The poison fountain

Front matter

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Chapter I. PAGB

Anti-Parental Education — A people properly educated more prosperous, contented, happy and law-abiding than an uneducated people — State System of Education adopted in New England more than 200 years ago; its inevitable tendency to increase Crime, Pauperism, Insanity and Suicides; it furnishes six criminals where the Parental System furnishes one, as shown by statistics compiled from the U. S. Census Kex3orts — Anti-Parental School Laws of California — It is made criminal for a parent to take his own child from a public school, and send it to a private school without the consent of the School Directors 1

Chapter II

The Natural Law on the subject of Education as laid down by Bouvier, Blackstone, Kent, and Dr. Wayland — Conflict between State Laws and the Natural Law as regards education — A child expelled from a public school because in obedience to parental command he absents himself from school on a religious holiday — A penal offense for "&, parent to insult a public school teacher in California — General ignorance as to the real fruits of the State System of Education — Want of harmony among the friends of Educational Eeform — Causes therefor, and how they may harmonize — A j)latf orm broad enough and strong enough for all 14

Chapter IV

A voice from San Quentin — California educated convicts, all the younger criminals can read and write — Two more Peniviii Contents.

FAQS tentiaries necessary to accommodate Massachusetts Public Scliool pupils — California Public Scbools the high-road to the Penitentiaries — How the one serves as a Preparatory Department for the other 23

The "Leader" and the Common Schools continued — The

"Leader " becoming adverse to discussion 74

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Chapter XV

The " Leader " and the Schools continued — What they teach as History in the San Francisco Public Schools — Jefferson Davis loictured as a Thief — The Confederates charged with having hired Booth to assassinate Lincoln, and other ridiculous falsehoods gQ

Short Address to children — "Honor thy Father and thy

Mother" 188