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TUESDAY, AUOUST 17, lSG'J.
TUE
WOMAN QUESTION IN THE
LABOR CONGRESS.
Miss fcrsAS 1?. Anthonv ninilo her appear
ance yesterday ns tbe disturbing element in the
National Labor Congress, and tbe Congress,
after hovering undecided for a time between
gallantry and a desire not to be overwhelmed
bvthe invincible champion of woman's rights,
took the only course they could with safety
to themselves, and excluded the lady from
participation in their deliberations. Miss An
thony, however, is not a woman to be re
pressed in such a summary manner as this,
even by so highly intellectual a body as the
Labor Congress, and sho consequently made
a speech, two or three of them in fact, in
which, if she did not get the better of her
opponents, she at least managed to have the
last word. Miss Anthony preseuted herself
at this Congress as the representative of the
Working Women's Association of New York,
but the Committee on Credentials, after
mature deliberation, rejected her on the
ground that her papers were not made out in
proper form, and that the association she
proposed to represent was not a labor organi
zation, but in reality because they did not
care about the pleasure of her company.
Miss Anthony in her two or three speeches
explained her position at length, and if the
matter stands exactly as sho stated it, it is
difficult to see why her association was not
entitled to representation and a hearing as
well as the other labor organizations of the
country. Tha question of finding means for
women to earn their living in a respectable
and profitable manner is one of the most im
portant of the day, and it has a bearing upon
the good of society which demands for it the
consideration of all thoughtful men. The
trouble, however, is that Miss Anthony and
her co-laborers in the woman's rights move
ment have entirely too many irons in the fire.
Women's work and wages is even less than a
secondary consideration, and neither in this
nor in a good many other things that they
(ulk about do they appear to know what they
really do want or whut the actual necessities
of women are.
One of the delegates yesterday, in protest
ing against Miss Anthony's admission to the
deliberations of the Congress, contended that
the Working Women's Association of New
York, which sho professed to represent, was
an organization of male and female agitators
for the advocacy of female suffrage, and that
it was not in reality a labor organization.
There is a good deid more truth than poetry
in this, for Miss Anthony, Mrs. Cady Stanton,
and the other masculine women who thrust
themselves forward on every conceivable op
portunity, affect to believe that if women had
tho right of voting, wearing breeches, and
aping the manners, good and bad, of tho
masculine portion of creation generally,
plenty ot worn ana remunerative wages
would follow as natural consequences. Female
suffrage is and has been the main plank in the
woman's rights platform, and it is lugged in
on all occasions, in season and out of season,
notwithstanding tho fact that it has practi
cally been repudiated by nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of every thousand women in
the country.
That the right to vote would increase
woman's wages is a notion as crude and
illogical as any of tho absurdities advanced
by some of tho nialo participants in this
congress, and this is saying a good deal for
its worthlossnoss as a practical question; and
it is a very good thing that Miss Anthony was
not admitted to tho deliberations yesterday, as
there will bo enough uonseiiso perpetrated by
the band of political economists at the
Assembly liuildings without speeches from
her every five or ten minutes.
Tho determination on the part of its ad
vocates to have notoriety at all hazards has
been the bane of tho woman's rights move
ment, and tho really important questions
connected with it have been set aside or
brought into discredit, in order that a set of
noisy agitators, whoso ideas are frequently as
nusty as they are crude, may keep themselves
before the public. It is such as these that
have forced the earnest women who deplore
tho disabilities of their sex to refrain
from having uny connection whatever
with the clique of sluiip-toiigued viragos
who mix up women's rights, free love, suf
frage, lubor, breeches, wages, Republicanism,
Democracy, temperance, socialism, and othor
questions, into a hodge-podge that respecta
ble people stand back from aghast.
As for the Labor Congress, it has appa
rently uh much as it can attend to with tho
knotty (mentions that have been and will bo
brought l.efure it for discussion and decision,
without Laving ui additional complication to
deal w ith iu tho nhapo of woman's rights; and
the rejection ot Mihh Anthony's credentials
is the less to be regretted, us it will give the
lltviiutinii a topio to vituperate upon for
many weeks to aomo, and we may rest assured
that it will receive full justice at the hands of
the editress of tbut bhect.
TUB TWO NATO LEON S.
Sunday was tho centennial anniversary of
tho birth of tho great Napoloon. Tho event
was celebralod in Franco with Appropriate
festivities, and by an act of amnesty on tho
part of tho Emperor towards all press and
political offenders, prisoners convictoJ of
evasion of taxes, deserters from the army and
navy, and sailors who had abandoned their
ships.
