Woman's enterprise., 1921-09-16

"By far the largest single class
white people who settled in the Eng
|lish Colonies in America-larger per
hasp than all the free Puritans ant
Cavaliers combined, was composed O
white bond servants
i This statement is absolutely untrue
There we're very few bond servants il
| New England and practically none il
the South outside of Virginia. Bono
servants were quite numerous in tht
Middle Colonies, but at no time were
they anywhere near the largest sin
gle class in America. This incorrect
statement and the proceeding one are
part and parcel of the authors at.
tempt to arouse class prejudice by
emphasizing the "poor down trodden'
common people.
Pages 4l-52 are strongly calculated
to upset child religiously and cause
him to break loose from all religious
anchors.
Page So enumerates many leaders of
the American Revolution and not a
single Southern man is named.
Page 103 is another strong effort to
lead pupils to believe that the splen-
did American Revolutionists were
mostly the offspring of serfs and
bondsmen.
Page l0S teaches pupils that the
New England Colonists were the only
ones who were in danger from the In
dians. Recall, if you please, the In
dian troubles in Virginia, the Tusca-
rora War in North Carolina, the
Yemassee War in South Carolina, and
other Indian troubles in the South).
Page 143 gives very much more
credit to and recognition Of the ef-
forts of Thomas Paine in behalf of
American independence than it does
to Thomas Jefferson, who not only
wrote the Declaration of Independ-
ence, but also a pamphlet on the
Rights of Man, which so stirred the
American Colonists that the British
Government proclaimed jefferson a.
traitor. Is this discrimination in fav-
or of Paine because he was foreign.
er and an atheist, both Of which the
Socialist prefers to loyal d-blood-
ed American?
As evidence Of the intent tG make
it appear that in the Revolutionary
War the North won our independence,
not the meagre treatment Of thel
South's part in that struggle. OIL
twenty-seven pages devoted to the
War, twenty-five pages
are devoted to events happening in the
North and only two pages are devoted
to events happening in the South. His
torians correctly regard the battles Of
Kings Mountain, fought by Southern
,rs, as the "turn of the tide" of the
War, and the battle Of Guilfold
Courthouse, also fought by Southern
,rs, as the greatest single factor in
bringing the war to an end, since it
made possible the capture Of Corn
wallis at Yorktown. Yet the text
yives less than a sentence to Kings
and single brief sentence
% Guilford Courthouse. The partisan
2ands of the South, which for per-
od of two years were the only patriot
forces that were doing any fighting
anywhere in the United States, are!
not mentioned at all in the text. Com
pare the page after page Of descrip-
ton of engagements occurring in the
North during the Revolution, some Of
which were only skirmishes.
Pages 170-171-173-174-175 are de-
voted to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States, and not single word IS
said in support of the Constitution,
but throughout there is an insidious
attack upon our organic law. Page
l74 makes it appear that the contest
over the adoption of the Constitution
was between the classes-the rich
and the poor, whereas the question
was one purely of Estates Rights"
and rich and poor were to be found
On either side of the question.
On page 176 we find the following
statement: "The new Government
which had been wrung from a reluct-
ant nation, set out on its great ex-
pertinent"
Page 1872 leads the pupil to believe