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68 Document No. 5. [Session
Such a fnndj once established, will attract to itself large in-crease
from private benefactions. The very imperfect statistics
which Gen. Eaton has been able to gather on this snbjecty
show that the gifts by private persons to education in this
country during the past year amount to $8,533,760. This in-cludes
no gifts but money, and only such large sums as are
specially reported in the newspapers. The subscriptions to
great charitable organizations, like the American missionary
associations, collections made in churches, or by subscription
papers, are not counted,
" A well adiiiinistered national fund will attract many such
gifts, and will, doubtless, receive additions ot such moneys a&
frequently come to the treasury from special sources, which
ought not to be expended for the common uses of the govern-ment.
It will be a perpetual and ever-increasing fountain of
knowledge, liberty and wealth.
" The bill now awaits the action of the Senate. "What that
action will be, and what will be the action of Congress on this'
subject hereafter, will, of course, depend largely on the intelli-gent
judgment of the country. It should be borne in mind
that a most careful and anxious canvass has satisfied those most
deeply interested, that a measure framed on the principles
above described is more likely to unite a majority of both
houses of Congress in its favor than any other they can devise.
This alone should commend it strongly to the favorable judg-ment
and support of all friends of the great cause of educa-tion."
I may say that the National Educational Association which
held its twelfth annual meeting in the city of Boston, begin-ning
on the sixth day ot August last, composed of emment
educators from all parts of the Union, fully endorsed the edu-cation
bill now pending in the United States Senate, and
unanimously adopted a resolution asking the Seoate to pass
the bill
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| Full Text | 68 Document No. 5. [Session Such a fnndj once established, will attract to itself large in-crease from private benefactions. The very imperfect statistics which Gen. Eaton has been able to gather on this snbjecty show that the gifts by private persons to education in this country during the past year amount to $8,533,760. This in-cludes no gifts but money, and only such large sums as are specially reported in the newspapers. The subscriptions to great charitable organizations, like the American missionary associations, collections made in churches, or by subscription papers, are not counted, " A well adiiiinistered national fund will attract many such gifts, and will, doubtless, receive additions ot such moneys a& frequently come to the treasury from special sources, which ought not to be expended for the common uses of the govern-ment. It will be a perpetual and ever-increasing fountain of knowledge, liberty and wealth. " The bill now awaits the action of the Senate. "What that action will be, and what will be the action of Congress on this' subject hereafter, will, of course, depend largely on the intelli-gent judgment of the country. It should be borne in mind that a most careful and anxious canvass has satisfied those most deeply interested, that a measure framed on the principles above described is more likely to unite a majority of both houses of Congress in its favor than any other they can devise. This alone should commend it strongly to the favorable judg-ment and support of all friends of the great cause of educa-tion." I may say that the National Educational Association which held its twelfth annual meeting in the city of Boston, begin-ning on the sixth day ot August last, composed of emment educators from all parts of the Union, fully endorsed the edu-cation bill now pending in the United States Senate, and unanimously adopted a resolution asking the Seoate to pass the bill |
