Influence of Public Schools [excerpt]

     In my opinion the teachers of the public schools have a powerful influence over the children. They lecture to them for hours, and speak so pathetically that I do not blame the children for being shocked at the word Anarchy; and were I not brought up among radical people who talk and explain to me, I would no doubt be of the same opinion as they are.
     At the time of McKinley’s death, compositions were written, children were dressed in mourning, special receptions made, his favorite hymns sung; and all because he, a tyrant, was shot down by a man who could not look on calmly at the sufferings of the working people. But in the tunnel accident in New York, so many lives were lost, and yet they would not think of writing compositions about them, oh, no! for they were only the common working people; but they forget that it is these “common people” who support the country and its heads.