school had never existed, we no.
where impinge upon the reasoning
process. Of course, the law of sup
ply and demand has nothing to do
with the business of school teaching
or with school teachers.
1t seems to our benighted under
standing that Brother Flynn is trifle
public roads. If private road should
be run parallel to Lublic road whose
officials had been enjoying fat salaries,
with little to do and plenty to get, and
the private road by superior manage
ment began to attract most OF the
travel, and the officials of the public
road, for fear of having their thor
oughfare closed by the public because
of lack of use, and thereby losing their
salaries, should begin to cast impedi-
ments in the way of the private road,
and should obtain,from the State Legis-
lature the passage of law fning every
man who passed over the private road,
you would have case exactly parallel
ed to that of the State Normal and the
private Normal. The turnpike sys-
tenn has been dropped, to great ex-
chartering a turnpike company is
compelled to endow it with the right,
under certain restrictions, to pass
over a mans land against his will.
Roads being public necessity the es-
tablishment of which involves the
taking of private property, it has been
found better that the state should d.
rectly assume their entire control, than
to delegate that control to an agent
not altogether responsible to it. But
if body of men should buy the right
of way from Ironton to Cape Girar-
deau. and open a private road between
the two points, what fair-minded man
would claim that the state should pass
laws making it burdensome for the
travelling public to use the private
road?
| To draw a parallel between the SOL
der and the school teacher is ridicu-
lous piece of folly. The army is a
fighting machine of the government.
From first to last, it Is directly under
its control, and must a: once respond
to its will. The education of the sol
der represses his individual character.
in developing his character along the
lines laid down by nature. The indi-
vidual tendencies in the soldier are
pruued by the state for the purpose oil
making him an effective part of an in
strumeut of offence and defence. With
his education the state should have as
much as possible TO do. With the
education of the free citizen the state
should have as little as possible to do.
That there is no law compelling school
boards to employ the graduates of the
State Normal Is matter which these
schools greatly regret.
The position taken by the REGISTER
is that the state should engage in no
enterprise that could be as successful
Iy carried TO completion by the private
citizen. Before the State Normal can
make out a case it must show that its
work could not as well be done by pri-
vate enterprise. and that state aid is
necessary to the existence of the eff
eient Normal School. viii any one