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Show Social Scieuee. 1 Saratoga, C In tho Kocial Science association Dr. Eliaha Harris of Ntw, York read a report on the rpgifctratinn of vital statistics in tlie United Sules, with a plan for a basis of uniformity, both national and international. He! laid particular olrens upon the grpftt i importance of a lull and complete 1 record of marriageB, births and deaths and submitted a resolution t that end, which was adopted. J. Randolph Tucker, member of congress from Virginia, read a paper on the relations of the United State to each other, as modified by the war and tlie constitutional amendments, amend-ments, showing the strong state rights doctrines held by southern slates and sustained by courts before tne wr. He closed by announcing that the south accepts all the amendments adopted as binding, protestiug against the mode of adoption aa precedents. They increase the power of the general gen-eral government and nut limitation on state power, but do not organically change the relations of status to the Union. A paper was read by R L. Dugdale of New York on the herudiiary tranB-miodion tranB-miodion of vice and crime us iIIub trated in the Juke family. A papur by E. E. Hale and Prof. Wayland concluded by recommending the law on the subject introduced in the Now York assembly last winter by Hamilton Ham-ilton Fish as the best he had seen. The papor was endorsed by several speakers. It waa resolved, when the mooting adjourned, to do so, subject to an agreement of the secretary of the commission of charities, and sec rctary of Social Science, aa to the pUce of the next meeting, the charitios favoring Chicago for the next annual session. The evening session was mostly de voted to tbeaoutbero question. Dex ter A. Hawkina said at the oioae oi the war both whites and blacks were equally unfit to legislate, as equals. The lormer slaves were given power of which ibey knew nothing, being in thiB respect about equal with the whites. Political power was put in hands unuaed to it; elections became either farces or tragediea, the latter being quite as frequent aa the former. On the whole the south with ita ignoraut freedom haa done better than might have been expected Igooraut voterB have ruined France and Spain. Ig norant sufliage U always bad. There must be a power outside of the ignorant. A Iree government can iOt prosper in ignorance. The south should institute compulsory educa . lion at once, and strictly enforce it to secure immigration. One remedy ia to take the euflrage from the ignorant 1 white and black; the other to eetab-' eetab-' liah free achoola and fix tne time, aay ten years, after which no ignorant i man will be allowed autlrage. It if the law of civilization mat tne government gov-ernment must provide for educating ita people, and thereby it provides for the security of the country. Peun sylvania has Battered more the present year from G7,000 ignorant laborers than the coat of education in ten years. When univeraal education prevails peace and pmaparity will pervade the whole country. |