The National tribune., 1908-10-08

and was first eliminated, has such aw-
full examples as these:
Gen. Grant was born April 81, 1922,
and was fl years, two months and seven
days old when Vicksburg. Miss, was
captured. When did he capture Vicks-
burg?
Gen. VIM. T. Sherman was born Feb.
8, 1920, and finished his great march
thru Georgia Dec IS, 1864. How old
was he on that day?
Gen. Sheridan was born March 6,
1881, and made his famous ride from
Winchester to the battlefield at Cedar
Creek, Oct. 10, 1864. Ws.st was his
age?
John B. Hood Camp, U. c. ", which
leads in the protest against the Offend
ing pages. says:
This book glorifes Grant as the
conqueror of Vicksburg under the
guise of an innocent mathematical
problem; commentaries Shermans
march thru Georgia and Sheridans
ride from Winchester to the battlefield
of Cedar Creek, under a guise appar-
emily as harmless and yet has no prob
lem involving the genius and intrepidity
with which Lee. with a handful Of
soldiers, held practically the world at
bay for four long years; no problems
touching the superb achievement of
Jackson, when he swept like a whirl-
wind thru the Valley of Virginia, and
no calculation, either simple or abstruse,
as to the amount of wanton cruelty,
rapine and devastation which followed
the track of Sherman's awakened ven-
geance from Atlanta to the sea? ?"
The complaint further declared that
these historic arithmeticaI problems
are not only partisan and an unwar-
ranted use OF history, but an adroit at
"a rlf n nj OF no aac nf fn
leaders upon the minds of our South
ern youth, to the exclusion and the
oblivion of the great and devoted pa
triots who made our Southern history,
and whose names it is our sacred care
to engrave and keep forever upon the
tablets of our children's memory.
THE book is one which has ripened
in the atmosphere of Northern parti-
san sentiment and therefore is in vio-
lation of our statutes and unfit for our
Southern schools"
The arithmetics adopted for the Texas
schools are said to be in use in many
other States of the Union and Texas is
the first State to raise an objection.
the book was examined by many of
the leading educators of the country
before it was published and that it
was not surreptitiously thrown upon
an unsuspecting public without reyis-
ion and careful reading. The authors
declare that they believe the departure
from the stereotyped form of arithme-
teal problems makes study more in
teresting to the pupil and makes the
lesson easier. They believe. they say.
that the association of people and
events with the problems lends interest
to the work and makes the pupil take
more interest in the study
The matter has gone into politics.
Gov. Campbell has many bitter politi-
cal enemies, and only succeeded by a
narrow margin in being renominated.
These enemies say:
In the adoption of the Myers
Brooks arithmetic Gov. Campbell and
his board acted with full knowledge OF
the partisan matter contained in the
books. for I have at my command the
most positive and direct testimony that
the exact page containing the partisan
matter was pointed out to Gov. Camp
bell and his board while in official ses-
sion, and that prior to its adoption
Gen w. L. Cabell. Commander-in-
Chief, U. C. ". is aroused and prom
ises the full support of the order in
the matter complained Of.
We can well afford to laugh at this
ebullition as silly. No matter how
much these Texans try 20 hide histori-
cal facts, they are facts and will en-
dure to the end. Books and papers
will continue to be printed and read.
and they can not be kept from children
who have learned to read.
Grants achievement in taking Vicks-
burg will remain a most brilliant mill
tary performance. Sherman's March
TO the Sea win always be studied and
spoken of as an exhibition of the high
est strategy, something that will rank
with Napoieon's finest performances.
Sheridan's ride will thrill every gen.
Grafton as long as the English language
IS read and spoken. The proyineialism
Of the Texan protests will be taken
with a good hunlored smile, such as we
give to stories of French valor in the
war with Prussia. or Russian heroism
against Japan. The world is too busy
With accomplished facts to pay much
attention to what might have been.
Northern people are fiocking into
Texas in great numbers. building her
developing her mines, ex-
plotting her rich natural resources and
1oing far more than any other element
N the population to make Texas what
her destiny should be. one of the great,
States of the Nation. Have
.hese Northern people, who form
arge percentage of the population and
much larger percentage of the States
Enterprise and prosressiveness. no rights
hat the Confederate veterans are
pound to respect? Must their children,
,y force, be taught things which are
either not true in themselves c. still
more untrue by being out of relation?
i is weIl-knoWn axiom that a fact
ut of relation is much more dangerous
han downright lie, and the Confeder-
tie veterans in their fever to celebrate
themselves and the Lost Cause are try
ng to warp the minds of the young by
hings which must prejudice the child
all thru his life.