Tho first Napoleon was the wonderful but
legitimate product of tho French revolution.
Of all tho men who figured during that
terrible period, ho was the only one who ap
peared to have a right understanding of tho
situation, or the ability to grapple with tho
shifting events and ideas of tho day and
mould them to his purpose The elevation
to tho Imperial throno of this plebeian, who
did not possess tho merit oven of being a
Frenchman, excited tho awe and wonder
ment of the other powers of Europe no
less than their hatred and rage. He com
pletely upset the old notion of the divine
right of kings, and whilo wielding his sceplro
with despotic rigor, ho mado a boast that his
right to tho throno was obtained from tho
people themselves. Whilo treading them
under foot with an iron heel, leading them in
army after army to battle and slaughter, until
finally ho and his system were crushed
together by the united forces of all Europe,
he nevertheless obtained a hold upon the
affections of the people such as no monarch
has obtained before or since; and his sudden
downfall was as remarkable as his elevation,
His darling dream of bequeathing the throno
of France to Lis son came to nothing; but that
there was a vital principle in Napoleonism
was shown by the revival of tho empire under
his nephew, tho grandson of the discardod
Josephine. There was a poetical justice in
this occurrence which has not failed to elicit
commendation from those who are no admi
rers of Napoleonism.
The first Napoleon was a man necessary for
his period: he reduced order out of chaos,
and with the intellect of a great statesman
he not only rescued France from tho ruins of
the revolution, but by the encouragement ho
gave to science, an, manuiaciures, com
merce, and all the devices that could promoto
the welfare and prosperity of the nation,
he cave her a fresh start and
position as tho first nation in Eu
rope mat sue nas continueu to maintain
until tho present day. Napoleon was a
strange compound of liberality and selfish
ness: he used his enormous power to promote
the welfare of the people, aud to make France
great: but his leading thought, after all, was
his own aggrandizement and the perpetuation
of his dynasty.
The second empire is but a reflex of tho
first. It is founded on different principles
and under different circumstances. The present
Emperor obtained the throne by trick,
intrigue, and violence, and he lacks that per
sonal magnetism that attached so many to
his uncle. Tho policy which was well adapted
to the condition of France at tho end of the
last century will not suit the present time, and
after nearly twenty years of endeavor to make
the French people esteem the revived Napo
leonic system a blessing, it has resulted in a
practical failure. The present Emperor,
it is true, has done much for France;
but the conviction is deepening in men's
minds that there can be but one Napoleon,
and the son of Horteuso is beginning to be
the butt of the wits and satirists, whose hits
at his weaknesses are hugely enjoyed by the
people a fact that proves conclusively how
feeble his hold is upon their regards. When
a man becomes ridiculous he is no longer
either feared or admired. The first
empire was a government of force, but
then tho times required a strong arm
and a firm will. Tho second empire is also a
government of force; but tho times have
changed, and the men of the present day ask
why they should submit to be ruled like
children; why the foremost nation of the world
in science, art, manufactures, and all tho evi
dences of tho highest civilization, should bo
practically under the same system of govern
ment as the savago nomads of tho Asiatic
deserts? Tho Emperor has been slow
to read the signs of tho times, and such
concessions as ho has made have been forced
from him by an unmistakable popular de-
-I i i 1 1 i a mi
manu tnai no couiu not resist, ineso con
cessions seem to us like mere child's play,
and so they must seem to intelligent French
men. Tho celebration of tho great Napo
leon's one hundredth birthday by an amnesty
to political offenders has the appearance of a
bid for popularity among the ignorant peas
antry who still worship tho name of Napoleon,
but it will probably make but little impression
on tho men for whose benefit it appears to be
particularly designed. Such men as Victor
Hugo and Itochefort are not to bo propitiated
thus, for they do not acknowledge having
committed offense, and it is their eumity that
tho Emperor has most to fear. Tho indica
tions are clearly that another great upheaval
in France is imminent. Napoleonism, what
ever its other merits may be, has not appa
rently that of stability, and the world now
awaits anxiously to see what tho next change
will be.
The Fiutt Cask was brought to a summary
termination yesterday afternoon by the dis
charge of the prisoner from tho custody of
tho United States, on tho ground that there
was not sufficient evidence to warrant his de
tention. Although that model New York
jurist, McCunn, had nothing whatever to do
with his discharge, it is claimed by his friends
that the result of tho whole affair is a vindi
cation of McCunn's course, and practically a
victory for him. If this view of tho case
pleases the MeCunn party, it would be cruel
to contend that tho reverse is tho truth; but
it is altogether probable that, if tho United
mnfpa Commissioner had concluded to re
mand Tratt to tho custody of Marshal Barlow,
the McCunn party would have been conviuced
lliftt tho yictory was auite on. the other side.
