Show i A 11 B BASIS ASIS there is one feature or of the blair educational c 11 I 1 bill which lich should be b am ended io in ibo be HOUN insomuch as t tho he committee oa education in m that body show bagull of interest in it and it cioce it will probably pass the BOOM alco 1090 it would be str isago indeed and if a bill making such uca largo to the con antaL Cla 0 ot I 1 the great majority of 0 the members should foal of lasego and since inco it is i probably to become law and a 9 permanent appropriation nt at alti ulti all bartlem against a just apportion MOOL or of the money should be swept away la in ito form borm the bin bill foon dels ills no DO stale having se an illiteracy of less than eight per cent or its ita tow population shall hall receive any of 0 the money rod and the iho greater of illiteracy they report tho the note money they will get we submit that this IS I 1 I 1 powerful incentive to malo relive falba return mid had to the ply lur etab malago 90 of illiteracy kaoud the iho degree warranted by the iho facts it II h b so bun been a source auice or of jutt just pride among i iho states to have go little illiteracy as pout blo bio to redeem their people from ignorance boil have them as generally ceDe rally educated as possible after this thia bill it will bo be their direct and aad positive interest to reverse all this ihla at last la in willing so 10 as aa to gl their share of the public money muy many of the stiles ropon it a feln of illiteracy away below un the eight per cent standard tan darl tiled fixed in the bill and aad they would got get nothing under its ita pro violins A among aug these states stales that would 1 be caloo counted led out on the iho basis of percentage or of population who cannot lead are am california colorado coonce lacut illinois note indian iowa knead maine misouri Miu ouri now york pennsyl 1 hanla I and ad I 1 la tact fact nil 1111 the northern Norl nero and Wi lisiten states and newly nearly sit all the including utah whose of In illiteracy sterge 0 00 thin thia basist and also aleo on OB the basis of non ability to write is ia below the eight pet pat cot to ro qui rement or the bill belil it mine mean to us uj that to exclude the thaw states simply because the people have baro boon baca willing to tax themselves for educational purport aa the put I 1 unjust and virtually a premium to lo these lv st Z jerst love self ef liparit li darit then sen ija 0 alato elections would bo be liable to urn on the iho ability or non ability or of bo 11 to make tibb such IOD SO would secure tho the most moa money to 0 the state from oil read regardless of the factor rail and leftt hu hall heretofore bm tr aken ajust pride would be regarded I 1 a uil find a misfortune the POOP I 1 people ia or of the state who have home that I 1 burden fur in ID the put ro quite likely bikol to be altogether ether no willing 10 lo klap on baring the their it own burdens in ill the iho old wy way tad and lu ia aldi tion llon I 1 to a still BUU heavier lur du dm for other olber people for or it to Is tho the poo part pic after ant who IT lo 10 ulu lab iho ho public revenue am once be orly alil local or aho only jut method as to apportion the whom on OB uio the balos of I 1 th taco the states that are arc furthest ad vinced in education would have ham metal sum to lo provide even better belter and man extensive de bools and those who have here botak would bo be mt t on their educational feel fact so 10 to lo speak at one stroke broke thu tho former would liftee re lure for their weary to la the education of their people uio the latter would bo be kllc able to begin a good work I 1 wo no long the fly alto of the I 1 NO distinguish td cd from the illiterate state must muil bo be able to lo see too injustice ol of the lion as il at stan laadt dip anil and we have no DO doubt doub they will properly amend it il for ih they all have plenty of votes vota to lo do so 0 and 1 iho I measure la in in no BO sense partisan the practical la in the ibe lo iwo 10 ways way of abo money way nin bo be ton front we ago of NOW york for ill allu imjoo which under andar the th bill no it II would ret get none of the money but under ko in according to lo population 14 own would get more thia than 1 lormis culloo dollars in all it IN oot likely hot hoi would woold be long in deciding how to roto to 00 oo this thil proposition and wo we have DO doubt they will see KO to it that this amendment is proposed rod nd carried |