Show PUBLIC SCHOOLS criticizing criticising Critic ising the method of the of Letri ting I 1 I 1 esth Thel laster workman of the knights of labor in this city in a recent ad dreta to tile order uttered bome fome that appeal lilt to overa thinking man fit the comman icv lie alluded to ill fabion SO prevalent pe valent ili dashington Vas hington of giving but half a days im eruption to tile children in the four grades of tile primary schools and how un justan flow arong was taij fashion lie had not go half far enough iut if it at lie said I 1 I 1 I 1 have tit a effat of arousing arous inc the parents of tile 4 I 1 ile ill alid unjustly treated to a 0 ind indignant gnant and on ution he it have act a more aril an during than if ito ware to succeed fit effecting all the soi of tile order he presides dds over ahat those have ho long remained under tile ita altic j done ti air omeaka jumes for iber pause of order and but also qin ifie thaltha ij ter uy W carried in ilia to u ia I 1 MILItA III to the pow er that I 1 it IA act that the tabt maj arity 01 tile dupill a 1 tile tai ls d ilot go aar her thail 11 s irth grda tha adman ld ot ido the pieree of the i fur tile prova lem a of tile pernicious and un I 1 idea that tile only good lies in 9 tile material gain all heso c the MA I 1 arity oft hildren froni the t tile ija of gr ad 0 t 0 t 1 I ke tha r 0 antha orId as wage wor wort t er A peti lors fot iva tia ajr large alloro 4 ate broaded ed milli milk to eirts a do 1 ir or tivo 4 week our blaces and till our ork are illk immature Im maturo apeci biens of huni Anity forced out from and home to fight the world chool lie iran of the trades unions out to ilia majority the chance of learning a trade thua estabi ashing un eggle of labor a iva the in other directs ons iravea no for the children but to ruai out into tile throng and strive mith sickening zeal for the chance to earn a livelihood that as a rule the child who has enjoyed a full course in tile luLI ic to the end of sixth grade 19 uneducated goad d very imperfect li how to breadstill read still more ily how to write and perhaps h of tile four first dulai of arith M to coonc sums of mo n a and give ell ange if he Is bog ismat clied care fi illy by his employers but that ia the it t most bich tile sixth full course m ili give him now it I 1 I 1 a I 1 given in tile first lur ayearst of tills c urge and it t n be remembered that few children are allowed to advance faatea than a grade a year oil ly balf davs he re tirel from bohrat ona of hia fourth yeara course ith such a slight torin 7 of book learning as to be practically odilo to him except to read the romp pT pars unintelligently li and with difficulty is to prevail it will ba both wiam aud sensible t break up tho publio for they cost in such a bafo a great deal more titan result are worth the last report but one of the pub lic schools af this city and the oni y one before up tile pere io f pupils in the first four g ra des to tho whole number enrolled as 63 in round nu I 1 inbok tho in tie 1 first grades was a little 0 yo 8 7 that is arway alit of every one hundred pupils enrolled lem titan thirty it continue in after tile sixth grille and only thirty biven after tile fourth lz r a with only a half da ze jal in tile first four gra es via ila 0 tile and deplorable fact that ga per cent of the hupila drop out at lite eni of tho sixth beart baa fag no further than tile fourth ri do r claro forced ant 0 tilio of lifo to for a and the pra insap of 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 4 t I 1 1 I 1 M those thus defrauded 1 of an education edu catlon I 1 a at the day bably greater thin at t 0 tc ro port it this matter N not rec tilled it tit control the ann A akao a little time fran ex to I 1 atilt graveyard demolishing in order to protect the pupils then me say abolish the public school system 4 once |