"A DIO JOB."
"We have a big job boforo us!" exclaimed
Mr. C. II. Lucker, the President of tho so
called National Labor Convention now being
held in this city, in tho courso of his address
yesterday afternoon. This "big job" is
nothing less than the capture of Washington
in 1872, "not with bullets, but with ballots."
Mr. Lucker proposes to go about tho "big
job" in sj'stematio fashion. Mixed up with
a great deal of frolhy nonsense and tortured
rhetoric, wo discover hero and there a son
tenco that reveals tho horrible schemes
which Lucker has espoused. For one thing,
ho proposes to go into wholesale agrariauism
as a means of overthrowing our present "vil
lainous land system." Landlords have no
business to collect tolls on tho food, shelter,
and clothing of smart fellows like Lucker,
who could set the Delaware on tiro if they
should chooso to do so, and who do not set
the Delawaro on lire simply because they
have another "big job" on hand of far
greater importance. Then there is "the pre
sent iniquitous money system," which Lucker
proposes to upset while he is in the revolu
tionary business. He entertains as profound
a regard for the Constitution as did the late
Andy Johnson, and tho present financial sys
tem, in addition to being so glaringly
iniquitous, is not "consonant" with that won
derful document. Lucker proposes, more
over, to go into the legislative line, and "to
restrict by law the gains of all distributors,
both of men and goods," whereby he expects
to overthrow niiother grand iniquity and
establish "the principle that the trafficker is
the servant of the producer, aud not his mas
ter," or, in other words, that capital is the
slave of labor, aud that a rich man has no
rights which a poor man is bound to respect.
IJut Lucker discovers one great impedi
ment to the success of his projects, and that
is the coming man, John Cftnaman. This
John Chinaman Lucker regards as tho very
quintessence and consummation of baseness
so base, in fact, that "in California, where ho
is known, all parties, by common consent,
have, in their political platforms, condemned
him as totally unworthy of being made a citi
zen of the United States." Lucker, of course,
believes that a Chinaman is a brute; that his
very existence is an offense against the Al
mighty; that ho deserves to be knocked down
aud dragged out whenever he appears in tho
presence of a genuine man; and that only by
knocking him down aud dragging him out
can tho "big job" be consummated, and the
faces of all the toilers in tho laud saved from,
tho fresh grinding process which is otherwise
so imminent. From all of which it would ap
pear that Lucker is about as narrow-minded
a specimen of humauity as has lately em
braced an opportunity for holding himself up
to the ridicule of the world.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
PmLADELrHiANS may well rejoice over the
showers which are falling to-day, and
pray for their continuance. Never before was
rain so essentially necessary to tho health,
comfort, welfare, and prosperity of tho city.
The main source of supply, the Fairniount
works, is nearly exhausted, and nothing but
rain, rain, rain, and plenty of it, will prevent
a water famine productive of terrible incon
venience and fearful injury to manufacturing
interests. It is not difficult to discern the
root of the evil. It consists in the perilous
reliance upon water-power exclusively at the
Fairniount works. Entirely too much of tho
indispensable fluid that becomes precious in
times of drought is consumed in
the mechanical operations by which
the reservoirs are filled. The turbine wheels
use twelve gallons in forcing up one, and tho
breast-wheels forty gallons. It is folly to
pretend that the Schuylkill does not contain
plenty of water to supply Philadelphia pro
perly and fully, even in times of the greatest
scarcity. Nature has been bountiful, and we
must blame only our own deficient mechani
cal agencies. Within the last few days the
Schuylkill Navigation Company released from
its dams 8(H),0()o,()oo gallons of water. If all
this was utilized, as it nearly all might be by
the use of steam engines, it would furnish
supplies for a month, but under tho existing
system more than 700,0(10, Olio of the 800,000,
000 gallons was necessary to force into the
reservoirs a few days' supply. An expendi
ture of a few hundred thousand dollars, fol
lowed by an annual outlay of a few thousand
dollars to run the steam engines at times
when the river is unusually low, would obvi
ate the existing difficulty forever, and insure
ample supplies in every emergency. Tho rain
may help us out of the present trouble, but
we trust that Councils and the Water Depart
ment will at tho earliest possible moment
adopt measures to prevent the recurrence of
any similar dilemma.
EDUCATIONAL.
