The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-05
INDIVIDUAL OPINION

| MANY people are more anxious for
their children to vote than they are to
educate them,' said one of the ablest
| and most prominent attorneys in North
| Carolina the other day One difficulty
| heretofore in educating all the people of
the State has been the Indifference of
parents toward the education of their
! children. With the adoption of the con
stitutiOnal amendment parties who wish
| their children. now under thirteen years
of age. to vote will see to it that they
avail themselves of the educational ia
cilities furnished freely by the State.
| The desire to vote will operate as n
| compelling incentive to education. The
political parties will become teaching or
CARNATIONS and every politician of all
| parties will be an advocate of popular
| education When the Australian ballot
was adopted i'm New York. Tammany
| Hall held night schools and instructed
| its voters to such point that they were
enabled to vote more accurately and
more quickly than the best educated citi-
| zens OF New York. In this way politics
| may be made to serve IL better end than
| good people of Il thoughtless kind are
upt 10 attribute ~ IL. LIE
amendment is the way to have the most
enlightened people in the United States.
And with this enlightenment will come
| an industrial activity which will push
| us to the forefront of the nation
Speaking touching this identical point,
Hon. Charles Il. Aycock said recently:
1.-The amendment expressly provides
| and the descendants of those who could
| vote in 1861 can forever vote in North
| Carolina, whether they can read or not
| This provision protects every white man
| and every white boy over Is years of
| age. except perhaps a few foreigners.
| Children now under IL years of age will.
| in order to vote when they become II.
| have to learn to read and write To
meet this emergency the Democratic
| Legislature increased the school fund
100000 this year. 1t will continue to
| increase this fund till by 1908 we shall
| be almost if not quite free from illiteracy
among the young, at least. so far rs the
whites are concerned.
THE Democratic party. through its
| amendment. gives every white man and
| boy over IL years of age the absolute and
ungueStionable right to vote in consider
alton of the inadequate facilities which
| we have heretofore had for education,
| and it says TO every child under 13. We
undertake to provide you with full oppor-
| tunity to learn to read and write and in
| addition to this free gift from the State
we offer as Il prize for learning to read
! and write participation in the govern,
| ment Of the State.
Can any man doubt the splendid re-
| suits OF this provision: Each party will
vie with the other in providing for pub
| lie schoOls-all other expenses of the gov
| eminent will rigidly scrutinized and APP
| preparations will be held down TO the
| economical basis in order to save money
with which to educate the children of
| the State.
This political virtue will become like
| wise Il private virtue and citizens every
where in the borders of the State will
| begin to cut off useless and injurious eX
penses in order that their children may
| become yeritable kings and rule the
| State. Economy. self-sacrifice, the seek
| ing to work ont through our children
| greater and better things than we have
been able to do will be some Of the fine
results which shall come to us from this
provision
THE tide is too great. we can't stem
We've been taken completely off our
| IT," said a dyed-in-the wool State official.
| feet and washed to sea. clinging to
wrecks. It's beginning to look as if the
| white Republicans are about as unani-
| nous for the amendment as the Demo-
Gratis. The News and Observer Sunday
| spoke of the Republican party drafting
candidates in the next campaign. That's
| the word. It'll have to be done if we
| fight the amendment. | myself, am in
| favor of it, but of course I'll have to go
with my party
Writing to the New York Journal.
ex-senator John J. Ingalls, has this to
say of the war in the Philippines:
"The conscience of the nation is not
| Interested. The appeal to patriotism is
not strenuous. The field of operations is
| far. and the advantage of victory is du
bious. questionable and remote. Fight
| ing Aguinaldo and his savage hOrdes is
| like a contest with wolves. They assem-
| Bile and dispense and re-appear uncon-
| scious of defeat and indifferent to death.
| They are reinforced by the hostility of
nature by the fatal energies of the air
.nfesting where they fly and poisoning
where they repose People are
! beginning to wonder why we paid So
200, coo to Spain. and if the North Amer
lean Indians held civilization mt bay in
hand -to-hand fight for two centuries.
when will the ten million Filipinos be
pacifed? Were it not for the humiia-
ton and ignominy of retreat and sufren-
| der. there would be an immediate de-
mand for evacuation, but pride of race
| and dreams Of destiny and hunger for
| the horizon and passion for empire come
| in, and the repleted regiments will be hill
ed up, and the administration supported,
even to the point of DISCRIMINATING the
| insurgents"