The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-04
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On Tuesday, November 20, there was
an election in regard to school taxes
Or as President Barron of the School
Board said The election of yesterday
was vote of confidence by the people.
So it seems it was a confidential affair,
and what that confidential bureau con-
tanned the people do not know
! However, it is noted that the ladies
voted, or had their husbands vote for
them. Presumably the ladies thought
that they had gained the ballot, but in
confidence it might be said they did not
know it all But they voted-in con-
fdence-that things would go the way
that the gentlemen decided they should
go.
In elections numbers win. But the
ladies had better take notice of the at
termath. Will the ladies please listen.
1t is announced that the School Board
may purchase the Athletic Club and turn
it into a school for physical culture into
which every white child will be admit
ted. While there has been no announce
ment as to this, President Barron of the
School Board said that the election was
vote of confidence by the people, and
at the next meeting of the School Board
he would present the matter of taking
over the present Athletic Club and con-
verting it into a club for every child in
thu city.
Now, ladies, are you willing to throw
your children into the athletic arena to
become what? Hoodlums or renegades
from their homes, from their class in
life? Are you willing to turn your chill
dren over to the city to receive public
physical training at the expense of their
retrogression Are you willing to turn
your children out from under the Unfit
ence Of home? Out into the public club,
where they will have no home influence,
and will soon speak of their parents with
disrespect as ''the old man. or "the old
woman and when sorrow comes to you,
whose fault will it be? Will your chill
dren be to blame, or the parents?
It may be said in confidence, that if
the ladies really have any influence, if
the ladies are really intelligent enough
to vote, they will see to it that the pres
ent athletic club is not looped into the
public school regime
I he public school system, that is now
in vogue, does not i1npart learning, but
it does teach anarchy. The public school
regime is one of the crawfshes that is
the American Republic.
Now the School Board would institute
a club for children, which will take them
away from their homes, away from their
mothers influence. The gentlemen see
hi to term it physical training. But in
reality 1t is the conserving of brute force
IN the makeup of man, and the destruc-
ton of humane feeling. If the mistake
IS made-that of buying the present Ath-
ietic Club, and converting it into boys
club, the child will not be the future
man, but a deteriorated animal. II has
been prated by some distinguished law
yers that America may be the field for
the re-enactment of the French Revolt
ton. If such a pitiable farce should oc-
cur, the men of the American nation will
be to blame, whose vivid imagination
crawhshed below the level of American
ground, and educated the youth of the
country into anarchy.
A boys club in Shreveport, ladies' will
leaa your sons away from home, will
lead your sons to hold in contempt their
fathers and mothers, and if one is in
sntt'ted, the people may be confident that
Lney will witness the. passing of the
gentleman. There will be no more