The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 49
A Common Language
A Common Language.
But, after all, the vexed question of religion aside, see the gain to the Republic by giving a common language to all its children, through the common schools. Then why, if that is a gain, provide a teacher of German wherever a few German children are found, or, where there are many, give them a school with German as its language, as in Erie, Penn.? There is room for any thing and every thing except religion.