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ple of the State. It will not do to say that all the
citizens of Kentucky may have these licenses by ap-
plying for them, because there is not one out of every
one thousand of the people in the State who are, or
can be, in a position to fit themselves with the qualifi-
cations that the law requires before one can enter
either of these callings or professions, and while they
are all supposed to be for the benefit of the public,
the real object of the person securing the license is to
secure a personal privilege and benefit to himself
individually.
  In the case of the Normal School, the law requires
that before a person can enter one of these schools, he
or she must be eighteen years old and a graduate of
a district high school, or hold a county certificate to
teach school, and then be subject to the choice of the
county school superintendent, and that the number
who can thus enter is further limited by law, thus
prescribing conditions in that case. But I am told
that each one of these persons who enter Normal
Schools as beneficiaries of the State's bounty agrees to
teach in the common schools of the State as
many months as they attend the Normal School.
But I ask, do they teach these months free of charge
to the State And I am told, No. They are paid
the same price for this teaching that the other person
is who has paid his way through the Normal School.
So that, we find in this case that the State is selecting
annually from among its citizens a certain number
of young ladies and young gentlemen who are the
special beneficiaries of the State's bounty to the ex-
clusion of all others who are equally as well qualified
by birth, education, and environment, to receive its
bounty.