The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-11-24
The school Law.

could be said for and against the school
law, 50 that th.y could, if possible, come
to fair understanding of it. In this
spirit, We gave to our readers the whole
Of The objections Of the Democrat with
our replies thereto. The last Democrat
does not contain single quotation from,
or ssi- gle argument Of, the Adrertiser
on the subject. If there was no "argu-
''men.' in our article, as the Democrat
insiuuates, how easy it would have been
for it to have shown our weakness, or the
weakness of the law, by exposing the
fsllacies contained in it. It seems to OBJ
ject to our giving tho views Of any one
else and said:
= "Wc shall not give any one views sx-
cept our own, and we shall found them
on thorough examination of the law"
We are glad to learn that the views Of
tho Democrat are not the views Of any
Que else; and We think they will not be
Of any candid, reasonable, man. We are
glad to know that our "views" are those
Of many Of the best men Of our State Of
both parties. We are glad to learn that
the Democrat is about to give the law ga
Thorough examination > had it done so
before now, it might have saved itself
come humiliation. The views Of the
Democrat, on the township system, are SO
like those Of the "Lttera'y Adrertiser,'
of Iowa City, that, had not the Democrat
said its views were not those of any other,
we should think ii had, at least, read that
papgr. In reference to the township
system, wa have received communica-
tion, which, for want of time, will, this
week, take the place of our reply 1t
will be found in another column.
The Democrat says:
Every school should be an indcpend-
ent district by itself, and should manage
their own affairs in their own way, sub
ject to the laws Of the State
If there is any sense in the above
quotation, grammasieally or otherwise, We
would reply that We gave quotations from
the law, which showed that every district
could manage its own affairs. Why does
not the Democrat answer the law? The
Democrat objects to the Law, because the
County Treasurer "can only be compelled
ito pay once in six months We would
favor such a change as is suggested at
the same time, we think that if Demo.
cratic Treasurers were such great friends
Of the people, Al they pretend to be,
about election time, they nigh. pay over
Ito mo. e. in their hands, SO as to accom-
modate the people, without law express
ly compelling them SO to do. We
believe Republican Tre,surers would DO
it as the law is now. The Democrat ad.
mits .ha. it was wrong as to tho amount
paid County superintenaents; and does
cot attempt q reply on that matter. We
infer that it cannot answer the article we
gave from the Iowa Instructor; and relys
on tho dollar aud cent argument, which
it had SO cgregiously misstated. The
Democrat does not say whether there is
"Free School System in any Of the
States; and admits it don't know any
thing about the school laws of Ohio and
Pennsylvania; but it says:
1--WE will venture the assertion there
is no law in any state that is like ours"
Very likely; it is similar to the asser-
,ion that it made before, in reference to
the salaries Of County Superintendent
The Democrat says:
1--WE have seen enough, in our time,
to satisfy Us that the nearer public bust
ness, Of this kind is placed in the hands
Of the people the more interest they feel,
aud the better it will be attended to-"
This is an objection to the township
System that IL s too far removed from the
people: and yet the Democrat advocates
the taxing the property Of the whole
State to school the children of the State.
If tha. plan is not in opposition to the
above quotation, we cannot conceive of
che that would be.
The Democrat says:
1--WE have never advocated doing moth
ing Under the present law, but on the coa-
trary have been in favor Of keeping up
ctr schools until We can get it changed to
u hat Il should be-"
We would like to know, if, about four
teen months ago, the Democrat did not
oppose doing anything "under the pres
..cnt law and if it did not favor
sehool not in accordance with tho law I?
The Democrat says:
"There are some good things in the
law, these we should retain ("
We would like to know what these
good things are, for one would suppose
from reading the Demoerot that there
was net single redeeming feature in it.
Pray let US know what those "good
thing are, lest they might be the 6r.t
oncs that are repealed.
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