Nutlonnl Superintendent' Asuorintion It Or-
Siinruiion una ork-AllendliiK iHeuitiern-l'aiM-m
Theoretic and 1'nnerH JriirtlcalA
Nailonnl Itonrd of Kducation I uvorod.
From, Our Own Correspondent.
Tuenton. N. J., Aus. 10, 1809. Tho Ninth
National Educational Convention opened its
sessions tor lblJ to-day in this city. Three dis
tinct societies are combined in this organization
tne JNational Superintendents' Association,
tho American Normal School Association, and
the National Teachers' Association. Tho first of
these met to-day, the second follows to-morrow,
aud the other will assemble on the thrco suc
ceeding days.
Tho National Superintendents Association
was organized at Ilarrisburg In ltfiiO by the
assembling of a few earnest superintendents who
appreciated its necessity, and tho beueflU to be
derived therefrom. In February, 1S07, eleven
State and thirty County Superintendents dis
cussed the importance of a National Board of
Education, and appointed a committeo to recom
mend tbe subject to the consideration of Con
gress. The effort was successful. Tho Depart
ment of Education was organized, with a com
missioner and clerks. But, subsequently, it Is
claimed that tho department was fettered by
unwlso legisla tion and deprived of tho ability of
maintaining a; live organization. Tho subsequent
sessions weroj held in Indianapolis la August,
iyt57, and in Nashville In August. 1SGS.
The progriuuilQ for tho present SCSslOU as
signed a morning session for an arrangement of
busbies detuils, but nothing was transacted
beyond tho registering of tho names of tho visit
ors. The Normal (School, in which the day
meetings are held, is well stocked with samples
of school furniture! and books from various
publishers, and shrewd canvassers Improve tho
time by commending them to the school digni
taries in attendance.
Tbe prominent members who have thus far
arrived arc as follows:
President, .1. W. Bulkier, Superintendent, Brook
lyn, New York.
Secietary, L. Van Bokkclen, Maryland.
PRKSKNT MKMI1BKS.
Warren Johnson, State fcupt. of Public. Instruction,
Maine,
S. 8. Ashley, State Sup. of Tub. Instruction. N. (!.
W. M. Cu by, Supt. of lid., 1'rcediiii'H h Bureau,
Arkansas.
M. II. Wygant, Supt, of First .Judicial District,,
Arkansas.
Thomas Smith, State Supt. I'ub. Instruction, Ark.
B. (.'. Hobbs, State Sup. Pub. liiMtructiiui, Indiana.
W. I). Wenkle, StateSnpt. r ubile Instruction, Ohio.
J. I. Wickernham, State Nipt, of Public Instruc
tion, Pennsylvania.
Joseph White, Sec. Board of Education, Mass.
A. .1. Pliipps, Agent Board of Kducntloii, Mass.
B. . Northrop, Sec. Itonrd of Kdm atlon, Conn.
Daniel Bead, Sup. Public Insti nct ion, Missouri.
K. A. Apgar StateSnpt., New Jersey.
W. H. White, StateSnpt., West Virginia.
Albert Marble, Snpt,., Worcester. Mass.
W. K. ( reery, Snpt., llaltlinore, Md.
James Cruiksliaiik, Snpt., Ilrooklvn, N. V.
A. I. Klckoir, Supt., Cleveland, onto.
George I!. Sears, Supt., Newark, N. J.
C Shepherd, Supt.. Trenton, N. J.
(). K. Hood, Supt,, Lawrence, Mass.
K. A. Hubbard. Sunt.. SnrliiL'tleld. M:ism.
M. W. Tewksbury, Supt., Tall Itiver, Muss.
A, Armstrong, Supt,, Council Ulutls, Mo.
M. 11. Martin, Supt., Troy, N. V.
A. (iilinore, supt., Camden countv, N. J.
W. W. Cntidit, Supt., Franklin, N. J.
I). I.. Kiehle, Supt., Fillmore county, Minnesota.
S. I.ockwood, Supt.. Monmouth county, N. J.
M. Warren, Supt., Stockbrldge, Muss.
II. F. l'atterson, Supt., l'ottsville. I 'a.
1J. F. Harrington, Supt., New llcdford, Man
W. F. crosley, Supt,, Lima, Ohio.
F. F. White, of Ohio, ami a large number of mem
bers, former Superintendents of schools, State,
county, and city.
. Itichards, 'superintendent 01 Public, Schools,
Washington, I). C.
