Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-10
PLEADS FOR THE TRUTH
Archbishop Ireland Makes a
Striking Address to the Edu-
cational Convention.
Declares Stories of cruelties to
the Filipinos Are False-Lies
Cause War.
Religion Does Not Enter Into
the School Work on the
Islands.

John Ireland of ST. Paul delivered a
powerful address at last nights session
of the National Educational Association
in the exposition building. He spoke to
an audience of not less than 10000, his
subject being Devotion to Truth. The
archbishop made a number of signifi-
cant statements bearing on the Philip
pines and the Spanish American war.
| Another feature was a notable address
by Michael Ernest Sadler. LII. d. of
| London, who spoke of educational work
in England, showing the close relations
ship between work and workers in the
two countries.
Archbishop Ireland in his address
said:
81 am one of those who see in the
sequence of the late Spanish-Ameriean
war the guiding hand of Mighty Prov
idence and the outburst of forces long
gathering In the bosom of the nation,
sure at one moment or another to leak
out in a resistless Self-assertion. New
ertheless, shall never deny that among
are to be numbered the exaggerated
statements, the lies, too, and the cal
Humnies, the ceaseless appeals to Wild
and reckless passion which disdsured
and disgraced the utterances of certain
snewspaper writers and of certain other
manipulators of public opinion. know
for a fact that the instructions going
from the office OF newspaper TO us
European correspondent read this wise:
Wire all that makes for war; nothlng
that tends to prevent or delay it,
Grave, indeed, were the causes demands
ing from America solemn act; strong
were the provocations given to ruftie
the national temper; yet. we can never
approve the methods in which false
hood and passion play large part; and
we cannot but assert that 1T were I'M
mensely better for the country if results
attained thru war should have been at
tanned without carnage and havoc of
war.
How unguarded and reckless and
how reprehensible many statements
published at the present time. as from
the Philippine islands, purportins TO
tell of dreadful deeds OF cruelty ana
Injustice, for which on close eXalnlna-
ton no foundation in fact is found.
shall name in this connection one in
stance which am particularly pleased
to censure. A little While ago certain
Catholic newspapers raised the cry
that proselytism was the order OF the
day in the schools of Manila, the chief
officials, it was said, and the teachers
in the normal being regularly ordained
ministers. who divided their time be-
tween the multiplication table and
tract reading. The matter was investl-
gated and it was discovered that the
chief officials and the teachers in the
normal We're not ministers and that
their own good sense, as We'll as the
strict rules of the government, held
them strictly to secular matters. Inc
who had admitted into
their columns such statements have
since, indeed. repudiated them; but
meanwhile much needless excitement
was raised and much harm done.
Archbishop Ireland concluded with
an eloquent appeal for devotion to
truth which, he said, was the chief vir-
tue of the teacher
President Beardshear is reported
much better, but his physicians will not
permit him to preside at any OF the
sessions. DR.. Jordan, superintendent of
the Minneapolis schools, gave the adj
dress of welcome at the special educa-
ton meeting yesterday afternoon. Df.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor OF
the telephone and president of the de-
partment, responded. w. t. Harris,
United States commissioner of educa-
ton, also spoke.
A striking paper was read In the kin
dergarten section by Mary c. May,
director of the kindergarten department
CT the State Normal School at Salt
Lake Utah, on defects in the teaching
of English. The greatest lack in the
department system she defined as poor
power of expression. poor spelling,
punctuation and composition, inability
to grasp all facts and lack of apprecia-
ton of values. The greatest needs she
enumerated We're training in clear, def
mite, brief power of statement. greater
simplicity of expression for teachers
and pupil, greater power of Illustration
and marked extension of oral combined
with written work.
In the department of business educa-
ton the president, /. o. Crissy, of the
regents office, Albany, N. Y, said that
a committee of nine had spent the year
formulating general course of proceed
ure and detailed courses of study for
business education in public high
schools. The demand for four-year
courses was so strong and showed so
decided trend toward practical bust
ness instruction that the committees
work was most important.
A. Winship, editor of the Journal of
Education, Boston, read a strong and
suggestive paper on the disciplinary
value of commercial studies as opposed
to the old idea that higher mathematics
was best for disciplining the mind.
In Illustration he said:
81 j. Hill is the greatest railroad
man on earth because he first carried
a bushel of wheat LOO miles for a az
cents and q ton of coal LOO miles for
25 cents. 1t was the plain multiplica-
ton table that made Jim Hill the best
disciplined man west of Chicago"
James Remsen Bishop of Cincinnati
aroused the enthusiasm of the second
airy education department by his de-
mand for closer system of supervise
ion of schools by the state He pointed