The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-11-08

,"Dewey To Wedo Thank goodness
for the denouementl We all stand ready
"a congratulate Mrs. Hazen, and W. hope
sbe will hurry up affairs 80 the Admiral
c9n 90 into his new home, close the
door, hang his hat.up and LET the press
think, talk, and write about another
worthy. Just take most anybody, 70
praise for Dewey and abuse for Goebel
cease. We are so awiully tired of both.
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Every noble thought and deed places
us more in harmony with the currents Of
spiritual progress. Every ignoble
thought, every base desire, every I'M
worthy act, dwarfs our souls and retards
our advancement in divine life. Look
around you and see those who live a life
Of love, justice, high mindedness and
loyalty to all that is best in his or her
being. Don't they have abiding peace,
serenity and ioy2
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Shakespeare uses the word politician
five times and each time it is synonv-
NOUS with knave. We are to infer from
this that to the great bard, politician
ia one who sacrifices truth and honor
for policy. Well, 1 think If Shakes
peare we're on earth today he would
have much to say about American mU-
inequalities. We are governed by men
who hold their grip upon US through
and by statue law and were it not for
law the people could protect themselves
against their officers. As it is they are
powerless and are robbed legally
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Mrs. RebeCCa Harding Davis some
time last summer asked the question,
lis the Public school a curse2' She
found a vigorous defender for our public
schools in Mrs. Schuyler Van Reus-
selaer who replied to Mrs, Davis article
in "The North American Review" Has
the public school done its work.; HAS
education been always an unmixed
blessing to America and Americana"
Mrs DaYis also asked. These questions
are not as easily answered as loyal sons
Of Republic may suppose. Mrs Van
Rensselaer, replied that indisputably the
blessings outweigh the curse. Suppose
we try to fancy what the condition OF
our land would be today without our
free schools. Our Imagination shrinks
from the FIRST outlines of the picture
Mrs. Davis referred us to the Acadian
settlement In, Louisiana wherein few
people could read and write yet mark
ed degree Of happiness prevailed and
she was apprehensiVe that sChoolteaCh-
ers might be sent there to "open the
way for railways, business, and Civiliza
ton" Well Mrs. Van Rensselaer, wants
such place ''balbed wired' and placed
under a strict taboo 80 they may contin.
ne moral and cOntented without any
schooling. That was not a normal
community we might tell Mrs Davis.
1t was an RnachrOnism and as such newt.
ably destined to change. We have
known and heard of true gentle folk in
other lands aud other ages, who could
neither read nor write. Such persons
are unthinkable among ourselves and
just so is perpetuatiOn of pastoral ig-
norance and innocence in any locality.
Business, railroads, politics and neWspa-
pers touch all corners now in the modern
white mans world, and the elimination
of the sChOolteacher will not improve it.
The reason why any community is not
what it should be or all that we could
wish, is very complicated. But it is a
dangerous, mistaken idea to lay the
blame onthe public school,. Mrs. Davis
charges many evils to oveFeducation.
We must not expect too much Of our
public schools, or confuse and weaken
them by laying upon them burdens they
ought not to bear. The public school
system of New York, a system which has
especially difficult problems to solve, is
without doubt accomplishing great
things in the way of educating, asBimi
lating and AmeriCanizing the foreign
masses of the population. All poor
quarters in all large cities would present
a different picture were it not for our
public schools. Don't look at the def