Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-31
No. Is.


r tl CoLuMBrs, JAM 81, 1900.
Dear TylegropA; unusual pressure
of other business has prevented ourwri-
ting for several days. But the space so
left for other matters will doubtless be
filled with selections of more interest
As no measures of very great interest
have vet been matured, is not thought
important to fill our letters with details
Of ordinary business Several bills of
no special interest have been passed, and
a good many thought by. their authors
TO be vastly Important, ,zhasc beca sin=
continently' killed. 1t may. be very
wicked in us, but the fact is nevertheless
true, that the death 5of one bill usually
gives us more pleasure than the intro
duction of dozen The mania of Leg
islators, everywhere, seems to beto null
tiply laws, on all imaginable and unim-
aginable subjects, as well as an intermin-
able tinkering of those we have. We
think it a pretty safe. rule to vote fir
almost any proposition to repeal, and
against most ofthe new projects proposed
TO be enacted. The Legislature has
been in session three weeks, and there
have been introduced into the two
Houses about hundred and fifty bills.
A dozen of these ought to be passed for
their merits. Two dozen more proba-
bly, will pass, out of complaisance to
their authors, to be repealed at the next
session, and the balance, after occupying
the. time of the Houses indefinitely,
will, themselves, be indefinitely post
poned. a. t na
A most determined and persistent ef-
tort will be made to destroy our School
law, under very plausible, but very fall
lacious pretext. 1t is generally known
that under the present system the State
levy for the support Of Common Schools
is distributed throughout the State, in
proportion to the number of youth in
each District, without regard to the loca-
ton of the property taxed. 1t there
fore happens that those counties which
have more material wealth than chill
dren, pay into the Common School Fund
morethan they receive back, while other
Al
-paJ. This is claimed to be unjust, and,
at first sight, t,5itwould seem to be So, But
70 our mind it appears to be the only
principle Of equity upon which a system
of Common Schools can ever be main
tanned. -: .s!1a -5- ,: ~. :.s-,-.s. t.-..s Sd.
The only theory upon which we can
Justify tax at all for the purposes of
education is, that the State being sover-
eign, has a right to tax the property of
the State, for the purpose of educating
the people of the State. If this theory
be not sound, then the. whole system is
built upon fallacy and ought to fall.
But if the principle is right then the
money, wherever collected, ought to be
appropriated to the children wherever
they may be- And when the State, in
it's sovereign power, has laid its hand
upon the wealth of Nicholas Longworth,
who has no children to educate, and has
swept into her School Fund the tribute
which he is thus compelled to pay, we
cannot see why those who may happen
to live in Hamilton County, have any
more right to that fund than those living
out~of. it. Yet because Hamilton and
several other counties which have in
them men of vast wealth, which makes
their proportion of the sehoo tax greater
than their proportion of children, they
are striving with desperation to change
the law. But such a change would in
our opinion, strike at the vitals of the
whole system of Common Schools. aay
Let it be once admitted that it is un7
just to expend any part of the School
Fund outside of the county in which it