The Afternoon No-don
was opened with prayer by llev. Dr. Uichardson,
pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of
Trenton. J. W. Bulkley, New York, President,
and L. Van Bokkclen, Maryland, remained in
office from last session. By permission of the
association, several papers not upon the regular
programme were permitted to be presented,
read, and discussed by various superintendents.
A paper from llev. Charles Brooks, of Mod
ford, Mas6., was read by Professor Hart. The
writer, as a septuagenarian and as a faithful advo
cate of popular education, urged that Congress
should be memorialized to establish a national
system of education.
As Napoleon III was about to establish a sys
tem similar to that proposed, he trusted tbe
United States would awaken to the fact that in
this country one million of children cannot
read, write, or cipher, and would devise liberal
plans for the removal of such a blemish. His
labors to accomplish this had convinced him
that Congress did not possess the power to
establish a national system of education, and he
trusted a constitutional amendment would soon
remedy that deficiency.
memorial from Dr. Edwin Leigh, of St.
Louis, Mo., was read by tbe author, although
several interruptions occurred on the ground
that the article was not properly in order. He
regretted that a large number of the scholars in
the public schools did not remain long enough
to receive the common elements of instruction.
About one-half never reached the studies of the
grammar department, while over one-third only
cujoyed two years attendance, aud read uo
further than the primer and the first reader.
He commended the subject to the consideration
of the meeting, and trusted that something
would be done in the premises.
As neither of the papers presented any practi
cal features or recommendations, the' were
quietly referred to a special committee.
The President addressed the assembly, con
gratulating his co-laborers on the auspicious cir
cumstances of their session, and the general
interest apparent in the objects of the associa
tion. They had met again to contribute to the
common stock of knowledge, to compare notes,
to relate experiences, to learn of the educational
wants of the community, and to devise mea
sures for supplying them. He commended to
the attention of his associates the present
anomalous position of the National Educational
Bureau, that from its original independence had
sunk to a mere dependency of the Interior De
partment. It was Incumbent on them to declare
their confidence therein aud aid in its develop
ment or to withhold their sympathy and
support. "I speak as to wise men; judge ye !"
Dr. Daniel Read, President of State Univer
sity, Mo., was glad that this subject had been
brought to the association's attention, and he
trusted the body would not adjourn without
giving an expression of its desire to have a
National Superintendent of Education, vested
with fitting power for the performance of his
Invaluable duties. At present, Mr. Parton had
not official power to demand a single statistlca
report from a State or Superintendent; all
Information desirable could only bo sought Inl
the modest form of a request. A vast amount
of good had already been accomplished iu
spreading needed statistical matters before the
teachers of the country; and he desired that the
General Government should be prompted to bet
ter support that department.
Ou motion of Andrew J. Kickoff.of Cleveland,
Ohio, the address of the President was referred
to a special committee to be reported upon.
George F. Sears, of Newark, read an essay
upon "'Primary Education," containing sugges
tions well worthy of being acted upon. He be
lieved that the very best talent should be placed
at the source of a child's education, that the
fountain-head of instruction might be pure and
undented. But the salaries for such positions
were bo poor that superintendents could obtain
only Inexperienced apprentices or broken-down
hacks. The former could do more good aud less
mischief In the higher departments, and would
bo tho better fitted for little ones If they had had
several ycari previous experience In teaching.
He would advise that teachers of experience,
and of successful experience, too, should alone
bo cutmsted with the nurture of these tender
children. Thus would be secured teachers who
would tell a little child two or three times to
do a thing, if necessary teachers who would
believe that a child of six years may
he as forgetful and as peevish almost
us a teacher of eighteen. Ouly tho teacher that
bus studied tho vagaries and inconsistencies of
the human heart, whether tho subject bo weak
and little or full-grown, Is fitted to tako these
little ones and bend them very gently, so that
the pressure is scarcely felt, and hold them
there. Ho would recommend as the first essential
that tho teacher should resclve to make their
schools pleasant to themselves and to their
pupils; and, in conclusion, ho trusted the pri
mary school might receive hereafter tho atten
tion it deserved, In view of tho great linpwrtanco
of lliC fiiat year's moulding of a child's nature
Messrs. Rlckoff, Ohio; Johnson, Maine; and
Wlckersham, Pennsylvania, were appointed tho
Committee on the President's Address.
At 0 o'clock the association adjourned until
8 P. M.
The Evening Hcamlnn.
At tho opening of tho evening session, rou
tine committees were constituted as follows:
Nominating Committee Messrs. Richards, of
Washington; Crulkshank, of New York; Mar
ble, of Massachusetts ; Smith, of Arkansas, and
Hobbs, of Indiana. Publication Committee, on
the port of the National Superintendents' Asso
ciationProf. John S. Hart, New Jersey.
