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SENTINEL REPUBLICANMiyFLhNTOWN, WKDSESDAI, HAT ST, 1SB1.B. F. SCHWEIERS3UTO* A*» raOFftlCTOK.Compulgoiy Education'Tots Compuleory Education bill passed the Senate last week. The m«n who voted for it, bate tiiwr action up. on lie belief that intellectual and text book education is a remedy for all of tbe moral ilia that afflict tha peopl but that belief ia a mistake, Tex-book education never made one man or woman better. If some religious zealot would offer a bill in the Logts-1 at era to compel all children to attend religious service for religious m* Blruetions, it would immediately be pronounced a despotic religious movement. Compulsory education ia a Jospotie intellectual movement The state that aanda ita officers into the family to take out the children and force them to church schools or intellectual schools invades tha moat sacred rights that men have namely, the rights of their homes from in. truaion, and the rights of their per. t'.g», and the rights of their families frvm molaetatiun ami arrest. Thera should be no exception to tha free, doiu of individuals and their famil iue, except when they am charged with crimes that warrant am at. Tha public schools are a public good and are open alike to all, but beo-uuee a Tom and Die!; and Harry, does not tend bia children to the schools is no juat reason why the rights of all ctti. zana are to be endangered, and one of the most despotic ^principles introduced ly the stale for the govern ■ ment of the people. Tha com pul-j sory act is the invasion of every prin cipal of govern maul on which Amer. can government ;■ founded, The American principal of government ie that the individual is everything, and that government is nothing, except to protect the citizass in tha exercise of hie individual rights in all things except in the commission of crimes. Tha advocates nf compulsory educa tion, desire to hsvu it appear that unlettered people commit the crimes of the day, therefore to lassven crime the state should come in and force children to attend schools no that they do not become criminals Such argument will answer if it ia true that the people who have mo in tel lev tael eduesiion era the criminals of the country, but it is not true that the uneducated arc the criminals sf tha land. It is true that a certain percentage of them are uneducated, but the statistics of the prison life show that the larger number of poo-pie in the penitentiaries are people, who received intellectual education, and it is a fact that forces itself on the observation of thinking/’ men, that the crimes of defalcation and embezzlements in business places, basks, stores, corporations, Ac,, are committed by men who |revolved in. tellectuat education. A man with good intent though he be uneducated in the school text books is a bet tar citizen than the tnsn of bad tent, who has passed ail tha grades of intellectual training from the com men schools up through a collegiate course. It is a great good for the individual to have received intellectual training in the schools and all parents and guardians should tee to it that the children attend the pub lie schools, which are free to all, but that is one thing and compulsory education is quite another. It hoped that Governor Paftiaon will veto any compulsory education bill the Legislature may pass. He is thorough American,Anon- eighty delegates attended the Afr American Convection atHfcwrttVmr* - t icf »a.l
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Mifflintown Juniata Sentinel And Republican
Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, May 27, 1891
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