Needed School Chances

In selectiag a superintendent for our city schoof the scímoI board w-iïl do well not on'iy ta swraire a wide-Awake educator, but one wlio is up-ïo-date in the lowor as well as in the highc-r branches of instTuction. The primary departments att'ord instruction to the niass of t&e children ana aro of much more importa.nce to the community than the high school. Ye-t it is a -notorlous fact Ihat the waTd schools of this city -are not only not what they ougiit to be for the njonoy they cost but they are vastly ir.ferior to those in raany surrcunding towns which make no pretensions to educational excellence. And one reason for this is that a vicious systeni of inbreeding has prevailed in the ward schools vvhich has marie it absolutely impossible to secure efficiënt teachers. They have been filled with graöuates of our own big-fc school, who have had no technieal instruetion and vvlio take no part nor interest in the teachers' assoeiations, and who have rareiy seen tho iiiBide of a school 'room out ski e of this city. And not only have the technici] (i'.alificati'ons of too many of our ward teachers ibeen 'deficiënt, but the 7acancies have-bsen filled quite aften, we are told, by student who grad'uated from the high school n (me C clasa- too poor to entitled to admission into the Univorsity. With these (ConfiiKons existing is it auy wonder that our prinrary departments have deteriorated? The plain truth of the matter is that the high school has been built up at the expense of the Irnver grades, and while the people have been-boasting of the supeTior oxcellence dï' the former a dry rot has been eonsuming tte latter. In -the Oniteid States senate on Tuesdiay the Teller resolution, dedaring the bonds of the United States to fee payabïe ia-sllver or gold- whieh is red-handefl anarehy- was met by a resohitioo. introduced by gentlemaiiCy Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, declaring for gold paymenits aud in explicit tc-rms ptedging the faith of the goveniment The Lodge resolution reads: "Tha't all the bonds of the United States issued or aut'horized to be issuod under the said acts of eongress "r. payóle principal and interest in gold eoin or lts equivaíent, and tJwit any other payment wïthout üie consent of the creditor would be dn violation of tie public faith and in deroga non oí his rights." This is a sw-eeping sinnounceinent tirat the party to wJiich Mr. rxidge belongs favors tbe retentioa of the gold standard ana of nmking money dearer. This thf gold bugs cali honesft money. But liko honesty, the honest dollar is gettlng scarce. Miss Jaoe AJdams' address :n Ibis city ou Cnieigo aldermen has íreared no little excitement in Chicago. The Titnes-Herald in a leader editorial says in substance as follows: "At Ann Arbor Miss Jane Addajus deelared that in their efforts ro eleel a decent aJderman in tae Nineteenth ward they had to flght .against the lüoney of the monopolies and corpomtion. She eharged the president of the street railway company- Mr. ïerkes- vvith contrihuting $5.000 to "Johuny" Powers' campaign fund. In hor address in Chicago on Sunday Miss Addams stated that Mr. Yerkes scood ready to back Powers with $30,000 if ueeessary to defeat the will of the decent people in tliat waTd. Mr. Yerkes' organ kas made no refufatloji of these charges. Are the people to ■understaud that Jlr. Yerkes pleads guilty to the charge of bribiug an alderman by paying liis cainpaign fxyenses, thus secmring his vote f o measures that are ügainst the public inicrest? Debate on the Ha-a:ii annexatioi treaty continúes in the aeuate. Sena tor TUlmau, of South Carolina, made sonie assertions whieb ereated a breezy jatir for a few miimres. Thi South Carolina senator referred to the recent öawailan revolution, and to what he tevmed the effort oí ihe Kepnblican party to estabiisb a government in the interest of the white people in the islands vvtieu they numbered only about one out of thirty of the inhabitants. aud in tbis conneetion reierred to the reorganization of parfy J)iies in the Sojth after the war. "We were then," he said, "in South Carolina attempting to establish a white man's government. The Republican party intertered with us then, or attempted to do so, professing to hold opinions about the sacrèd rights of the majority to rule. I süould like to know," he continued, "whothPT the Repubücan party has changed lts opinión on this subject of the right of the white man to rule, for if lt has and will extend it to the southern states I will vote for the rreaty." "The distinguished senator from South Carolina evidently knows all about the effort to re-establish Ule white man's party in the tjjuth aíter tñe war, aud coul-J doubtless give us inuch Interesting infï.rmatiun ou thai point," said Senator Cliandler. "I do know jometiilng about' it," responded Mr. Tillman, "and I kiow tliat there was some cheaiing and some use of the shotgun in those tintes as theTe probably was in Hawaii." "The senator from South Carolina' would, I liardly think," interrupted Senator Hoar, "say In opea session what he has heie aid." "I am wi'.üng to say it anywhec," said SIr. Ti.llman. "I want the same policy all along the ine. Tbrow opru the doors and I will say what I have said before the entire world." Ex-Coagressman Towue, of Minne sota, decía red in Washingfen yester day that he was not a candidato foi the presideney in 1900 is many uews papers affinn. He saya be does no seek to have the silver Republiean. nomínate him to that high oiliee, dot does he present himself to the Dem oeracy as a compromise eandidate. Ex-Senator Dubois, chairman of the executive committee of the natioual silver Republican party, left for Washington and the east last night at the request of the silver leiders to confer with then. for the purpose of nniting all silver forces. Chairmnn Dubois says the vote in the sonate in favor of the Teller resoluuon ha., conviuced the silver advocates that with a close unioii of the silvw iorues victory in 189S and 1900 is certain. Under the contemplated arrangement the Topulists, silver Republicans and Democratie partios will each maintain a distinct organization. The Courier asserts that the metbod of assessing the sewer tax iu Anu Aibor was unjust. The Democrat has heard that a&sertlon before. Perhapa the Courier can marshal some factg to prove its assertion. Xo one else has T)een able to oaok it up wiih argument. But a sheet whieii can support Hazen S. Pingree and Jim McMlllan ■at one and the same time can do most anything. Judge Newklrk has eommouced The kin-ping of n record in the probate office which wlll fm-nish in conveuient form a complete record of the business eonnected with the estates af minors. As there are at present about 1,000 accounts of this character runrting, over which the probate oourt has supervisión, the usefulness of tlns record is at once appnrent. Since the sonate passed the Teller resolution 47 to 2 and the house turned it down 1S2 to 132 the Courier has out permission to amen:! wli.it it said, a few days since, conceróliig the re;ative usefulness of those two lodies in tiae go-verning business.