Excerpt from Township and Union District High Schools in Illinois AS Americans we are all justly proud of our system of free public schools. This is true alike of those who live within the in uence of the little red school house of the rural district and of those whose children are educated in the more imposing structures which house our city schools. The intimate relation existing between a successful democracy and the intelligence of the people who compose it is now generally recognized. No one longer questions, therefore, the right of taxing all for the support of schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."