NOVEMBER 5, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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FBAKCIS B. LIVESEY
Answers ttas IadpiidBt'a Inquiry 'and
CoatlsmM HI Plan -for the AboII
tloa ef PsibUe Schools
(The letter below is self-explanatory.
The Independent seldom has space
for reprinting circulars, which ac
counts for the "refusal" of Mr. Live
Bey's former "voluntary offerings." Mr.
Livesey apparently does not take
kindly to any but "business proposi
tions.". Is his anti-school crusade a
"business proposition?" Js his solici
tude for the children as great as his
desire to allow wealthy but childless
people to escape the payment of school
taxes? In any vent, which appears
more like a "business proposition?" ;
There is an old saying that it takes
all kind of people to make a world.
As but few of The Independent's read
ers know of the vigorous campaign
against the public schools being con
ducted by Mr. Livesey, we publish his
letter. In fullof course,, repudiating
in toto his attempt to break down the
public school system, yet admitting
that it has its defects Asociate Edi
tor.) " PUBLIC SCHOOL ABOLITION.
Editor Independent: In your issue
of September 17 page' 10,, you, chide
me for not answering you. I humbly
apologize and will here give my ex
planation in a dialogue:
Independent Livesey dodges!
Livesey-j-Not when I think a thing
means business in good faith. I stand
as a target for the bullets of the world.
Even pebbles tossed jestingly at me
I have essayed to consider, until
friends and foes,- alike, protested. I
consider yours rather in the nature of
one of these pebbles.
Independent Francis B. Livesey of
Sykesville, Md., has been for a num
' ber of years circularizing the news
papers of the UnitedStates asking
them to "read, print, circulate" his
screed3 against the public schools.
Livesey My circulars on this y line
have been rather a recent feature.
Thousands of letters and articles have
been written by me for papers direct,
end thousands of them have been pub
lished in the largest dailies as well
as the smallest cross-roads papers.
. Not long since I sent you one or more
of these voluntary offerings, which
you refused to publish, while you de
voted some space to . treating me to
put.it mildly in a very cool manner.
This treatment added a little to my
indifference in not answering you at
length, although just lately you had
published a note from me. I suppose
you see by this tlmethat the public
school question has a bearing on the
" problems of th--day and must bej
reckoned with.
Independent Some time ago The In
dependent suggested that it would be
interesting to know where Mr. Live
sey learned the vigorous English he
uses in denouncing the public school
system. He ignored the hint.
Livesey Yes, as aforesaid, "the
hint" I did not deem a business pro
position. "
Independent Later, hi answer to
another batch of his circulars, the as
sociate editor wrote him a personal
letter making the same suggestion. To
this Mr. Livesey replied:
Editor Independent: As Pitchfork
Tillman got his vigorous English from
the barn yard, so I got mine from be
hind the plow and "before the mast.'
Truly, Francis B. Livesey.
Livesey Many leading writers are
now acknowledging that intellectual
vigor is best secured when founded
upon physical vigor. Count Tolstoi Is
one who has made arduous manual la
bor a concomitant of bis intellectual
effort. So, in this light, my answer
was both polite and comprehensive.
Independent Now, The Independent
believes that the best lecturers in be
. half of ec'totallsm are those who have
been through the mill of drunkenness
and. by parity of reasoning, the best
equipped nssallant of our public school
system should b one who lias him
pelf suffered from the debasing effects
of It! Hence, its suggestion: It tie
HOWS THIS?
We offer Ono Hundred Dollars He
ward for any ca of Catarrh tLat enn
rot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
P. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,.
Toh do. O.
We, the undersign!, havo kr.o-.?n
V, J. Cheney for the list 15 year, an 1
believe him perfectly honorable In all
bulneji transaction and financially
able to carry out any obligation nud
ly their firm.
