New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-29

hs year Ear the gtyfFsty c @fs given $4,000 add
I make no criticism OF these appropriations They
are for the hEbes pg6 GOO BY Tny G9n foe
instance, more centrally located, doing magnif-
DENTS Pcvns cent 1S from nth the Pubic funds Ther
too are NewYork and Columbia, towering aloft
Great me5E5poHs and s6sdaIns stsscaSl slS9Ty
cent appropriations from the public treasury.
ELIMINATION OF PRIVATE COLLEGES.
realize that this plan would work a revolution
IN higher EDUCATION But as surely as pnDG 5a h5p
private academies surely would county colleges
SYSTEM Of the State They would both cover the
same field: and the county college being free and,
to the doors of the students would gradually sup
private college would not disappear but be ex
banded into the greater university d Thousands Of
colleges. whence many times the present number
If efs nss e so TEga Of Gn 70 the
Union, Syracuse. Rochester Alfred and St Law;
forces in tho expansion OF the higher education OF
the State
COMPULSORY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION
Third-such an education should be universal.
and Of sssisfg bs ngheF ed9Sa
property welfare Of all the citizens are promoted
IT can be taught to all
1t should be free. As Governor odeH explained.
be free for towns and cities and counties well,
End be e pr 1T b solely BY the 81 or
the State and its minor political divisions should
9uestion ion i for legislative determination ''0'
that nses FOR @ aR
OF public education would do SO for four more II
circumstances permit, It coud be made two years
at first to be increased to four In our large cities
this education will be free for all at the PULLS
fsas0n whS ali Citizens GndeT
of age should not be compeled 70 comniete suc ot
other persistent lawbreakers and defiant foes Of the
commonwealth.
HIGHER INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION MEG
ESSARY.
Fourth-such education is necessary for our
intellectual good. The people of New-fo are now
100000 strong. Within generation they wal num-
p oeI many N oonnSGs aood the peoples the
Old World while thr9ugh hundre9 inand gs{es
NewYor is the loedstone OF the world that draws
ally the survival OF the fttest. from the poorest
farmland in Clinton County to the all PoW tasEa
that confront US fierce and relentless the ooInp pc,
% S6S eP thG ' but iI the me oe and
intellectually equipped experts OF the world, ,.,-.,.
common school education That Is our coastitn-
tionaI standard Of public intelligence Practically
IS st the 6onend ha eqps
Gpoa them? The truPS is for years we have
BY our mates Rs9sy bewee9
our intellectual and material growth ms
ASTOUNDING MATERIAL AND INTE%ECr-
UAL DISPARITY.
Go back a generation and contrast the expan-
sion OF hsh fe railroad cohstructSn and equip
ment for instance, has increased bS3 per cent;
freight carried. 900 per cent; street railroad con-
strctfon and equipment 200 per cent passengers
carried 79 per cent; assets OF life insurance com
nantes as per ceat resources OF trust companies
! 706 per cent, deposits L760 per c. MT and agere-
States has grown from $500 S 26i TO $3062 5000,
while high school attendance has ncr' ased lol Per
cent: high school teachers rs per cent, and stare
appropriations from 50. 751 10 1888 Meanwhs.
thousands upon thousands or POSITIONS OF prcnt
aud honor and trust. requiring the highest intel
deliberately awarded TO more competent citlzenry
from beyond our borders. Call the roll OF your
arnuaintances and you Will find manufacturers.
noarchanrs fnanciers, editors, teachers. lawyers
men in every business ard profession OF Hfe-tTom
without the State holding positions that might have
been filed by a native born citizenry.
7 am not arguing for the exclusion or any man
Fussian peasant or favorite OF sister state.
7 maintain simply that our citizens must have. d
higher average Intelligence, or 70 down before the
sTerior intellectually OF competitors and that
a rour-vear high school course, with four years
more optional In county college. would equip
tbe1o With such average Intelligence that they
ccTi5 r-1,rrete with citizeury in the world
EIf,b-Such an education is necessary Tor our
r,oraI GOOD desire misunderstanding ABOUT
tbs morality I advocate. / plead for no deistic
e+Sics I want no emasculated morals would
;, va the morality OF the high schools based square
10 ,Inon the Christian religion believe as Seward
5i5 that ''no democratic government can stand
49, nv the support Of Christian!ty This Is re
i;yiioUS neople and Christian nation II Is the
j,rii,zs+}on Of Christ, and not OF Confucius. or