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Show Hvory child has a right to such nncti ucation as will qualify for life's dune?. This Is recognized as a patriotic duty of tho state. The permanence of our political polit-ical institutions depends on tho intelligence intelli-gence of our cit.zem-hip. "Tho bnye nets of foreign soldiers are less to bo feared than aro the ballots of ignorant voters." Tho wellfare of the state de-penda de-penda more on the moral nnd religious training of her citizens than on their intellectual in-tellectual training, yet the state inukes no provision for this moral dlslpline. In some cases it makes it dificult or even Impotsiblo toaecuro the moral und rcl'glou training of the mind nt all. There must bo a training of the moral mor-al sensibilities, purticularly tho w.ll. Not all this is the duty of the church, but the largest purt is the function of home. Every child deprived, by whatever what-ever means, of this education und training train-ing is defrauded of an inallonnble right, nnd when ho comes into tho in-heritunco in-heritunco of his citizenship mny lie depended de-pended upon to avenge himself on the society thnt perpetrated the fraud upon him. In deference to the views of In-tulels, In-tulels, atheists mid others, the llitne is cast out of tho public ft h wis, und nil school bioks nre stripped lme of every thl ig that might tend to build up una Btiengthcuthuchdd's moral character. It is cruelty to withold from children this higher and greiiUr training. Children Child-ren have rights which the state is bound to respect. It disregards them utits ,. own peril , |