The hall of the Normal School held a good
audience, and the Intelligent sympathy of tho
listctiers was often testified by hearty ap
plause. By appointment, B. G Northrop. Secretary of
the State Board of Education, Connecticut,
rend a suggestive paper upon the subject,
''Should Public Schools be free, or supported lu
part by rate bills?''
The plan of supporting schools in part or
wholly by rate bills was adopted early in this
country, "it was first abandoned by Massachu
setts, and the schools made free in that pro
vince, in Iti'.fJ: by Pennsylvania in 1TS4; by Ohio
sixteen years since; by" Iowa eleven years ago.
West Virginia started with free schools, profit
ing by her sad experience endured in the "Old
Dominion." Missouri gsve up her. rate bills
when she became a free State. New York fol
lowed these examples In 187. Rhode Island and
Connecticut each did likewise a year and a half
since. In all the other Northern and Western
States the schools have alwavs been free: ami
now tbe only exception in this country of the
rate bills yet" remaining unrepealed Is the State
ol New Jersey.
One ilor.cn forcible arguments arc suggested
in luwrot free schools in preference to rate
in us. i nese are: I . Male which has ever
tried the Iree svstem has afterwards adopted the
rate bill. In all the States where the rate bill
has been repealed the results ol the change
have met general approval. ;i. The tree system
has greatlv increased the whole number of
pupils iu attendance. 4. It has lessened irrcgu-
rai ity and truancy, and thus greatlv increased
the average attendance. 5. It dignifies and
elevates the school in the esteem ol the pupils
ti. It insures tliu interest of parents. T. It
quickens tbe educational spirit of the whole
people, s. in even State where it lias been
tried, it has lengthened the school term. it. It
has led to the erection of better school-houses
10. it economizes expenditures of money: better
results are secured at the same cost. 11. "it tends
to break down invidious distinctions. 12. On
the other hand, the rate bill is everywhere
prolific source ot strife.
An interesting intermission was made by the
readings of Miss Potter, of New York. Tho
well-known poems of "Abou ben Adhem." and
''The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,
were ably delineated by the fair reader, and well
applauded.
11. F. Harrington. Superintendent of Public
Schools, New Bedford, Mass., most ablv dis
coursed upon the topic: 'The true ideal of
system of American Public Schools."
The speaker briefly reviewed the systems of
education tiiroughout Continental Europe, and
adverted to the I'.nglisli systems ot education,
which he characterized as dominated by the in
tense spirit of caste throughout all classes w hich
had moulded all the institutions of that land.
For centuries the upper classes there have, as a
whole, received a one-sided training worthy only
of contempt and scorn, iu view of the complete
ness ol culture adapted to the use and furnish
ing of the faculties in symmetrical proportion,
in accordance with the standard of absolute
manhood. Meauw bile the middle classes were
still more wretchedly educated, and the lower
classes have been left to take care of themselves.
1 low they have taken care of themselves, and
with wha't results, let the condition ol ten mil
lions of agricultural laborers, grovelling in the
lowest depths of poverty, ignorance, underline,
without one hope, for the future, reply.
Let any trunk inquirer who has lair means of
observation and judgment, ask himself, ''Do the
public schools of our own land justify our
hopes?'' They have at least disseminated
knowledge enough to operate with marked ef
fect in lostering and perpetuating our institu
tions. Knowledge is power, and universal
knowledge distributes universal power. They
have saved us from po-itlvc evils, but they truly
have not wrought out, the great benefits" which
might have been expected. Their defect has
been an inherent one, anil has arisen from the
fact that they were not constituted with direct
reference to the wants of American citizenship.
Tbe school sy.-tcm iu Massachusetts was a fair
sample of the character ami results of public
instruction in this country.
It is a startling fact that anybody who has a
little spare time and a willing disposition, no
matter how ignorant and morally unlit for the
position, is thought good enough to be clioseu at
nap-hazard to serve on a school committee, and
to cripple the earnest endeavors of cultured, con
scientious teachers. Again, anybody who is de
cently moral and tolerably educated will do for
a teacher. In fact, a large number of schools
are conducted, so far as the teachers are con
cerned, as mere mercenary institutions, in which
young girls who cannot otherwise get a liveli
hood are supported at the public expense.
Where there are several competitors, very often
the one who is in most need of the amount of
the salary is appointed, without regard to the
real test clliciency. Aud many a teacher who
has proved herself to be incompetent is retained
year after year, because to supplant her would
be take the food out of her mouth: although it
seems to be no matter how much she is starving
the souls of her scholars !