NVet & Trust, WholesaU nrucgtttf,
Toledo, O,
WftMtn. Klnnan A Marvin. Wfcoto-
xU lruR ltsi. Toledo. O
lUll'g Catarrh Cure Is taken Inter
nally, acting directly upon the Moo.!
md mucous nurfaeet of the nyifm,
Trice, T&c per bottle, fold by ll drug
giite. TretlmoulaU fret,
JtUU'i Faintly VllU ire the Ifit
sired to know Mr. Livesey's qualifica
tions. Livesey Ah, well, this is a horse
of entirely another color! Literary
style is one thing and life experience
are another.; See? I thoroughly agree
with The Independent on this point,
and say that every reformer should
have experienced the ups and downs
of everything connected with his re
form. I was sent only to the best private
schools until about 17 years of age,
although at one time I was taught at
home. The whole of it was by the
memorizing process, exactly as is prac
ticed in the public schools. The whole
of it was torture to me and has left
its marks on my mind and body to
this day.
Like all boys, I knew not what I
suffered." I know now, and it is in
this knowledge that Lam now work
ing to get the boys relieved, and not
from any of the selfish motives, eco
nomical or religious, that are some
times impugned to me.
The public, school differs only from
the private school in severity, and if I
suffered all that I did from the latter,
I can well believe that Edward Bok
told the truth when he said that the
public schools kill yearly 50,000 of the
modern Innocents and ruin double as
many more or less for life.
I have also been intimate friends
with many public school superinten
dents, principals, teachers and pupils,
and from their own lips and pens have
received my corroboration of public
school conditions.
Ex-Supt. Henry E. Shepherd of Bal
timore, for instance, has told me that
I have not half told the public school
situation and has authorized me to
publish him to that effect. ""'
When. I was attending school my
parents took me to Fowler and Wells,
Jhe eminent phrenologists, for exam
ination. Prof, Fowler gave my par
ents a most emphatic warning that my
mind -must be kept back and my body
brought forward that they were kill
ing me.
Not that I was precocious in the
least, but that the system was injuring
me. Perhaps hiswarning saved my
life, as I , was allowed to run the
streets pretty freely about that time.
When I left school at 17 I was not
ap far advanced as the average 12-year-old
public school boy, and after
I became of age I fojind I really, knew
nothing.
I went to work with my hands and
began to think; I finally had to go
back to a primer and get my educa
tion all over again, digesting it as I
went along. This took some years. .
I was like one of the leading writers
of the day who says: "I owe no col
lege anything." This writer has been
engaged on leading magazines and pa
pers, and, after graduating from two
colleges, said the above. So say I, I
owe no school anything.
As it was with me, so it is with
many a normal child. Bodily activ
ity is the rule for childhood and men
tal activity for adult life just the re
verse of the present private school,
public school and parochial school pro
cesses. They are all alike damnable
and hellish and the nations most giv
en to their acceptance are feeling in
various ways the helish results.
I am not at present emphasizing the
point against private and parochial
schools because thev are not beinc
'forced upon the people by compulsory
scnooi laws, as are the public schools.
Neither are they compelling those who
disbelieve in them to support them.
Neither are they proving the stepping
stones to state socialism by leading to
state food, clothing, shelter, beer and
tobacco as well as to a so-called edu
cation. Lvcry m;.n and woman that sane
tioos the present school system has
no claim to Christianity. Christ com
manded no school. His enemies said
to Him: "Whence knoweth this man
Utters, having never learned?"
Christ s source was my sotiw.
Independent It seems evident that
Mr. Livesey has dodgpd.
ILvesoy Doe It seem evident now?
Independent Ills handwriting bears
earmarks which Indicate that he may
have learned to write In one of the
very sort of whoola he affecta to de
rplao. If so, he is qualified to tle
nonnrft them,
I.lve:ey Thero an more things to
be learned out of achools than In them.
Nowadays. rook, rarmere and ma
chines are all existed to be turned
out from tl Ki ho.d.i rather than from
flrprentlrefchlpn to the real thlnj-H
theniM-Ire. Mr little nUU are learn
ing to rlte without mhooh. and with
r.o fpedal, hatred tank.
