People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — School Enumeration. [ARTICLE]

School Enumeration.

Editor People's Pilot. The school enumeration of Indiana is showing an alarming falling off this year, most every county reporting a decrease; two, Marion and Vigo, show a loss of 13,000; even greater Rensselaer with its newly annexed divisions does not find as many children of school age as have been officially reported in former years. Figures will not lie. home examples can be understood by all; the wicked blight of the WilsonGorman tariff law 7 is preying upon every branch of American production; with its continuance a few more years, “The little red school house” will disappear from the land and Mother Winslow’s soothing syrup, for want of consumers, will find no sale. No better object lesson no plainer tariff pictures, do we need to show us the blight of freetrade than this unexpected decrease of school children in our state the past year. Protection.

No one should to read the speech of Mr. Harvey which appears in this-issue.