The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-04-07

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Ioit. bot since society was organized
( and civil government VBa Instituted
Ive have a' been ronfr bufne our
. pro rata toward building and ualu-
tanning court houses and iuIls and
/ paying the cost ~ the police aud SUI
ditial departments whether wo ever
occupied The jails. got arrested or
had g Law suit
Those who Instituted the free
school system probably thought that
the education OF the masses would
he OF great benefit to society as the
providing OF safe retreat for those
who are viciously inclined.
some are so bold as TO declare
that education tends to reduce
crime and TO say they prefer to
spend their money on the training
of youth rather than to feed them
in Jail after they become grown.
| have heard others say that pau
perism is not altog Their confined to
the educated class but on the CON
trary gets a larger per cent OF its
recruits from the unlettered. They
say every time you start young
man or young woman out trained to
become a victor in the battle of life
you reduce pauperism and cut down
the expense of government.
Some one has even said that a
government whose people are educa-
ted are liberty loving, patriotic and
pie are either the slaves of few
leading spirits or rebellious and al
ways engaged in civil strife and re-
belon against authority.
II has been intimated that the
man or woman who reads and thinks
is more cheerful and less selfish than
those whose field of observation is
confined to the narrow precincts Of
homo and self.
Some one has been mean enough
to assert that man Is an animal and
that mental development is the best
method of getting his baser instincts
under subsection.
It is a concensus OF opinion among
great many that q large number
of our citizens are too poor TO pay
for tho education OF their children
and Il seems that the majority Of
the people OF Texas have thought It
for the better interests OF the state
TO furnish free tuition, great many
men OF means seeming cheerfully to
contribute their quota Of the ex-
pense.
Brother Douglas, have talked
over your letter with several and
the above is about what they tell me.
| | thought ! had them when told
them you said the free school sys-
tenn originated In Yankeedom, but
several OF them said they were wear
Ing Boston made shoes and darned
II they were going barefooted be-
cause shoes did not originate In Tex
as. There Ia nothing original in what
have said here but II Is only CLEAN
ings from others. do not know
which Ia right, you or they.
w. II. Aday has lived on the Dun
away farm on Waxahachie for sew
eral years. works well, talks little,
makes good crops and pays for the
Enterprise cheerfully. j. M. Slayden
an old time died In the wool Ken
lucky democrat, but o Texan by
adoption, was In Waxahachie Mon
day and renewed Mrs, SIS paper H..
A. Wheatley Is an Industrious young
farmer on Ennis 8. Tuesday | came
down to Forreston and took dinner
with that widow. After noon and
after nap | went out to NJ A..
Boards residence on Waxahachie g..
1t being nearly night, accepted an
invitation to stay with him ana
family. At supper we had a mixture
OF turnip greens and pork. Al break
fast there was a large dish OF
SQUADS. had never eaten any be-