Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-12-25
UrQinQ a School Strike

and official head Of the city schools. 1t was a de-
plorable situation and one well calculated to arouse
active opposition. Instead, however, Of taking a sens
IDLE course and removing the members of this board
and, reinstating the superintendent, a number of
prominent Chicago people proposed a general
strike of the school children with the purpose OF
forcing the board to re-employ Mrs. Young.
Strikes are demoralizhng and are justified only as
a lac: resort. AS an industrial weapon they are much
in favor, with q certain class of WOrkingmcn, but
broadtlinking people are doing all they Can in a
legitimate way to discourage strikes and place them
in their proper light before the public. In view OF
this tendency it was Il sad mistake to propose a
strike Of school children in Chicago as a measure of
reprisal against ans DHahd4sg school board. And it
is doubly deplorable that one of these citizens who
was urging a strike Of the children is the lieutenant
governor of Illinois, Barrett OHara. He is quoted as
saying that he believes the fathers and mothers OF
Chicago should remove their children Immediately
from attendance at the public schools "as a rebuke
to the underhanded and unprinciplel methods by
which Mrs. Young was removed" AS a lame quail.
fcation of this position Mr.. O'Hara further says he
realizes ''that such a procedure would be drastic and
a certain harm would be done to the children, but
education cannot benefit them unless. we safeguard
their ideals by insisting that honest and capable
public servants shall not be removed from office at
the whim of political spoilsmcn employing methods
ludL WOulS1 ulSSldCC tuc udIScoL dSt u ldoHdiA'y. n
" Mr.. OHara' is wrong. Instead OF safeguarding
the ideals of the children, what he proposes to do
is to %inculcate in them a spirit of resistance and re-
bclhon. lie is unfolding the strike principle as the
right way to settle differences which the children do
not understand and cannot, look upon with mature
reasoning. That principle universally taught would
raise up q nation Of strikers, who being advised to
use this weapon in one instance, would be sure to
consider it legitimate whenever they had a zeal or
fanced grievance against any established authority.
There is "a much better way Of proceeding. II, as
is so strongly intimated, there is crookedness in the
Chicago school board, an action in the courts to GUST
the offending members would be the right and logical
course. After all, it was the fathers of Chicago who
elected these board members. The fault can be
traced directly back to it's source. The public schools
belong to:all the people. Therefore, it would be weak
and foolish to abandon them. even temporarily. The
children Should be kept in school and out of the
fight. The taxpayers should GUST the members of
the board by due process Of law, give Mrs. Young
back her position and see that the schools are run
properly. Such a program would not and should not
involve the children in the affair at all.
The tendency toward the use OF missiles makes
II seem a lity that a bomb is so much cheaper than
an egg.
TIN hungry Tammany tiger gets little satisfaction
out OF the fact that Messrs. Mitchell and Mccall have
been dining together.
Political prominence on the part Of Elihu Root
was once regarded as favorable to Theodore Roose.
velt's prospects. But that was many years ago.
3s%a
The Presidents message calls for legislation sufa-
Client to occupy the time of congress for another full
year, and congress knows the President we'll enough
to fear the worst.
Clifford Pinchot is glad that Prendergast turned
back. If desertions from the Bull Moose party make
Clifford joyful, he ought to be the happiest nan in
the country before long. @@
The Official figures 1asoxs Dbl $685. was spentsin
the effort to elect the Full Moose candidate for gov.
ernor Of Massachusetts,. Maintaining q Democratic
aid society comes high in several ways.
But Mr.. Bryan was not the first secretary of state
to earn money in addition to his salary. Secretary
Root did it, too--but not OH tho Cllautauqua circuit.
The Nobel peace prize brought him $4,000.
President Wilson has a comprehensive program"
Of legislation, and yet&it does not include all the
pledges Of the Baltimore platform. For example, iii
none ofehjs messages ~Eas>the President reminded
Congress Of this plank: favor a single Prcsi-
Dental term, and to that end urge the adoption of an
amendment to the constitution making the President
Of the United States ineligible for reelection, and
we pledge the candidate of this convention to this
principle It must sorely grieye that unsel6sh pa.
triot, Secretary Bryan, to sec this most important
declaration wholly ignored.
Night schools of cosmopolitan character are by
no means confined to %congested centers in the east.
At Gallup, Mckinley county, New Mexico, the follow.
ing nationalities were represented in a recently estab.
lished evening school: American, Spanish, SlavOn-
ian. Italian, servian, Austrian. German French, Dan
tsh, Swedish, Irish, Scotch, English, and Cherokee
Indian. Twenty-Five different occupations were rep
resented. In ages the pupils ranged from Is to 62.
Many Of them desired the ordinary elementary
branchmsFFDut there was also q strong demand for
such subjects as bookkeeping, shorthand. typeWriung,