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[} Se r j V i The ladies of Kii - I to be the most ii | Hing'sl SENATOR EPPS VERSUS COMPULSORY EDUCATION. I (Continued from Eighth i>aj?e.) near that point where we are willing to require of others what we ? ? i in: ourselves wouia oe unwumiK uu. Would the Senator, the author of this bill, accept an amendment to strike out in line 7, section 5, the words "private school"? If we are to have a public school system under a compulsory school law,let us agree here and now to meet upon a common level and bind ourselves in a common cause. It is an easy matter for those of us who live in towns or in thickly settled communities to treat this bill with indifference and to call it harmless, for under its pro- j viainns snrh communities are practi-1 cally safe. Where conditions war- j rant a multiplication of schools parents would soon have a variety of choice?private schools, public schools, and families who could aff&Td it, would have private teachers solely for their own children. The co-operative spirit, which in our educational interest^ now unites us everywhere,would be broken, if not destroyed. Say what you may, my friends, but these are the conditions that you invite when you vote for this law. But this is not all, nor is it the worst. Let us turn to the rural community, to the one-school community, where within the past few years a revolution of advancement and progress has taken place, where evolution is still at work and where there is harmony and the sweetness of peaceful relation existing, where the children of the well-to-do play and frolic together with the children of the common laborer,perhaps ignorant, yet true, honest and upright. This voluntary association of such children soon inspires in the little hearts of the less fortunate ones the longing desire for the priv ileges and pleasures of the schoolyard. The result is certain. And this, Senators, is the means and the only true method of educational completeness. I am afraid that the heads of our educational depart4 ments, in their zeal to rush reform, are overlooking the great fundaf mental principle. Now, shall we say, by any act of ours, that we will disturb the pleasant relations existing throughout our State? Shall we de, stroy the spirit of unity, the spirit; of liberty and the smoothness of our present system by enacting this bill, which could be made operative in practically every rural school district in the State and by less than half the citizens of that district? The advocates of this hill who claim I Snrincr IWednt S. MAI 88888888388888383888883 L mi-Am /ednesda I igstree and Williarr nportant Millinery< pee Dry that it is a harmless measure should admit that they are not acquainted rlifiyM-io in rnrol CAmmiini. Willi lUilUI IIU1JO 111 lit' 141 ties. So I appeal to you in behalf of the one-school community to kill this dangerous proposition. 1 appeal in behalf of the school whose trustees are indifferent as^to the selection of teachers, and the school whose trustees, although careful, have made mistakes. I appeal in behalf of the parents who desire to educate their children under conditions of only wholesome influence, and who might by chance be located in'a district where good management and discirxlilAA nAf aK| oin JJllllC uu nut UUtOIll. The friends of this bill need not attempt to check our opposition, nor need they try to lessen our determination to prevent its passage bv displaying "black maps" or by suggesting disgraceful figures and showing low averages in our State as compared with the great Northern State of Massachusetts, the great Northwestern State of Washington. the magnificent state ot tne great Keystone on the Atlantic or with any other great State. Such comparisons do not disturb thoughtful minds; for we know that they dare not, in comparison, draw the averages as to the true intelligence, character and citizenship of these same great States with the manhood and womanhood of South Carolina or the culture and refinement of her people. If education under compulsory law consists simply of reading and writing, or u tnese simple arts are to be made the basis of average in measuring the intellectual worth of a people, as seems to be the implied purpose of this bill, then God pity the law. Shall we throw to the winds our efforts of the past fifteen years in uniting our people and organizing them under one great, harmonious and co-operative system of common schools? Shall we admit that the time is at hand when we may lay aside the methods of kindness, persuasion and wholesome agitaci<. through which our present system has developed? Shall we substitute for this real educational work this insidious measure of doubtful origin and un-American principle? Shall we arouse to the point of resentment the prejudices.superstitions and misgivings of a less cultured element by thrusting them under a cloud of suspicion and imaginary evils? Shall we hold over their heads what must needs appear to them a. barbarous weapon of legal force? If we would only picture in our minds the wonderful results of our Millinei isdav an RCUS, nual Mi y and Thi lsburg County are c( event of the season. Goods ( present system,the smoothness of its j machinery, the loyalty of our people | and their pride in our schools; if we ! - - .... ? , ,i would only be mindful or tne developing influences which are now so rapidly loosing our people from the bonds of ignorance; then it would be an easy matter for us to swear by all that is eternal that we shall let well enough alone. Our people are not desirous of any change in our educational system. And if they are asking for anything, it is for bread. Shall we, through this deceptive bill, hand them a stone? Shall we. so soon after the recent strife, again sow seeds of political riot and immediately leave the field to demagogues for cultivation? Friends in this Senate, if this bill passes.I shall propose an amendment exempting Williamsburg county, and I earnestly ask that should you vote for the bill, you vote also for the proposed amendment. Only a few days ago this Senate . fell fiat upon the only opportunity which has beep offered within the past twenty years for registration reform, and perhaps the only opportunity which we, as Senators, shall ever see. Had the Clifton amendment been adopted, had we taken that first forward step towards the haven of social, political and educational perfection, we would now have been in a position to discuss with sincerity and with measured and careful judgment the further requirements of still greater progress. But how signal the failure! Eleven votes marked the strength of that effort. Senators,until we shall have passed and provided a law of requirement which shall be the means of making everv white citizen in South Carolina a qualified and registered voter.prepared to meet at the ballot box any issue proposed for settlement under the rules of our general election laws, I, for one, shall eternally cast my ballot against all such legislation as is proposed under this McCravey1 rr.vson bill. Best Kdowd Cough Remedy. For fortv-three vears Dr Kiner's New Discovery has been known throughout the world as the most ( reliable cough remedy. Over three , million bottles were used last year. ] Isn't this proof? It will get rid of your cough, or we will refund your money. J J Owens of Allendale, S C, writes the way hundreds of others J have done: "After twenty years, I [ find that Dr King's New Discovery! 1 j is the best remedy for coughs and ] colds that I have ever used." 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