Show TILE EDUCATION BILL The Blair education bill which e has passed the Senate and is to come up in the House at an tarly date is full of evil pOr ibiJifces and probabilities proba-bilities Briefl the schemo is as I follows It provid s that 877000000 i of the public moneys shall be distributed i distri-buted among the several States and Territories in such a way as to L equalize the school privileges to all I children in the country without I t regard to color or race The expenditure expend-iture is to extend over aperjod of eight yearsasfollows Jirstyear f i I 7000000 second 10009000 third 815000000 fourth 813000000 i fifth 11000 000 sixth 59000000 seventh 87OJOOoO eighth 5000 l I 000 The money is to be turned I over to the respective governors in t monthly installments batd on the ratio of illiteracy the conditions being as follows 1 That none of it shall go to any State or Territory that ClefS not have a common school system for all children without regard to race or color 2 That no State shall receive from this fund more money than it annually i expends for school purposes j 3 That nona of the aoproprialion nail be expended for the erection or rental of school houses but that accommodations accom-modations for the school Ehail be furnished fur-nished by the States 4 That onetenth cf the fund shall I b < > applied to the education of teachers and i in maintaining normal and training I school 5 That each year there shall be made 0 to the Secretary of the Interior by the i Governor of each btele a detailed ptate ment of the disbursement of tbe fchool I fund with the number of school average daily attendance the relative number of white and colored children and other information as to the us3 of the fund I and the condition of common school education ed-ucation in the State and if it shall be t i shown that the fund has been misapplied misap-plied such Stat shall not lie entitled to further aid until it shall replace the money misapplied i This is all very philanthropic and benevolent en the surface and is intended in-tended captivate the unwary but i the asrect of things changes when we come to dig below thocroppfags The Treasury is overflowing with money wrur2 from an unwilling people in toe shape of war taxes and excessive duties There is an annual i an-nual surplus amcunting to over I 100000000 and this vat sum our Congressmen can find no legitimate way for spendng hence this raid on the Treasury which is put forth as a Republican measure for the benefit of the dear poor people Honest i Hon-est statesmanship would say that the better way to help the people 4 I 1 would be to lighten the burden of 1 I taxation until the revenue of the I J government was barely sufficient 4d f suffici-ent to meet the legitimate legiti-mate requirements If Congress 1 t i is to spend money in these ways there can never be reduction oft I of-t taxes and the high tariff policy I must necessarily be pursued t Schemes of a similar nature could be devised endlessly This one has f the extra faultbut one characteristic 1 character-istic of Republican legislationof i I striking a dangerous blow at the t independence and selfrespect of the 4 State It is directly in line of the f party plan of government central I izationj and besides hits the commonwealths 1 4 com-monwealths in a vital spot that of the education of the people If the > general government can vote money for education it certainly has the right to dictate how it shall be expended I ex-pended can say what books shall be used who shall be the teachers t and what must be taught it can i found and endow universities and colleges designate the f I professors and keep the instruction i I instruc-tion within a certain line of 1 j political thought or party policy f I indeed if it can make this appropriation t t appro-priation it can make of the educational educa-tional system of the State political 4 football to be kicked about by politicians f pol-iticians and partisans the same as the civil service has been managed 3 To say that Congress would not attempt at-tempt these things is to display ignorance ig-norance of the history of the Republican J < f publican party which has from the I first been grasping fhe rights of the I j states atid the people and gathering gather-ing power into the hands of a centralized I t II t I tralized government I II I It is believed the House will seethe see-the hidden dangers in this bill and PtQWPtl consign ifc to the waster waste-r b V a L 11 basket whero It belongs The Srates and Territories with the assistance as-sistance that has been extended to them in the land subsidies to th cause of educationVre able to educate edu-cate their children They do lot i ask government for help and esi e I cially not when the giving of tlat help involves an assumption of I unwarranted authority and pver I by the central government aid a corresponding loss of rights by the I States nor when the money is I forced from the people in the shape of exorbitant taxes I |