We need to devise and set forth on the eternal
rinciples of right a school system that shall
be
:jc in harmony with our free institutions, and so
instinctive with power and energy as to bloom
in perennial vitality into the best forms of
national life. Thus, aud thus alone, shall we
be able to boast ourselves possessed of the
standard by which all projects of reform shall
be tested. We need not to tiuker up the worn
out systems of the older nations, or to engage
in a patchwork task fruitless and unprov
able. It is tho crowning pride of our
American institutions that when our
children aro trained iu the spirit of the truest
wisdom, they are tho best trained to occupy the
position and fulfil the duties of the American
citizen. In other words, it is thus alone that
they may be cultured to become men. Thank
God! we dwell in a country whose political
axioms, institutious of government, and govern
ing powers aro of such a character and iu suck
harmony, that to discuss the qualities of true
citizenship is to discuss the qualities of true
manhood ! This truth was never realized in all
the world's history until the stars and stripes
took their place among the symbols of govern
ment as the symbols of true democracy.
Three leading points were further dwelt upon
at length by the speaker. First. For what
should tho children iu our public schools bo
educated? Secondly. How should they bo edu
cated? Thirdly. How far should their education
be extended? l'ho principle iinderruuuing these
considerations was that character, and not mere
scholarship, should bo the ultimate end of all
scholarship. Tho schools should bo free to all;
there should be a law making education com
pulsory: there should bo a modification of the
terms of admission to the High Schools, so as to
extend and not to limit the admissions; aud the
girls should bo educated as fully as the boys.
After these addresses tho meeting adjourned
till !) A. M. to-morrow. Laiud.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Hsy- FOR THE SUMMER. TO PREVENT
unburn and all diuoolorationa and irritations of the
kin, biti'pi of moaguitpn or othor insaota, uae VVriKbt'a
Aluunated Glycerine Talilut. It ia doliuiouuly fraKnint
lrauppurunt, aud hua no en mil an a toilut mmn. tor wtlu hv
dr.ut!KiHts Kitnerully. K. fc U. A. WKIUIIT. No tfciS
C11KSNUT huoot. 84
IA- J A M E 8 M. 8 0 O V K h.
W I.AWYKR,
OAMUKN, N. J.
Collection (BAda everywtajru in New Jersey. J U t9 1
SPECIAL. NOTIOES.
ffcj U. S. OFFICE OF ARTIFICIAL LIMB3.
An appropriation $&0,000) having boon nudebr
UonffroM for titm-naning
KI It IDIAL 1.IMHS FOR OKFIOKRS
of th Unitfld htatoa Army and Nary mutilated In tha
arrice, application mar now be mado, in perron or l
.'iwt, ,ij uinvnrn eniipien in innnnnput ol tat aot. and
Who dniirn tho boM Artificial Ijmba, to
mjt. ti. r K A N H I'AI.MI'.K. fturgonn Artint,
No. lo (!HK8NIJT Street, Philadelphia.
No. (S7H ItHOADWAY, Now York,
.... No. Hi (IKK.KN KlrMtt, Hoaton.
5 12 Oltices for Supplying Army and Nary Offloara.
KaT ELLIS' IRON BITTERS. "HAVING
. ,,. """d Tonr Iron Hittera in my praotios, I oan toatify
toitsauperior tonio propertioa for invigorating tha app.
promoting digoation. I can unhmitatingly ra
fp?7.ri?i1i J" .cf."w of nd n-Bbllitj- and dyspepsia, and
L7n, w .n"V.,, "),'m rnring the uaeof a. forrn.
tT OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF
T11K DKLINljUKNT M!I,ITIA TAX.
TP.. I .! . '"".AOKM'HIA, August 14, !.
.. rrreive the .ilxivo tux at liisotli. e, N. W. corner Seventti
and Arch atrocts, second atory. Ottire hours from 9 till 3.
