| Show UI Governor Wells Well to Cull on School SchoolChildren Children for Governor Y Is ii In receipt of a i let letter letter ter from lion Hon William II Day of Cleveland president ot of the tho McKinley Memorial association asking him him to sot eol aside January Mth the birthday at of atthe time the martyred President as n ft day for time the of funds for tor torn fora n a to be erected at Canton Ohio nt lit a cost of 0 Mr Mi Day suggests that tue w school children In every state be Invited to give their mItes for the fund fundIn fundIn In relation to ito tho matter the Clover Gover Governor nor says rays asking donations from the lie school children 1 I Mill consult with use the state elate of public Instruction thou tion As a general thing I of collecting money for any purpose front from the Ito pupils In attendance nt at time the public schools It establIshes n a bail bad precedent It Is likely to become so common as to constitute nn expense which parents win cn iii afford It opens the tho way vay for the extravagant and amId wasteful expenditure of funds no so eel col collected apil It draws n is painful distinction tion between this the children who can give much anti anil those who have little or nothing to 0 give Hut this Is n a matter of patriotism President McKinley died dieda a martyr as li time lie head ot of the peoples government He lie was vas one of the iii greatest of American Presidents standing side by side Washington anti nid Lincoln I feel that If ems n exception should over bo be made to the rule donations In the public schoolS It should bo be done In this ease case No Stent evil ovll can result from the practice tice tico If It Is confined to o the tite building of monument for our greatest Prest I believe that a portion of the fund for the Washington monument w yaS raised In this thu way A similar sub cub might be raised for a Lin Limi coin nod amid memorial but there thero It should stop However I Cannot iannot say what will be done In this matter until I It over with the |
