The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-05-14
More about Ike Graded school.

More about Ike Graded School.
Mr.. EliW:- Please allow me few
words in reply to ECONOMY" who
lately, in your columns, has been so in
du.triously--if not expcrtly-rding his
pet hobby. | am pleased that he is
freely vcntilating himself ON tho subject
of the Graded School. 1t must be
relief TO him to get ril Of that kind of
sense of which lie is so full. To keep it
corked would be painful to the bottle.
l am 2rieved that Economy should say
under the thin guise Of friendship to the
School what lie all along has been
saying. As poor Arlemus said of South
ern friendship, che has queer way OF
shown it," The one thing that from
the beginning Economy has consistently
advocated has been an indefinite, an eter-
nal adjournment of this project to which
the village over and again has pledged
itself. Economy well knows that the
tax payers Of our village cannot afford to
ra SC at once and Immediately the S25,-
900 voted. Nor is there citizen Of the
village who would squirm more Violently
at paying thi, year and now his share Of
it than Economy himself.
The friends OF the school never cOu d
have hoped 10 carry the measure through
had they insisted that all should be done
in one ycar-the house built and palu
for. Many Of us coui not possibly have
pUid so large Il tax adde1 to our other
taxes State and National. We 'elt and
still feel that so big and so grand thing
must be done by piecemcal, by INSTALL
mcnts $4,000 laid this year, twice ms
much next, and the remainder raised Ivy
village bonds, falling due gradually in
the years TO come.
When Economy gravcly and persist
emily asks us to undo much of what we
have done in district meetings, night
after night, unvote our votes and vote to
lai'e hoc the $4,000, he knows and
everybody else knows that lie is i'm his
best to throttle the School, which only in
purpose can yet be said to be born. The
people of this village have been deter
mined ans by repeated ballots have so
expressed themselves, to do the thing that
t, u'd be done. Economy asks us now to
give all that the 60 ly aud when our res
olutlons shall be rcscindcd he has one to
offer which every one knows never can
be carried. The Graded School thus
meets itS early death unhonored and
un ,un, and m cts it, too, at the hands OF
prote>s,d flnl.
TO the s25 900 which, raised immc.
diately and put at Interest for serics of
y rs shall swell 10 the sum nee led, it is
amusing to see how cody Economy adds
what would be saved in the pay of
teachers. Verify, there is economy for
you. Reckon in dollars and cents the
bread you can save by starving your
children.
But we have one sweeping answer to
all this talk Of Economys. The trustees
of the Grammar School made us of the
new consolidated district an offer of their
property. In full meeting we accepted
1t our Prudential Committc acting for
us, signed that contract BY the terms
of that agreement we have solcnnlyl
pledged ourselves to begin work upon tho
School building 10y May. 1868, and to
complete it within ''rea:onablc time" II
am unwilling, Mr. Editor, TO bc told, in
your paper, week after week, that ! can
annul that agreement when please, as |
please, and for what please, as the
within scizrs me. do not hold my prom
ises at that value nor shall the people OF
Middlcbury seriously be exhorled to prove
false to theirs without Il protest from
A CITIZEN AND 4 TAX. rAYER.