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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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VOL.  XLIII.  APRIL, 1889.  No. 4.

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AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

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THE REMEDY—­BUT WHO IS TO FURNISH IT?

President Harrison’s Inaugural gives in a brief sentence the remedy for the great Southern difficulty, viz.  EDUCATION.

“If, in any of the States, the public security is thought to be threatened by ignorance among the electors, the obvious remedy is education.”

The Southern situation has been vigorously discussed in the last few months on the platform, and in the magazines and newspapers, and the conclusion to which the minds of thoughtful men is rapidly coming is that announced in the President’s Message.

But the remedy will not apply itself, and the means for an adequate supply of educational facilities must be furnished promptly or the time will soon come when the case will be hopeless.

WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF THIS SUPPLY?

1.  The public school funds of the States themselves.  This must be the main source.  We recognize the fact that the Southern States are comparatively poor, and the further fact, so greatly to their credit, that some of them are paying as large a per cent. on the assessed value of their property as do some of the Northern States.  But all the same, the supply of school houses and teachers is utterly inadequate.