The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
SENTIMENT IN THE STATE
AS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION.
A Large Number of Comments From the Press of
North Carolina Showing the Feeling
of the People.

of the People.

get It.'-TaylOrSVllle Mountain Scout.
Don't answer this letter unless you
have a good graded school, is the way a
man who was writing to Monroe about
moving here, concluded his letter. Peo
pie are moving about In North Carolina
a good deal now, and the prime object
sought is good school advantages for the
children. Monroe Journal.
1T will pay to make little sacrifice
for the children, and parents who do so
are heading the opposite direction from the
poor house, strange as it may seem to
some Keep the school going The Re-
cord, Madison county.
Yes, education is business. The great
est business in which the human family
can engage 1t is safe to say that ii
North Carolina had about $9,000,000 a
year ito spend on her schools (Which Is
about the comparative amount in pro
portion to population spent in Connect
cut, Pennsylvania and Ohio( nnI cad OF
only about $1150,000 as at preset, the
proportion of wealth and manufacturing
would undergo radical change in favor
fthfs State within the next twenty
years. '-Asheville Citizen.
I'VE should thank our Creator that the
day is fast dawnng when the children
OF today will have better opportunities
| for an education. "-Edenton Transcript
"A sentiment in favor of better schools
and longer terms is steadily growing in
Northampton, in fact our people have
made rapid strides in that direction dur
ing the past ten years. Roanoke Gro
wan Times.
Realizing the Importance of having
wide awake. public spirited men in each
section OF the county IN touch with us,
! your committee recommend the election
| of each school committeeman in the coun-
| ty to active membership in the GARD of
Trade, exempting them fro mthe payment
| Bot dues. "-Hendersonville Board of
| Trade.
Dare county distinguished itself the
| other day when 1t struck off the last
shackles of ignorance and led the State
| in the fight for better citizenship.
There has been a disposition on the part
oil some to credit this to the efforts Of
| individuals and to say that the people
are awakened to a need of better schools
| and school houses alone by the work of
/ men campaigning for that purpose. The
| fact is that Dare county was foremost in
voting the special tax was not due to the
! work done by any man or set of men;
but it was the result of a great popular
ground swell-a realization OF startling
conditions of illiteracy destined to de-
prive the rising generation of the sacred
| right of suffrage their Anglo-Saxon an
cestors enjoyed Elizabeth City Econo-
mist.
AS Carlyle has well said: 'That there
should one man die ignorant who had
capacity of knowledge, this / call trag-
aIx 1n., -,
times in a minute, as by some computa-
! tions it does" This tragedy is a daily
occurrence in North Carolina; this trag-
edy has held the State back in wealth,
! in influence; and now this day of agri-
cultural and industrial prosperity, this
tragedy alone mars the prospect of future
greatness. n the rural districts the cam
paign for good schools has only begun
Progressive Farmer.
There is no better index of public opin-
ion than the State and county papers OF
/ North Carolina. The above extracts from
! representative county papers from the
mountains to the seacoast furnish the
best possible evidence of the permanent
and ever increasing interest in public ed
ucatlon. This movement for better
schools and more money for them has evi-
/ bShtiy IOlHC " stay. nG CHlel CudIdG-
teristic of our North Carolina folks are
their conservatism and their reliability
They consider well before moving That
which moves them must appeal to reason
and common sense. Therefore they take
no backward steps in any great move
ment. t has been the constant purpose
of the State Superintendent and all Others
aiding in the direction of the educational
affairs of the State to appeal to reason
and Judgment not to. prejudice and pas
SION, to direct and organize the deep
seated interest and profound convictions
OF our people toward the successful ac-
complishment of what the people them
selves desire and demand. There have
not been nor will there be any extreme
or fanatical methods resorted to. am
convinced therefore, that there will be
no reaction but instead continuous, safe,
healthy growth in public sentiment for
education and in public demand for more
and better schools, houses an teachers
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