Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-10-05
STRONG ENDORSEMENTS
Of the Pending Constitutional Amend
ment-lssued BY the Conference
For Education In Texas.

1.-THE democratic party believes that
ignorance is a misfortune and that
education is a blessing, and we, there
fore, favor a wise and liberal financial
support of our public schools and all
our state educational institutions. We
favor the adoption of the pending
amendment to Section 8, Article VII,
state constitution, relating to public
free schools and commend the sup
port of said amendment to the voters
ton, August II, 1908.
I'VE favor the adoption by the peo-
pie of the amendment to Section 3,
Articlee7. of the state constitution re-
lating to free schools. This amend
ment, if adopted, will give the people
of the country districts the right by
law to provide for the erection and
equipment of good school houses, for
the lengthening of the school term
where practicable, and for the en-
ployment of better qualified and more
capable teachers The Texas Farm
ers' Congress urges every patriotic
farmer in Texas and all other citizens
to work for and vote for this amend
ment.''-Texas Farmers Congress,
College Station, July 9, 1908.
Whereas, the country public
schools of Texas are in sad need of
improvement, the school terms being
short, the school houses inadequate,
and the teaching unsatisfactory and
inefficient; and
Whereas, the Thirtieth legislature
has submitted an amendment to Sec
ton 8, Article Z, of the state consti-
tuition relating to public free schools,
which, if adopted by the people in the
November, 1908, election, will author
ize local self-government by the peo-
pie of the respective school districts
in establishing and maintaining good
schools, thereby making practicable
longer school terms where desired, |
the erection and equipment of COM
ment of more capable and better quail |
flied teachers, and the improvement |
of the schools in other respects; there |
fore be it
Resolved: That the State Board of |
Medical Examiners in regular session |
at Waco, Texas, June 80, 1908, here
by indorses the pending constitutional |
amendment, relating to public free
schools, and commends it's support |
and adoption to the citizens of Texas"
State Board of Medical Examiners,
Waco, Texas, June 80, 1908.
Whereas, the country public
schools of Texas are in great need of
the latest report from
the state department of education
showing that there were 1882 coun-
try children of scholastic age not en-
rolled in the schools; that the average
daily absence from the country |
schools was 262,946 children; that AZ
Of every 100 children were out of the
schools all of the time the schools
were in session, and that the average L
school term in Texas was only 116 II
days; and
Whereas, the Thirtieth legislature
has submitted an amendment to Sec
ton 8, Article z, of the state constitu-
lion, relating to public free schools, to
be voted on in the next general cleo
will authorize local self-government to
be exercised by the people of the re-
spective school districts of the state
ii providing better school houses, in
better teachers, and in
Engineering the school term; and will
abolish the two-thirds rule and substi-
ute therefor the majority rule by the
people, and make possible equal edu-
,ational opportunities for the white
children of Texas; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Texas Press
Association hereby indorses said pro-
)osed constitutional amendment, relat-
ng to public free schools and COM
nends it to the favorable considera-
ion of the citizenship of Texas, believ- i.
ng that its adoption will mark an
epoch in the history of our
itate." - Texas Press Association, :.
Mineral Wells, Texas, May 90, 1908.
Whereas, the constitution of Texas +