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Show MUSIC AND ELOQUENCE, In the Fourteenth Ward a Large Audience (lathered to Hear Truth Spoken. The Liberal band blew lots of music into the air at the Fourteenth ward and a largo audience gathered to hear. P. A. Dix was the head of the meeting, aud tho tirst speaker was J. A. Gillespie, who pronounced tho subject of educating educat-ing children as one deserving of the greatest attention, striking as it does at the door of the future. Every man feels that his child should have a thorough thor-ough education to lit it for tho battle of life. Tho man who earns $1 a day, perhaps in the experience gathered by his own ability to earn more, feels this even more keenly than the millionaire. How unjust, then, to discriminate directly against him aud conspire to make his posterity one of poverty. The schools he pronounced incompetent and the houses coops, poorly ventilated and killing the body to feed the mind but a little. C, W. Bennett plnmply presented tho issue by asking if the audieuee desired free or restricted schools. Ho asked that those most interested, the parents, assist to institute a school system in keeping not only with tho city but with the just claims of fathers and mothers whose children are not granted their due. C. C. Goodwin said the strugglo had been a great one to get the schools from beneath the dominating influence of tho church. This country has tho grainiest system of schools of any other under tho sun, but iu certain sections of every household some member is found to neglect his duty, The. Mormon member of tho national household has done this in tho past with reference to freo schools. Tho party which has been friendly to a principle is the one to prove tho best exponent of that principle in practice. The way to start tho yonng in life is to give a thorough education, discriminating discrimi-nating against none for tho pocket's sake. Ho commended the ticket as presented by the Liberal party as one deserving of success. Frank Slovens in following declared education to bo the barometer which marks the rise of civilization. V. 15. Dollivar, of Iowa, talked logically logi-cally upon tho question and drew a parallel between it and conditions which had been frowned down in the east. His discourse was marked by continued outbursts of applause. m |