Show THE SPREAD OF AN IDEA J among the many evidences of the tae growth of nonpartisan non partisan or non cal ideas when associated with city and municipal rule surely i nothing more remarkable has come through the press than a speech made last thursday night in new york city by governor hazen S pingree of michigan the speaker reviewed his ad ministration as mayor or of detroit Detroi tand and it is the most splendid record of gle and triumph of patriotism over politics that has been presented the telegrams give quite a synopsis and the reading thereof is quite an inspiration friends of local reform can realize how many such questions are before this community As the news new s has already said there is opportunity y enough for legitimate contest room enough for steady and continuous w work ork without dragging in bolens no lens volens those issues which are remote 1 and outside the reach of city councils great and small f such a question is now before the people here and now viz the aleh a school question which should be de ter mined on a board a generous scale even but yet with due regard to M associated conditions without accepting the word of t those who champion the cause or ques questioning their motive it would appear P rather unseemly for interested profet prof pro feal ej signals to be the leading or prom nent adv advocates of the educational education 1 I scheme it is a matter of eXPer tenae al 1 that this interested element one con tenuously absorbed in it is a very am ag i 4 gres sive one and it has been demon A grated often that from their standpoints tad poin such persons are not considerate alth ettas of expediency or of the ability 0 of f ahr th who provide the sinews of war school teaching is in utah at pres pre quite a desirable position as is de by the number of appet appl lea received continuously from ev state in the union the writer to is a advocate of low remuneration 1 at where for faithful work yet the djs fici ency of public schools would be m way impaired if a general reduction reductio lo salaries took place all through sab school colp of this city noting A the e pend iture of a famil familiar tax school a WL r ago it was seen that it cost t the e freaa ury about eleven dollars annually each registered pupil exclusive of terest on sixty thousand dollars i annual repairs for the building so coupled it Is believed also by many t ers that they should kno know whether 8 the pupils of the city schools are b fide citizens or otherwise and it ato also be interesting to such to find how many parents of the children taxpayers not the payers of a non noni i socia ted d poll tax but legally api ap taxes from the possession of real es or personal property the public school facilities were itell 1 eluded in governor Pin grees improve ments but he evidently had looked isal along the line for in his ad in tion the city acquired its 0 own elec elect fEo light plant and gave public allu ilium ti tion at less than half the old ri gas also was was reduced one third roads unknown here were made p lie thoroughfares street car tp were greatly increased and the oost cost transportation lessened and t phone rates were also reduced tard opposition seventy five per T this might seem like egotist fi chance but the resume pardonable in the sunu sunlight gt i patriotism and thought a the interests of the laboring pap 1 V elonso a few thousand scattered all through the lend land lesson the burdens of an opi op people and probably preserve ebullition and those upheavals pear idear inevitable under present con blons ons such a man unless B cred by cabals cabala and rings would be a cond hercules in cleansing the stables of national ad ean ministration and making honorable habile bublic life and place instead of as I 1 arnow now when an official with fifty thousand dollars annual salary finds it tono honorable rable and practicable to retire r according to the press after two 10 11 of official life with a fortune jarms lo tona caching into the millions if vo much h moral force was con sent rated into one man as to the opposition that so come brave a reformer w was as called upon to meet augmented numbers of the caliber would speedily work a ame in this once th mighty c hange change prosperous n r ose e of f our 01 northern neighbors sug ts in the assumed impossibility of vern erni nent ent without party to have two ets for all local issues call citizens ticket and the wham the the ples ticket respectively but the pw cloven foot crops out in the cuero why not retain the name re ry lican and democrat as well as to new cognomen for contest dont a pt melv because it is in the very nature ply d marrow of poli till leal parties to drag issues which are of no weight or anent ent rather than to pioneer in the Ide ration of questions alluded to the brave mayor of detroit detroit now emor bernor of michigan B and sewage in addition to St Tater referred to by him are all imn MM questions here ere and will be un w settled as to command the ap B rf f the great majority let reform party it if such it to be its continue the agitation already so ne clou sly begun let the coming be the school 01 election upon people every tax mention tion of the fever should receive a carefully pre exegesis esis of the present situation strolled trolled by that political clamor ali declaims so boisterously against akhir ng the efficiency of the public ol 01 sy system stern a system which Is yet laa all for no man can predicate adb s a or otherwise until at least generation aeration has proved in citizen the results of that which is in t cart problematic as yet the M Is as far as observation goes re not yet save in few instances of study with td the routine 1 life when teachers can point out to each pupil there will be advance over much that is gai an i 1 at t prea present ent then defects may be ed excesses pruned and worth studies ei dispensed with for the t of a proximate perfect aduca te is not to turn out products all aed in the same form or with the t likeness as bricks in a yard or figs gs from a foundry individualism corrected and restrained must y se honored cultivated and de as soon as advanced methods supersede supersede fully the routine and typed processes of EL a professional occasional |