The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-18

WHEELING. WEST YAa TUESDAY. ISIS.

selves, and to the positive injury of our
educational systems. We are all
"woFkmg men, = no 'natter whether we
lbof withIthe body or the mind; and
the man who holds out any other view
should be looked upon with suspicion,
II not seorned and secuted as "a public
enemy..s "a .qi ia g,fntt f5
z AS toiathe additional cost of books
arising from an equal exchange, 1 do
not charge that the city book sellers
ever ask extortionate prices for / do
not know that they do nor do I know
that they do not; and what j. x. d.
says on this subject may all be true.
But certainly the superintendent and
Principals are not responsible for this /;
porr does II grow out of q change of
books. But the publishers alone are
Responsible, and the public cannot com
troll it; and perhaps 1t is not desirable
that they should. But be this asst may,
the people must have the books, and
should have the best, aud these they
cannot have without occasional changes.
Z AS to eXtortion from, all quarters, at
home and abroad, they must project
publisher agrees to put in his books
and continue, them, on terms equal to
those of, another, what right has that
Other, or the bookseller, to- complain 2
II have yet to learn that public schools
were instituted, except incid dentally, for
Iu6 Ueueul OI elIueE DuDllSQeTb OF UOOk-
sellers. z i hud supposed insmy verdane
cY that they were Intended for thesben-
eft of the whole community, and
especially for that of the poorer classes.
r: And now let me say with all due re-
spect to our new Board of Education;
according to them as a body the very
best Intentions, that while believe
they have committed some veryserious
Misunderstanding in part from their
persistent refusal 10 be l.advisedin by
those best acquainted with the educa-
tional interests of the city, and from
their indulgence of unjust and unwar-
rantable suspicious against the Super
intendent and Principals-if they re-
fuse to meet the late petition in regard
to text books, in the same spirit in
which it was offered, giving'ample OPP
Portunity for a full and free discussion
of the whole subject, and in the pre-
sence of the whole community, fit
should be desired, as was done by the
old Board, then this will be the most
against the public interest in more
ways than one.l ,- s.
d Though the Superintendentand Prin-
cipals are the Servants" of the Board,
in the sense of being in their employ
ment, aud though they are occasional
.ly reminded OF this fact in rather hu-
initiating terms, they claim that in
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advisers of the Board also; inasmuoh
as they are the only parties who, from
the nature OF the case, can be fully ac-
quainted with the internal condition,
wants, and operations OF the schools.
On these points they ought to be con-
suited, and that too with proper defIer7
eneeto their views aud opinions, And
1t may as well he understood first as
last, and the sooner the better, perhapsp
for all concerned, that in assuming the
relations of servants, y they have not
surrendered their rights as freemen;
but reserve to themselves the liberty OF
criticising the acts of the Board:
with the same freedom as that
enjoyed - by iis,any other citizen.
They ask simply to have such
courtesy shown TO them by the menu
beers of the Board, as one gentleman,
acting in the same cause, should show
to another. Met in this spirit on the
parU OF the Board, the act would be re-
ciprocated, and thus both parties would
be enabled To move ON hartnoniously in
building up our public schools, and adj
5vanoing the best interests of society.
This doubt not is the object of their
mutual desire. The only difference is
'as 10 the best means OF attaining il, and
has taught that concilia-
tory course is the wisest, safest, and
most successful policy in the end.