,,, IIARWOOI). .Ik.,
Un . - ... , Collector.
teT YANKEE ORE EN CORN CUTTERS,
for bible and kitchen use, give you tha heaKhy
pulp witli.piit tho indigestible hull. Various styles and
prices, from 2i cents up, lor sale at all the houso furnisli
mg stores. g ,
JUST VERY SUPERIOR OOLONG TEAS
(Hlack) In 6. 10, aud 15 pound Uaadgome Caddies, at
wholesale prices,
1 m,...?o Jlmi0,UVK 0Oii No N NINTH and
laistulhhm No. ,:W M AKKKT Street.
lr DR. F. R. THOMAS. THE LATR OPW.
n,,!,, n,, ? i1,on 'on,al Association, is now tha I
:''? ''nI h.,1"d.,,1l'hiawhodemtea his entire time and i
r"',,''p,,0y,''" teeth, absolutely without painTt.y i
lrcmh nitrmiH rtinln irua iiMiuntatii'n ... v . r w
rs,.w. v ivo, avii tv n gjm j ( nu 1 Joy
Sr JOSE P O E Y 7
Wedico Oirujano do la Kacultad do la Hahana, ha
t rasladndo gu domi. ilio a Walle do Oroon, No 17
donde rociue cousultaa do 7 a i ffe. la nmnanu y de a a 6 da
turuo,
PR. JOSKPH POKY,
Graduate of tha I niversity of Uabana (Ouba). baa re
moved to No. 1M7 Green street.
Office Hours 7 to 9 A. M., 3 to 6 P. M. 7 2ttf
CLOT HINC
Though Times be Dull,
And Trade be Slack,
You must have Clothes
Upon your Back!
ONLY TUINK OF IT!!
R0CKHILL & WILSON
HAVE MARKED DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, TUB
PRICE OF EVERY GARMENT IN TUB
GREAT BUOWrjIXALL!!!!
Tlilnk of it ! Think of It ! ! Think of it!!! There
is positively no manner of excuse for going shabby
now, for you can get Clothes for ALMOST NO
THING at the OKEAT BROWN HALL.
All ye! Allye!! All ye!!! Who aro going out of
town!!! Stop! stop! Stop before you go, and take
with you SOME OF THE CHEAPEST CLOTHES
YOU EVER SAW IN YOUR LIFE!!!' THE
CLOTHES OF THE GREAT BROWN II ALL.
EVERY INDIVIDUAL MAN of the great public
has an Individual lutereBt in calling at
THE GREAT BROWN HALL,
And inspecting the FIXE RAIMENT now oifcrel
AT SHOCKING REDUCTION IN PRICE.
Needn't buy unless you want to,
Hut you will want to
When you see the mighty array of
SPLENDID CLOTHES,
AT THE
GREAT BROWN" ZIAL1
OF
R0CKHILL & WILSON",
NOS. 603 AND 605 OHESNUT STREET '
PniLApELPrriA
DARING ATTEMPT TO ROB
HERRING'S PATENT
FKANKLINITE UANKEll'S CHEST.
rERHVVII.I.K STATION, PKNNSVI.VANIA RR
Jlltie 18, 1869. ''f
Me.-mis Fakrki., Hkkkino 4 Co.,
No. a ChcBuut street. Philadfiint.i.
Gents: A nerniNtent inr
made on th nil.t of May w, isn, to drill th
Banker h cheat revived from you a row months ago?'
From facts that have come to our knowledge, it hr
evident that the attempt to op.-n it was renewed otf
bunday evening following. Finding n etrorts to'
dtid it umImh, the ettort was then made to break the?
lock. Tho hammering was heard by partleg fn 1 th
neighborhood for several hours, but supposing it ttf
nr sefrom the railroad men replacing a ile'eotlS
rail, excited no alarm. The tools, with the excent ion
of thedrllls, were left. It Is evident that tlie, we "
not only prepare), but perfectly familiar with tut
construction of your Chest. ,ulur with the
That they fallen lg another evldencn n,r J
Banker, Chests are what you elSS 1,
Respectfully yours, I
15D J. BALSBACK. Agent J
D n E X E L & co.1
NO. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET.""i
Am oi- i,,i 11 lui i0l.0,'ffJ
F.urope. j"iiumuou lu any part ot
uid Uivldeuds witt.out charg"! 'Ltl tllUir Interest
DltEXEI., WlNTIIHOP A CO., DltBXKL, II AKJEs 4 C0.j
i. 3 10 a
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r ikA AMI l'UILADKI.J
miA KA1.T nvn i
PiWi. ' l-AHY will .!,'
VST T"Sfri"" ,b tl.aca.uced
Ill v.. "Kmeaoie uavor must recommend it to
laan??2,7,lll,Ty,, ''!. U,U8' 8- "AUNT, M. I)., Pro
KWi the ""ielpuia Univeraity of lUodicini and
" I'Jdlttlthf tmS
No a-ittKcft K?,,,L,?ST2,l "OT.T.OWAY ik 0(?Wifi.
no. Wla AKCJH Stroot. and hy Ifruggjata lennraJhr
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