The idea of compelling one county to support schools in other portions of the State was not considered just or right. The principle is that men are protected by the State in the measure of their wealth, and the wealthy are just as much interested in the proper education of the people in Cape May as they are in the counties in which they reside. Mr. Green dissented from this principle. Mr. Cutler took the opposite view. The wealthy portions should consider what they have gained by legislation.
Some counties have more property than others.
He referred to the reports of the Comptroller for 1871 and 1872, characterizing them as able, and their arguments on this questions as unanswerable in favor of the present system. The difficulty was more in consequence of an imperfect sys. He was a convert to the doctrine that the children of the State ought to be educated by the State. Mr. Gregory thought the principle was clearly wrong, and producing unjust taxation, and presented a number of arguments to support his proposition. They were subjected to errors in the enumeration of children, and from a variety of other causes.