The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-10-26

ii'S SNhihShOOu III NelSeI, no one
will deny. Our lumbermen can
hardly fill the orders that crowd upon
them for material for the construc.
ton of new residences and business
blocks. More teams and people are
found upon our streets in single
day now, than were seen in week
eighteen months or even year ago
But let no one suppose that the
proof of prosperity is found in new
dwelling houses and business blocks
alone. There are other deeper and
more lasting tokens. Among the
most important of these are the in
creasing educational advantages of
our city.
Our public schools are steadily ad-
vancing in improved methods and
the quality of work done in them.
They can hardly be surpassed in the
state. Weiser Academy, from small
beginnings gs-und'r the earnest efforts
of its president, Rev A g. Upton,
and the efficient corps of teachers he
has gathered about him-has forged
its way to the very front rank among
the denominational schools of tie
state Already the influence of its
graduates is being felt for gooa
One is teacher in the public schools
of Weiser Others have gone to col
leges in other states, and it is safe to
say that they will honor the state in
which they lived and the academy
where they prepared for college.
Last week another long step WAS
made in educational progress. "The
Idaho Industrial Institute" was m
corporated Its purposes and pros
poets are set forth in circular, 6
part Of which we quote
1.-The American people believe in III,
education of the masses
The education of the head and heari
has been earnestly advocated by oul
wisest and most far-seeing philanthrop
lists rs the surest safeguard of the stat'
and the nation.
The public schnol system of the
country is equal, if not superior, 10 tina
of any other country in the world.
Our schoo are STEADILY improving il
the quality and quantity of the work
done
In many of the high schools young
men and women are fitted to enter co
lego. so that in the larger towns ant
ci7ies the nriyate school or denomina
tiona academy is not really needed ano
;s sunnnrted with increasing d ficully
arhe state universities are fast taking
r.nl, with The besl colleges in tn land
n', ,,,i" at,,;,hst.nding ,be increasing ef
fcirncv of The stale schools, and tn,
iS;,, noi.nS; ,uori, done NV ihe denomina
,iTnal academies and colleges The sac
- ~ ,,.,',,s ,b.I oulv'a small frac; ioi
"a orVI the , ~nmng % neople Who ought TO receiv
eom.tLinp more than a partial. common
sohnnI SUI, ,'7 ed7,cation are fnund in all tn
, ,c,d.mies collepes and higher stat
"ohoois "o'o cmnbin, di
ma r.nson is not hard to find. Th
trnth is the qreat mass of Young people
esneciallv in the frontier states of tn
80 ara tno noor to NV board and tut
lion NJ the academi and colleges,
,,oard ,lnnn .t the State SCHOOLS. remot
Sro,,, ,heir homes Another cause is Ill
:. ;d.a ,Lnrminglv nrevelapt among labo
;ug ne,nlr. that If their children are
hrcnme .hewers of wood aud drawers {
= water they need but very little educi
,;oni So il comes to pass that betwet
the educated classes and the toilir
u,esses there is A great gulf fixed An
il is tn be feared that this gulf is grow
ID inc wider and wider.
T. can hardly be disputed that u
e. greater need of our country today is mo
Farmers. mechanics business men al
- iahoriug men and women of all kind
=, who know how to perform some usef
N manual labor well, and at the same til
have minds so trained that they c.
think clearly and rightly upon the pra
" tcal questions of the day. 10 he
bridge the chasm and supply this gre
need. The Idaho Industrial Institute
called into being This school, locat
. near Weiser Idaho, is 10 do for the you
NJ. people Of Idaho and the adjoining STA
what Hampton and 'Tuskegee are {
ing for tbe co.ored Young people OF
.onth The plan is al once simple a
W nraclical. A large tract of suitable la
has been secured.
sbanties or shacks for first buildin
. which will be used as class rooms, q
mi,or,es. boarding halls, shors,
Then Invitations are to be sent out to
Young people far and near to come
w ret an education, without money
without price. The students are u, ~