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VOL IV. NO. 21. NEBRASKA CITY , NOVEMBER 28 , 1901. SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENT
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The numerous
SYMPOSIUM. and able articles
upon educational
methods in this issue of The Conserva
tive merit the thoughtful consideration
of every citizen. But the best way to
permanently improve the human family
as to physical and intellectual vigor is to
teach youth that like begets'like , and to
impress upon the mind of up-coming
boys and girls that soon they will be
men and women fathers and mothers.
The common schools of the United
States , the high schools , the academies ,
the seminaries , the
Everything Else , colleges and the
universities , teach
almost everything useful to civilization.
They instruct in all languages and all
sciences. Agriculture , horticulture ,
forestry and arboriculture generally are
explained and inculcated.
A few years ago the anatomy and
physiology were not among books for
youth to study.
Heredity. They were locked
up out of Fight and
away from school-attending youth. But
now they are taught everywhere and it
is a good thing for the race that they
are. But the inexorable law of heredity
ought also to be studied by the youth of
the United States. The fact that in-
sonityx epilepsy , appetite for liquor ,
tuberculosis , gout , and scores of other ,
undesirable traits , taints and trends are
transmitted to descendants , ought to be
known to every intelligent fifteen-year-
old boy and girl in American schools.
Under the present system of haphazard ,
passionate marriagesthe breed of Amer
icans has about reached the mental
summit of their possibilities. The com
plete understanding of the transmission
of natural and acquired characteristics
of both body and mind will make the
uture of our race better. Such an in-
reduction to the study of the law of
leredity as the common schools can
asily give will lead to more profound
nvestigation in the higher institutions
of learning and result in marriages be-
ng made for good reasons instead of
'or caprices or from mere passion.
When human beings are bred with as
much care as are now bred Trotting
lorses , Short-horned cattle , Berkshire
rigs or even Plymouth Rock chickens ,
; ho men and women of the United
States will steadily , visibly improve.
Let us have text-books on Heredity in
American schools.
The Conserva-
COMMON tive- wishes that
SCHOOLS. the common
schools of the
United States would thoroughly teach
pupils how to read , write and spell
bhe American language correctly. It
is a lamentable fact that only a small
per cent of the boys and girls attend
ing the public schools of this country
acquire the accomplishments of skill
fully spelling , reading and writing
their own language. '
The science of numbe-a , as our old
arithmetic defined itself , is not very
carefully taught in
Arithmetic. the public schools.
But it should bo
made next in importance to reading ,
writing and speaking English cor
rectly.
The knowledge of geography gained
by attendance in these times upon
the average public
Geography. school is exceed
ingly limited.
This is a marked defect italicised in
the system of education of which we
brag so continually and so vehemently.
The supreme importance of telling
the truth at all times , in all places ,
and under all cir-
Truth Telling. cumstances , is not
enough prominent
in the common school teachings of
America. The fact that the admir
able character and successful iudivid
uality can only be constructed for or
by a human being too proud to lie , is
not made prominent enough in public
school precepts. The great and noble
virtues of honor , fidelity to principles
and friends are not enough in evi
deuce among teachers and pupils in
his country. Honesty for the sake
of honesty itself , and not because it
merely is the best policy , should bo
drummed and hammered into each
and every child attending the schools
of this country.
If nowadays we have any common
ohools they ought to thoroughly in
culcate a knowledge of common things
iccessary to intellectual and moral ed
ucational development. The numer
ous fads , caprices and hobbies of "the
modern educator" are not always
equivalent in practical and beneficial
results to the reading , writing , spell-
ng , arithmetic and geography taught
by the old-fashioned "school marma"
and school masters of fifty years ago.
The Allen Maun-
GOVERNMENT faoturing Company ,
SEED DISof Toledo , Ohio , are
TRIBUTION. the manufacturers
of a patent fruit
picking machine , and in their descrip
tive circulars advertise a letter of rec
ommendation from the Henry Phillips
Seed & Implement Company of Toledo ,
and remark , concerning the Phillips
company , that it "was awarded the gov
ernment seed contract for 1898 and also
for 1901 , the last contract amounting to
something like $200,000. "
This government seed distribution is
0n interesting matter to us , but we
question whether any company can
properly , under present methods of
letting it , consider it anything credit
able to them to have been awarded the
government seed contract. Further
more , we would like to know how much
of a contribution the Phillips company
made to the republican campaign funds
in 1898 and 1900. Was it not quite one
thousand dollars ?
FROZEN TRUTH.
A man who bolted from Brj-auiHin in
1890 , but who swallowed it in 1900 , will
never be able to justify his first action
by his second orhis second by his first.
He forfeited the confidence of the Silver
men in 1896 and loat that of the Gold
men in 1900. He now retains the con
fidence of neither and has oven lost
confidence in himself.
On the contrary , those who rejected
Bryanism in both years have the respect
of 'those who accepted it in both years ,
and those who accepted it in both years
can secure the respect of those who re
jected it in both years. Thu uncon
ditional Gold men were in the right.
The unconditional Silver men were in
error. The men who were in the right
both times have nothing to explain. The
men who were in error both times have
nothing to retain. The former just
need to stand pat. The latter just need
totally to abandon their error. The
two sets can far more easily come to
gether than those who successively
joined and deserted each army in turn
can now commend themselves to either.
Brooklyn Eagle.