The age-herald., 1901-06-09

cations Some of these latter are:
 Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho.
 Second-For a right of local taxation for school purposes we have many precedents and the logical plea that authority, coupled with responsibility, should meet demands as they arise. On this subject the following states have spoken:
 Rhode Island, New Jersey, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia, Texas Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon- sin, Missouri, Georgia, Connecticut, New York. West Virginia, Kentucky, Florida, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla homa, Idaho California.
 Third-Yn urging a limited measure of compulsory education we can but plead that God-given maternal instinct which Knows that childrens rights are sacred, and we appeal to tn eholy potential fa- therhood implanted by the Father of us all who Is at once the author of parental love and universal law. Not the crack of the party lash, not the demagogic clamor of ''paternalism." can deter Alabama from protecting her citizens-and most of all, her helpless future citizens, boys and girls orphaned sometimes by the ignor- ance, neglect or injustice of parents who still live, or orphaned by reath's hand. Not only compulsory education, but pun
 
 lect 1t, is the law in many states.
 Finally, you have promised to take no backward step in education" and Ala bamians are like Romans that have spoken the word and will not palters."
 Long after "the high court of force had sealed it's dtcree and plotted the Confed- eracy out of the Armament of nations" Union and Confederate veterans met at Chickamauga to mark with enduring monuments where they had shed each each others blood" But, at the dark mo- ment when our arms were overpowered, the words spoken by our great command CT, Lee, were: Let us go home and cul tivate our virtues" In the College of Lexington he set an example to teachers and patriots throughout our desolated land. Raise the monuments to dead heroes we will. Shall we not also build schools and frame laws that will shape the chil- dren of Aalabama into living characters like those We love and celebrate? Give us schools that will "cultivate our virtues"
 In tht refernces to the Digest we pre- sume not to point out to you who already know them, the laws of other states; but, we thereby seek that consideration due to women who carefully examine the legality and justice of a claim dictated in the first instance by the sentiment of humanity. In the citation from Governor w. c. Oates we quote a statesman and soldier whose chivalry i1lumined many a battle in the war between the states, and whose wisdom has won and will win in many a political contes tfor the rights of the peo- pie one forbidden by circumstances to be your official head, but by personality and record a guide and leader among the framers of law.
 Women today require not that degree of courage which upheld Esther going, in the effort to save her people. to the court of Persian king, sublimely saying: "If perish, I perish" Yet, 1t is the same spirit of the true woman, be she Hebrew or Gentle, which ever courageously pleads in the court of law for justice to | the child.' tH