Show A riet liet FEW IONS lons ON educational ECONOMY one of the best practical advisers education ghatt exer ever e ser listened list ened eneo to or read nead after was the late president young he housed used to say eay ere Ure create itoi itol employment for the people and spay pay them fol foi for it and let iet them pay pax forthe for the education edu tation of their oin own children 1 and I 1 think thinly of men who p profess to le E s to lo have hive the welfare of tile people at aart heart that it would become them to devise piana plana for the thie encourage anent of industry say bay light kight employ ment su buchas chag as women girls and chiu chiW children rien rieu of both sexes bexes could be engaged in buch euch as knitting g the culture of SA bile the mak making pg of our clothing etc etc so tant widows and orphan children cau ld have haj something to live and TO poor poon Q r apo people haye mea wea mean n jo 0 o hay bay pay for the education of their children so that they need baye have to go fo to the he 1 bishops aa as they now noy have bave to do and bekof beg of tile tiie them M to raise rats e menn Mean menns means fo pay for itt the tt 11 tion of their child children re n I 1 am no advocate of free schools unpopular though the admission may tv lle J I 1 am too much the friend of th the a poor foor consumer mer the unthinking malpay may say pay oh free schools would be sustained by taxation and the greatest part would ame come from froia the rich nich it might be so indirectly but let us bee fee the capitalist lends leads his money to the poor ma man n k wiio who fa is struggling to accomplish lish something he ie mortgages his property to said money tender lender aup but the poor borrower pays the taxes the taxes of the merchant are increased and he increases the krofl profits ts on his goods gods the taxes of the farmer are in crewed and he has to charge more for frn his produce the taxes of the manufacturer are increased an and d he charges more for his wares Thel TheA axes on the railroad are company increases th the ei price rice nice of freight and of fared farea and thus the great public I 1 th the consumer pays the taxes and who are the largest number of colsum ers era the mechanic the artiman art axt izan izau the farmer each of these poor men pays as much as the tho rich in proportion to the amoun amount t he and biff bis family consume and when men advocat advocate ii and andt seck sick to enforce oree free schoola 11 is evident fo to me that they thy have not given the subject due consideration Elde ration or they haie an axe to grind I 1 prefer to bend seid my mj th children ildren to schools iree from po pol poi dieal lideal control where aher the teachers would be of my aw own n 78 alth faith where principles that I 1 believe to be bb truc true yea religious principles and prayers are inculcated and I 1 would not have people taxed who are not of my faith to build schoolhouses school houses honses ar or pay ay tuition fees for the education of my abil children and this I 1 h have five tive always advocated mut aut when our laws liwa have hate said you khall ahall collect co elect taxes taxed I 1 why NY U Y I 1 b have bave avye avie aided i in a i bie ede eie eeling lilg that filey were not nob exorbitant and have aided in paying them out out oui far the tho purposes fo por for r which the they W were collected laut taut I 1 bave have found pound out that those who advocate free schools will not pay if they can ean help hilp I 1 it L THOMAS |