How It U that hkj like ISolton Hall
can plead for child liberty and allow
or force child study, rftnnnt conceive.
Independent-Unt If he really
barned the thre U'n behind the plow
aM bf fore the inat, thr The Inde
pendent ln!t that be ha laid mi
foundation for eipert tcntlmonr on the
Kuhjeet.
Uvesry As I have clihldaM Use
point here made, I will not repeat
The results attending my crusade,
nowever, seem to prove that I have
some "expert testimony" from some
where.
School superintendents and" teachers
of public schools have directly ac
knowledged all my contentions. Many
ii the public school teacher I know
who teaches only because unable to
earn a livelihood in any other way,
The editor of one of the very oldest
ana largest public school journals pub
lished my most ultra articles, acknowl
edged his agreement with me on ev
ery point, and laughed at his constit
uents when not one of them attempted
to reply to me, but rather one of them
came out in public indorsement of me.
But the fact is, Mr. Editor, I am
getting somewhat beyond the little
details of the anti-public school cru
sade. We are now on the verge of revolu
tion, either from the forces of labor, or
the negro. Both are the products of
the public school. Both have im
bibed from it the idea that the world
owes every man a living commensur
ate with his acquired public school
Ideals, rather than as a reward for la
bor. When both labor and the negro find
that they have been deceived they
howl and they proceed by sharp prac
tices and crime to gain what they
have been disappointed in.
Things have got to such a pass with
the negro that something like a ma
jority of The people now want him
deported. It seems not unlikely that
he will be.
When these 10,000,000 negroes are
sent back to Africa, or somewhere,
then my public school abolition has a
10,000,000. slice cut from it at once.
Later, ' when the labor revolution
comes, the country will see that all
this state paternalism has been a mis
take, and that it has given the" masses
a feeling of too much confidence and
dependence, and must be revoked. And
then the public schools will go their
way, never to return.
I am always ready, Mr." Editor, to
answer questions from friend or foe.
But I am a busy man and questions
must be put to me straight. I repeat,
hints from an editor to answer him,
after he has emphatically refused me
publication, and denounced me at the
same time, are not calculated to draw
out even so spontaneous and dan
gerous a man as I am.
I welcome posers on my line, and
the smarter the man they come from
the easier I can answer them a half
fool heeds complexity.
FRANCIS B. LIVESEY.
Sykesville, Md.
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO.. LIVE
STOCK COMMISSION MER
CHANTS. SO. OMAHA,
NEB.
Cattle Monday's heavy receipts
were all day arriving. Tuesday's run
was light owing to election and a
steady to stronger market. Some of
the common stuff is very slow sale.
The demand for feeders is not so brisk
but there is more demand for stock
ers, especially yearlings. Prices were
weak to lower Wednesday.
vVe quote choice cornfed steers
$4.90 .to $5.25, fair to good shortfed
J4.50 to $4.80, heavy western beef
steers $3.70 to $3.90, choice heavy feed
ers $J.50 to $3.60, medium $3.20 to
$3.40, common grades down to $2.50,
yearling steers, choice, $3.50 to $3.C5;
others $3.10 to $3.40. Oood fat cows
and heifers $2.50 to $2.80, stock helf-
ers?2.2o to $2.40, canners $1 to $1.50:
milkers and springers $20 to $35, steer
calves $3 to $4; veal $i to $5; grass
bulls $1.50 to $2.
Receipts of sheep heavy and the
market Is 10 to 15c lower than last
week.
Killers. Feeders.
Lambs .,....,.$1.154.25 $3.904.(10
Common : 3.003.10
Vearllngs 3.5: 3.70 3.333.60
Wethers ....... 3.153.40 3.1&-3.30
Kwmj 2.30 2.C0 1.75-2.30
Hok receipts light. Market declin
ing fast. Range $1.75 to $5.00.
H6.40 CHICAdd and RETURNS 16.40
Via.
ROCK ISLAM) SYSTRTl
DatM'of Bale. Nov. 2'J and .If), Dtv. 1,
Hot! for return until Dv. 7. For In
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