Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-03-25
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AGAIN.

ME -
The num-skull-h acknowledgements
bier has come outin anotherwindy column
of wordy, foolish and lying nonsense in
our mendacious contemporary in Virginia,
yesterday morning, about our Public
Schools. The Board Of Education very
properly sent to the Board of County
Commissioners an estimate of the prob
able expenses for keeping the Public
Schools in this County for the next
eighteen months, that the County Com
missioners, in making the assessment
for School purposes, might act with
their ewes open. This statement shows
that with an assessment of 30 cents on
each one hundred dollars Of taxable
property-the maximum allowed by law
there would be q deficit Of Sl2,sl5 10.
| Should a School be organized-as there
| should be-for the colored children, it
would Increase the amount Of the de-
felt about So,
In our article on the Public Schools a
few days since, we stated that there was
A demand for two more schools, one in
Gold Hill and the other in the Fourth
Ward in Virginia. But the condition Of
our School fund will not admit Of this
necessary enlargement of our School
facilities. Now, why is it that our
schools are in this embarrassed condi-
ton? Why is it that our Board of Edu-
cation have no money to continue the
schools until the taxes shall come in late
next autumn? 1t is because our Board
of Education have been charged with
the duty of keeping up our Public
Schools without the right Of determin-
ing the amount of money that shall be
raised-within a legal limit-to support
them, while the County Commissioners
have by law, the right to determine
within a prescribed limit-the amount
of money to be raised to support the
schools, while they are not charged
with the responsibility Of keeping them
in a sound and healthy condition.
Rights and duties are co-relatiye and
should 20 together. Hence, for the past
two years, the Board Of County Com
m~issioners, having nc immediate inter-
est or responsibility in School matters,
have assessed Is cents-the lowest pos
| sible amount allowed by law and had
| the minimum been 5 instead Of Is cents,
we have a right to infer that the Com
| missioners would have made the assess
ment upon the lowest figure. Hence for
the past two years, the annual School
| reyenue from County taxes has been but
| NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Had the Com
m~issioners done as they were importun-
ed by our County Superintendent and
Board of Education, this imperative ne
cessity for borrowing money, to keep
| our schools alive would have been en-
| tirely obviated. And who has more
persistently labored to bring about the
present unfortunate state Of affairs, in
School matters, than Daggett, the sore
headed, malignant and lying aspirant
for School honors who has, for more
than two years, poured into the minds
of the public, his malevolent and menda-
cious billingsgate, through the columns
Of a sheet, with characteristics more mer-
cenary, unprincipled, inhumau and filthy
than those Of the infamous Mdzeppd,
Varieties or any other black-mail PAN
derer to the lowest and basest passions
that ever corrupted and cursed the peo-
pie OF the Pacific coast? In his degraded
associations, the conversation of this
moral leper is ~inyoluntarily charged
with profanity terrifcally shocking and
disgustingly obscene. To his d%ebauched
mind, female virtue is a myth and moral
integrity has no Judgment in the human
breast. His diabolicsl spirit has ever
been a disturbing element in school
matters, and were his ability to create
and maintain discord and disturbance
equal to the villainous desires OF
his diabolical heart-if %perchance he
be endowed with an organ of this
description, with functions other than
that for the circulation Of his yiperous
blood through his loathsome nature
the Public Schools in Storey county,
ere this, would have been too debased
and d~emoralized to command the respect
or challenge the confidence Of the pub
lie. That we now have educational
facilities of the highest order-facilities
that constitute our boast and pride, the
promising earnest Of our moral and reli-
gious future, is in spite Of the Territorial!
Enterprise and the nasty brute that daily
vomits slime upon its columns. The
burden of its diatribes in regard to
school management has been robbery,
peculation, extravaganza, fanaticism,
incompetency and imbecility. The other
day, fifteen cents on each hundred dol
lars was enough for every purpose. The
mountebank, ignorant preteuder who
writes about schools, in speaking Of tho
straightforward, truthful, business-likc,
m~atter-of-fact estimate Of the expenses
of the Public Schools presented by the
Board of Education, alluded to above,
holds up his hands in pretended aston
ishment and cries out as if in the agony
of dissolution
"The statement of money required
for carrying the schools through the
coming eighteen months is absolutely
appalling . -. . and then we have
again presented that mysterious bond,
the principal and interest amounting to
$4,000 or more. The bond was issued
without authority and has been twice
rejected, but the Trustees persist in
making provision for it."
The BLACKBOARD knew he lied when
$1,000 Lo,o o.a ,La,A