The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-21
MISREPRESENTATION.

direction-that OF Misrepresentation.
1t was not surprising that 10 Lane used
to spell his naD.e with little j., cons1d-
ering the company he kept, but it IS
little surprising to find in Kansas pa
per such an article as We see Ill the
Chief of January 30, under the hea:i of b
Economy and MiscOnstruction.7 The
Chief has ever been ready to complain,
criticise, and denounce, but we have
never seen in it wise suggestion for
the improvement of anything its hatred,
or prejudice encountered. Last fall
that paper lied abous us to its hearts |
personal to us, we never answered any
of its misrepresentation. But in this
article the State Institutions are attack
Cd. They are public property, and
while there may have been mismanage-
ment in some of them, which has been
duly commented upon by this paper, we
cannot pass by, unnoticed, the scurril-
Gus and uncaIled for attack on the in
stitution located at this place, the more
especially as the Chief IS article is wholly |
untrue.
In general TRADE the Chief denounc-
rs Ine CapIIvi DuIIuIng, the EenitunIIary, |
the Agricultural College, the State Uni
yersity and the State Normal School as
swindlers, and urges the. Legislature to
vote down all appropriations for their
support. 1t says its assertion that they
are swindles is made deliberately and
with knowledge of facts.
Here is an extract from its article, re-
lating to the Normal School, to which
institution we shall cOnfine this article,
as we are better acquainted with it than
the otl.r
NORMAL SCHOOL,
: Emporia, having failed on the Agri-'
cultural College and State University,
made a vigorous run for the Normal
School. Eskridge poured out his oio-
qnent pleadln nat the Citizens Would erect
lp,,;.a0Ie building and rent it for a trif1-
;as sum : that everything was cheap
over there and that the concern would
be speedily made a paying institution.
1t was secured and the very first dab,
. they put i'll for an appropriation of
$4,000 to erect suitable building, and
have been putting in something similar
ever since. This winter, they asl- for the
n modest sum of ST 800. If the school is
dcccntly patronized, why does it not
partly pay expenses? and II il docs not,
n why keep so expensive corps of teach
S ers? Perhaps this sum is desired to
: maintain the Educational journal,
;, which is the organ of the institution,
= and hurls its sarcasm and mlsrepresen-
: tation at the Chief, for calling things by
+ their right names. We set this ormal
School business down as clear case OF
obtaining money under false pretences.
h1t
& the Chief is either not acquainted
i with the facts, when it asserts that the
O Normal school is swindic, or else it is
3, a deliberate falsifier.
n The school has had, within the past
t year, 135 students, coming from some
G twenty. counties of the State; about
n thirty have been out as teachers, and the
universal testimony is that they have
4 taught better schools than persons who
. have not received Normal instruction.
This school has only been running three
. years, and its influence upon public ed
ucation is just beginning to be felt. 1t
n has been run with the greatest economy,
n and with just as few teachers as could
: possibly do the work. with salaries
O lower than any Normal teachers receive
@ anywhere, that we know of. 1t is the
= remark of all who have visited the
+ school and witnessed the labor perform
v ed by it's teachers, that they are over
Y worked. Take the friends Ofthe school,
G Observation-Disclosures who know what it
s is doing-and they number thousands
r and not one of them would take back
!. their proportion of the money 1T has
: cost, and abolish the school, nor would
: one of them vote to stop it a single ses-
n sion.
a The Chief ought to know what the
: school is doing before it makes the
|, sweeping charge that it is swlndle.
V There are from one to three Normal
d Schools III all the Eastern States, and
1t they are all supported, we believe, by
:. the respective States.
1t AS to the assertion that Emporia
, would erect suitable building and LET
N it for trifiing rent, we would inform
n the astute editor of the Chief that En-
If poria furnished building for the Nor
10 NAL school free, for over two years
lie until it grew to such proportions that
&C the erection of new building was alb
u SOluteIy necessary. NO Ohe, VIC piO-
e sumo, unless it be such men as the edi-
l. tor of the CHIEF, who evidently thinks
c growth and Improvement swindle on
N the State, expected the people of En-
poria to erect building at cost of fif-
teen or twenty thousand dollars, and do
nate it to the State. The school grew
-, so that it must have the building or linn
= it its usefulness. The putting up of this
r building made the appropriations foT
9 the school come heavier for two or three
re years than they will hereafter. The
q school has only "sown its good seed =
< so far. Next year and every year there
/. after class will graduate and go out in
IN to the State, and thus make the good in
lc fiuence and usefulness of the school felt
p more widely than they arc now. -. -
De The Chief thinks if the school is de-
ic Gently patrOnized it ought to partly pay
a expenses. Perhaps if this critic had ever
ii read the law creating the school he
IN would know that the scholars are to be
at educated free of tuition. He ought to
N post himself before making such whole
E. sale charges.
N The Chiefs insinuation that part of