The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
AN APPEAL
For Education from Patriotic Wo-
 men.

The Capital City ladies to whom was intrusted the presentation to the Con- vention of the State Federation re- port on Education, have addressed the following letter to the Committee of the Constitutional Convention to whom the matter was referred: .
 Montgomery. Ala. June 5. 1901.
 Honorable J. B. Graham. Chairman of
 Committee on Education of Consti
 tutional Convention, Montgomery.
 My Dear MT. Graham-The Mont gomery women honored by Mrs. w. F. Johnston of Anniston with the request to present to the convention her report as chairman of Committee on Educa- tion of the Alabama Federation of Women's clubs. beg to unite with her in each of the five recommendations of ner report. Appreciating the action or the convention in passing the resolu- tion. of the urbane and kindly member "out of courtesy to the ladies to refer if to the Education Committee" we respectfully ask the Committee to judge the report on it's merits. as all others are judged. We are mindful that q special message from a distin- gulshed Alabama governor recom- mended the study of the Constitu- ton in the schools by girls as well as boys" urging that they are equally interested in good government and equally capable ot understanding 1t.
 NO period m the lire of any Alaban- it n IS so L=penuent on good laws as the perIod oI scuool ufe. We have u ellngtonS Wora that Waterloo Was won in the EnGIisn schoOis. and no seli res peCIlng man Will touay deny that at the mothers knee ana bv tILe teachers $ side was Lral1ed that Soutn- ern Valor wnose achIs !ements are un- eXceilcd.
 A political revolution which altered home life, economic and domestic con ditions, has thrown upon the State the nurture wnicn prlor so lSol was gwen by parents and private tutors 10 Southern children. Since the only edu- caLiou that is now assured the masses Is pubic eIucetion, how important that is should approximate that de- scrlbed py one Mno was IirsL i'll the hearts of the sons Of his conutTymen as teacher, while first Tn the father ! hearts as soldier and hero. Robert E. | Lee said: Education embraces the physical, intellectual and moral ln- strucLIun oI a chiId rom lnIaucy to manhood. 1t abases the coarse animal | emotion of human nature. and eAa1ts | the hIgncV faculties and feelings. Il | is impossible that the public school | SySLG4n OL any dSe UT SOuAbIy SONAA produce a greater than Lee: put. 1t ls
 not impossible that you can frame a system that will make Southern chlld- Ien compare as favorably with the | children of every other state as favor | aply as Lee compared with the greal ] uen or all the %orlo. IL is noI rne one summit or few mountain peaks that lnake a countrys climate purr ana bracing; it Is the general eIeva- I ton above the sea leveI. You mlgni
 have for every crisis in Alabama his tory men like the distinguished coni- I miutee chairman and others who com panion your President, but never till 1 you bring all her citizens all the time into sympathy with principles. patri-
 otism and culture like theirs. will yoL have a great state. When does the in
 dividual begin to be such a man? Th'
 answer is: When a child" Your asso-
 cIates in the convention know this al well as Brutus knew that 'Casca !Hai