Judge — September 12, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. JUDCES=——~— a E_CHANGE TO THE GRAND SORY ~ i} No question could be urged upon the at- tention of your Jury by this court that has more imperative demands upon you than the one just now freshly pertiner dition of public education. cause all the defe of schools the lack of attention of your Jury of Public | Opinion to the workings of the system. The education of the people will be as direct, and any slacking of your , ly be followed by ‘slovenly ching, loss of interest on the part of the , neglect or jobbery on the part of js and complete defeat of the objects schooling. It is thus that education te. -y will find every department of ystem badly in need of your energies. Otlicials, from the heads of State departments down to boards of e ion in cities, and trustees or directors in country disdricts; instructors, from superintendants to pri- maries; school buildings and sanitary sur- roundings—all these need your eternal vigilance, If any phaze of the business needs your attention most, it is that inversion of the proper order of public instruction by which the few get the cream of the system and the many minds starve on its skimmed milk. It will be in evidence before you that 95 in 100 of the pupils leave school before the age of 14; that of the remaining five, four drop out before the completion of the high school course. You will also be shown that more 'y is spent on the education of this one favored graduate than on the whole of the other 99 children. You will thus learn that the people’s education is cheapened and di- luted to enable a few to get acomplete edu- cation, Still further, it will be shown to your Jury, that notwithstanding the fact is well- known to teachers and officials that 95 in 100 of their pupils can never enter the high school at all, the whole time that they can spend in school is devoted to preparing them for the high school, to the neglect of a usefal, practical education. ‘Thus you will find that a true education is denied the 95 in order to have a symmetrical, extensive, com- plete system for one pupil, or at most, five pupils. ‘Thus, the children of the masses are not only starvingly educated, but are mal-edu- cated for the benefit of a few high-school attendants, Thesystem is an inverted cone. It is clearly because of the neglect of your Jury, that this monstrous injustice ‘con- | tinues. It is one that threatens the life of our institutions because it is only universal education that can make universal suffer- age safe, and universal education we do not now have, It is because it is undemocratic; because it has established an educational aristocracy; because a few enjoy a monopoly of the benefits of a tax-supported system, that the continuance of it threatens its own overthrow aud the lapse of popular educa- tion. ‘That the schools do now fail of accom- plishing their objects, there will be sufficient evidence before you in the fact that popular interest in the vital subject of education has declined to zero; as well as in the direct re- sults of schooling shown by statistics of illit- | eracy, average attendance at schools, the low standard of scholarship as shown in any test examination of picked pupils at Weet Point or by the Civil Service Commission, etc., ete., and by the increasing defects of | government and business, confessedly due | to lack of popular intelligence. Your Grand Jury will find as you pursue your inquest, on every hand’ cause for alarm at the condition of schools. You are the only tribunal that can work reform. | Statutes are of no avail, The fault is in the administration and in your Jury’s neg- | lect. cE. B RULINGS. It Has LEAKED ovT that President Clev land fled to the North Woods because he heard that Keily was coming home. : STOCK-IN-TRADE of the Ohio prohi- | bitionists this year scoms to be stock ale. That's what ails their candidate for Gover- nor. | «« BusINEss MAN ”—No, President Cleve- Picaxinnte off de million? Disauisep Dappy myself in hyah, ter g Daddy, did ye What fo' ye spose I ‘aguise cotched ¥” land is not wealthy. It is not known as yet that he will have even a competency for his four years’ work. A MAN IN NepRASKA has invented a microscope with which a human soul be- comes visible. Ie needn’t apply for a pat- ent unless he has tested it on the souls of some of New York’s millionaires. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM was just a whoop- ing it up that day when four tested em- ployees in the Surveyor’s Office, N. Y. Cus- tom House, were discharged to make room for those rising young statesmen, Patrick McKenna, Michael McGuire, Patrick O'Meara and Dennis Hoolihan. Their in- offensive partisanship were vouched for by Mr. Hubert O. Thompson, who is in the re- form business heavily himself. ONLY COUN Ty DEMOCRACY MEN NEED APPLY 08 For worK oF Lg rea, Ge comicbooks.com