The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-06-17
SENATOR CUMMINS
RIGHT ON EVOLUTION
Education One Of The Chief Causes.
Governor Blease Sees Il

10 the EdltOr:-
Senator Albert B. Cummins, of Des
Moines, is right when ne says we are
nearing revolution. In addition to the
causes he ascribes popular education,
| and especially compulsory education,
plays part. The poet Cowper we'll
said:
From education as the ruling cause,
The public character its color draws
Our educators have insisted that our
! public schools made the good, indus
trious citizen. If they had the prospect
OF revolution would not be before us.
AS 1T is, the public schools have turned
out grasping, covetous, irreligious, idle,
vicious. criminal and socialistic class,
bent on everything tending to revolu-
ton.
In all our large cities the Juveniles
have taken on such criminal turns that
police, judges and sociclogists are at
| their wits ends to handle them. The
home and the parent are in the passing
with these gone every practical man,
every Christian man must confess the
country is gone. Governor Blease, of
South Carolina, is one of the many who
sees in our compulsory education a great
menace. His words are setting people to
thinking. In part he says:
Il am absolutely opposed to compul-
sorry education. Compulsory education
in the hands OF the State means the
DISRUPTION OF THE HOME, for it de-
thrones the authority of the parents and
places the paid agents of the State in
NJ hA 1T
ing family government. Those agents
STAND BETWEEN THE CHILD AND
THE PARENT-they represent the State
they are not responsible to the parents
They impress upon the minds of the
children the view of the State and vir-
tually say: We have taken you out of
bondage and made you free; we are Civ
ing you what your unnatural parents
would not give you
mo child on earth can be subject to
such influences and teachings and escape
imbibing the spirit of rebellion against
parental authority, and consequent dis
respect and ingratitude. Children are
too easily infected with the idea that
their parents owe them everything, while
they owe them nothing in return, and
iiance, who can compass by the widest
stretches of the most gigantic mind, the
condition that will follow? We desire to
see the standard of education raised in
South Carolina. We want every boy and
girl in the State to have every possible
opportunity to gain for themselves the
very best and highest degree of equip
ment for life; but We do not want 1t at
THE COST OF PARENTAL AUTHORITY
AND THE PEACE OF THE HOME.
Family government and parental re-
sponsibilty antedate all others, and it is
possible for WILD, EXTRAVAGANT,
AND MADLY ENTHUSIASTIC MEN,
who see theory and theory only to de-
stroy FAMILY GOVERNMENT, alenate
children from their parents, and force the
lion and wretchedness. The Bible says
a great deal about obedience to parents,
and reverence for parents, and believing
in that Book and it's teachings as strong
ly as | do, and for the sake of our child
zen, our country and for the future,
believe in LETTING THE PARENTS
KEEP WITHIN THEIR OWN CONTROL
THE REARING AND EDUCATION OF
THEIR CHILDREN"
Great is Governor Blease. After forty
years he is the first Governor to join me
in antagonism to this modern Tnquisition
FRANCIS B. LIVESEY,
GARRISON Md