The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-28
NOTE AND COMMENT.

vi ~ us esteemed contemporary. The Houston
Post. but solely to commend m, cbapSe ~
neart or that papar in discarding tho yaxone
ana embracing the right side OF the High
s Enc controversy. reproduces the following
from lts editorial columns Of this week:
Tho Post has long advocated such n nolicv
rs tnat now SAID to be suggested BY the Dali
ias school board. The Post has no fight 10
make on classical education but II feels thst
INC community owes II to the poor children
IN us midst; girls as well as boys to couip
mem nl, through tho agency Of the public schools
WIN special training In some direction
that VIII constitute th7ir capital in taking up
the serious battle of life They ought to be
aoIo 10 quit the public schools prepared TO
earn living at once in some common or use
lu line OF Industry, without having to devote
sun othsr years TO an unremuneratiye an
prentice hip. And every community not only
owes this service to its youth but TO Itself
as valuable investment The state too
as whole, owes this much to its children
Journal
The journal is as bad as the Fillpipos IN
claiming victory where the facts fail to
warrant It, The Post has not abated a parti.
Gle of Its desire to sec tho high school edu.
| cation Kept up to its present enviable stand
ard. 1t stil thinks II would be ths most un-
visa policy imaginable to follow Mayor Bra
shears suggestion to "cut down the appro-
priations for the High school and cripple
us EFFICIENCY. IL still thinks the attacks upon
the High school by tho Journal b6seless ard
| toolish, But The Post advocated industrial
education In the public schools long before
tho journal was born or Judge Brashear be-
came mayor. This kind OF education should
be added to the course OF popular instruc-
ton. not substituted for the higher educa.
ton. A boy or girl should have both the
practical and classical instruction so far as
they can be combined in the public schools
This is the position The Post has always
taken and still maintains. and it only re-
srots that the Journal and the mayor do not
seem to occupy the same broad ground.
The Bryan men constitute large aud IN
huential section Of the party. Some of them
bold that no is divine, others that he Is the
prophet Elias translated back to earth. and
others think IL sacrliege TO question his in
falltble wisdom. Some of these denocra,
Will tell YOU that they doubt whether tn
silver Issue ought TO be revived that BRYAN
may win easier without II. Their position /,
that 1t Is anything TO get Bryan In. IL doesn {
makes any difference whether he runs on
platform providing for the free and unlimited
coinage OF brass lacks, whether this or that
issue Is lodged or not. All things are iusti-
fable TO secure his election, This. of course.
is species of temporary madness. like the
demto OF hyste:ia aud hero worship which
Is bound to pass away,--Msmphs Commercial
Appeal.
, The reason why MIR. Bryan is SO strong with
the pcople--the common people, IL you will
Ia because they believe in him. believe that
he is honest aud sincere and that he will
not betrny them after he is elected as other
men have In the past This is a fact
which it appears difficult for papers like the
CommercIal-Appen to understand. but they
will tumble to it, after awhile.
Hen Jefferson Levy makes a serious den,
in tho popular impression concerning Thomas
Jenerson when H. declares that tbs Saeo
, OF Monticello introduced the finger bowl In
this country We are unable to recall any
thing quite warm since Colonel Fiji
Sterretts invasion OF Texas with dress suit.
Washlngton Post.
Our Washington correspondent has been
imposed upon 1t was not warm at al
that night in Texas. The inaugural ball was
in progress ana Bin had on the dress suit
all right enough but. on account OF certain
rumors which got around the early part OF the
evening, he locked himself in committee
room and positively and peremptorily denied
himself to "the boys who had prepared a
reception as became the OCCASION Bill pro-
J tests that he was quite unwcll but his
friends think that it was a case of stage
fright
|, This attempt of tho Galveston News WASH
ington CORRESPONDENT to compare Cove nor
permit tho use Of cavalry company to aid
the sherin and city marshal Of Laredo "a
8 keep order until the arrival Of state troops.
with the National rovci nmtnt sending troops
- into Illinois over the protest OF that COVER.
!, nor, IL worse than ridiculous. -Nayasota ES-
= amrcr,
o Tho Examiner is right, There "a no simi-
n larity at all in tho I've css's'
e The Houston Post is olamorous for the an
n reSatton OF sufticiont continuous territory TO
raise the population OF the city 10 5000 when
the census is taken. rhs Post offers the sug-
gestlon that whom this Is done II will SHOW
that the city OF Houston Is many thousaads
= above any other city in tho state All this
Is moonshine. Lot HoustoA annex all that
The Post asks. then when the scholastic cen %
l. gus Is taken. the reeistratirn OF voters mad
n and all else that really lie the trua popu
" latiou OF our clites, It Will be seen that Sa1
n Antolio as she Is outranks her lust the sa ne.
: This city does not depend uuon forced cen
sus, but upnn scholaNtic and franchise regis
trations.-San Antonio Light
s. 1t is answer sufficient q thu above q.
n pclnt out tho fact that San Antonio has thir.
= ty-sx square miles in its Incorporated limits.
while Houston has only nine square mics
In taklng the scholastic census. or In the
u registration OF voters. the city lines ara
u strictly adhered TO- but In the city director s
e issued by Messrs. Morrison q Fourmy--who
> get them out for all the Texas cities on the
. same basis or count--the suburbs are taken
u in, aad by this method Houston Is far ahead
OF San Antonio. The truth OF the matter Is
"a Houston Is tho most populous city In the
v State. and n we are prevented from show
ing up % such In the Federal census TO be
taken next year It will ho due to selfish
o mossbacRism right here or hereaboutS
n ~
e Il Is said that the Hon. 10, W, Bailey is
/. getting himself In trim for a senatorial Ell
countfr with Chiltoa Well bank on old Jce
Savers winning the fight without ever enter
i ing the rine. -Sabina Sentinel
i This governor has great many friends and
= admirers who would like to sce him 20 4
the senate, and who think that he would b.
Of more value to his state there than in any
/ other positisn. But It 10 early YET to In
. dulSa IN predictions. risnsy Of time for io.s