The daily sentinel., 1906-03-13
GREAT CLASS CONFLICT
A REASON.

A REASON.
We were much interested in the
/ interview with Judge Lindsey TO the
public press in Denver. on his return
| from his eastern lecturing tour. taken
in the interests of his Juvenile court.
In that Interview he gave forth among
other striking comments upon signs of
4 the times the statement that great
class conflict was inevitable. this be
/ ing the joint Judgment of a confer
ence between himself. Lincoln Stef-
tens, the noted writer and other
men much in the public eye and de-
voted to the human uplift.
The conflict will result because of
/ the inequality of conditions. the gulf,
which is ever widening. between the
/ rich and poor He compares the con-
dilions of party of young people.
/ scions Of the over rich. who met him
| dressed in tuXedos and with cold
steely eyes. unsympathetic. and the
I eyes that greeted him from a con-
victs chain gang in the south. The
! hrst-one having no sympathy for the
degradation OF the other and the lat
ter enraged at the conditions that
gave them no opportunity TO rise.
And in The signs of this inevitable
conflict which may occur in our times.
" e see Atlf lfbhduit iAlllNN bl our own
contention and which is being upheld
by thinkers everywhere throughout
the country. who are not tied to the
science of matured pedagogy
II is proof beyond the question OF
contradiction, that our public schools
fail to meet the burden of the times
In giving a general elementary educa-
ton to the millions, that the very
few thousands may be graduated into
the universities.
All that great army of students.
who secure alone the education
which the public schools give them
must subsidize their desire for gen
eral education, that the few may be
given just sufficient of the feather
edge of "A polite education to lift them
| into the universities Does anyone
doubt that a great wrong is be
| ing perpetrated. when students who
have no hope of going beyond the
high schools, are compelled to take
the higher studies. when they have
not been thoroughly grounded in the
elementary studies that make for life
building.
Should the one hundred graduated
university students and less. of the
last ten years. be favored at the eX-
pense of the ten thousand who pass
the eighth grade and the high SCHOOL,
Would not twenty million students
grounded in the elementary studies
of our publis schools be greater com
pensation to the republic than one
hundred thousand graduated for nni-
versity training.
Would there he portentious class
conflict imminent were the nations
children given II public school educa-
ton and no more?
We may. with fun confidence in
the judgment of the people, let them
answer those questions for them
selves.
Nor do we pretend to insist that
thing. We, on the other hand most
and young woman, those whose par
ents can send them or those who must
make their own way. TO strive for a
college education. But even though
we should urge each and every
student to work for a higher educa-
ton, We insist that the mass, the mil
lions OF youth. who will become the
threatening millions of class fanatics,
should be given the elementary train
ing Of public school life. even though
the state must send an armed force to
compel their attendance. II would
be better to feed and clothe the child
rem. and give them and elementary
scool education. in which patriotism
should be "A large part, than to send
million of armed soldiers to repress
them. because the substance of our
/ school education has been wasted
in preparing the few for college