El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-12

which it is overrun. on farms They
were compelled to be educated away
from labor in the first place, and they
are now to be compelled back to It.
Boys that ran away from school and
home to undertake honest labor are
arrested and sent back to school 20
get their minds and muscles educated
out Of work"
Governor B1ease, OF South Carolina,
has also made a statement which
ranks him with The Anticipated minds
OF bygone eras; when might was syno-
nymous with right; and when to own
child or animal, meant the right to
misuse, starve, beat or neglect, the
human or dumb chattel, and no one
had power to prevent
The objection of the last named In
dividual reads as follows:
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 control Of the children thereby des-
troying family government Those
agents stand between the child and
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 giving you what your unna tural
parents would not give YOU
PafernaI Responsibility.
Family government and paternaI
responsibility antedate all others, and
1t is possible. for wild, extravagant and
madly enthusiastic men, who see
theory and theory only, to destroy
family government ALLEVIATE children
from their parents and force the home
into a scene of strife, rebellion and
wretchedness The Bible says a great
deal about obedience to parents and
reverence for parents, and, believing
in that book and its teachings as
strongly as do, and for the sake of
our children. our country and for the
future, I believe in letting the parents
keep within their own control the rear
ing and education Of their children"
If family government and parental
authority had never been interfered
with by advanced thinkers and wise
humanitarians the race would still be
savage. and mound builders and cliff
jewellers would be our highest types of
civilization
If children had not been aided and
abetted to seek and find better creeds
equations than their parents gave
them. there would be no arts, no in
ventions, no progress in the world
today.
Whenever a parent manifests an un-
selfish desire for his child to make
the utmost possible of his life, par
entail authority and family govern
ment" meet no obstacle unless it is in
the child, who is blind to his own best
interests and prefers play to study.
And so in his case. as in the case of
children sent to work at a tender age
by their parents. compulsory educa-
ton is the outreached hand of God to
help uplift humanity
Educating a Child
There is nothing holy, nothing great
nothing noble, about the bringing of
the physical body of child into life
unless its parents have high ideals and
a sense of responsibility in regard to
the mental and moral DEVELOPMENT Of
the child
Any insect, animal or fowl can pro-
duce offspring
The fact that a man and a woman
have produced a child gives them no
right whatever to direct that chiId's
life in manner which stunts its BRAIN
warps its understanding and endangers
its physical well being. In Manila,
shortly after the United States took
possession, a native man was cruelty
beating an overloaded mule
When an agent for the Humane So
ciety arrested him he became violently
angry He said the mule was his prop
erty and no one had any right to in