The Hickman courier., 1869-05-08
Fo- the Hickman Courier.
Che School Fund.
BY W. R. M'pANIEL.


and clap-trap, said and sung, about tn,
education of the poor" than any othe
subject, except the " emancipation Of th'
slave" The celebrated Dr. johnson o
England, once said, that " Politics is th,
last refuge of a scoundrel." Truly h,
ought to have lived in our day and Sc,
what we are doing now.
Some fellow, without credit or eharac
ter, in the country, toelazy to work, toe
much afraid of the penitentiary to steal
with tin cup full of brains in his head
and kettle full of brass in his face
blates away about the education of tn,
poor. To listen to him one would think
that as Kentucky produced Clay, South
Carolina Calhoun, Massachusetts a
Webster, that every boy in the country
would be Clay, Calhoun, or Web
-ssor,' If he was ouIy educated.
Welt every crow thinks its own young
ones the whitest, every owl thinks its
own young owls the prettiest, and every
fellow that listens to our cannidate thinks
his own lousy-headed, ragged tail boy,
(whose nose bids fair to rot his head Off
is the smartest boy he knows on, :"
and straight way votes for our "canni-
date" because he is in favor of taring
the rich to educate the poor. He Is
elected to the Legislature when in ius
tlce 10 an honest community, he ought
to have been put up and sold for
vagraacy. Well, he is elected, a tax is
laid for common school purposes, and
and the father of our smart bow" in
stead of sending him to school, keeps
him at work, while he himself rambles
through the country with a gun on his
shoulder, or lays round a grocery. and
the hard working portion of the com
munity have to pay the tax and educate
their children out of their own pockets
besides.
Our " cannidate" when he gets to the
Legislature-if his brains does not fail
him, for his brass never will-ultimatel |
goes to Congress, and when he gets there |
he meets his " other brother" who got
there by being in favor of the "emanei- |
patton of the slave" Par mobile fratun,.
W hat a noble pair of brothers. Having
no character themselves they combine /
together to drive every honest man out
OF Congress, in order to Rut their hands
in the public treasury With impunity.
They will vote anything for the negro.
nd give land for education, for each
" Gntby must be fed, or it will break
shalt fed horse. They look
s-<smmunity, as Butler
9rleans7-a lemon to be
th their tax mill they
money out of it, as the
trinds the solid rock-to ex-
plden ore.
-eAlt Of all this is that man.
- -sssn~pTo Tor religten, -
gton city, for freedom, religion,
is governed too much,
The Congressional Globe,
costing too much every
1 We are taxed too much
me more taxes people pay
wifhodfa murmur or resistance, the more
they will have to pay, and never mind
how low taxes are the people should muir
muir against it, if they doIbt, the taxes
will be increased. The price of liberty
is eternal vigilance" and this vigilance
should exhibit itself by resisting taxa
ton. We are taxed now until it is as
much as labor can do to procure the
necessaries of life. The physical must
be made comfortable before the mental
can be reached successfully. You can
not make man fear hell who is freezing
to death. 1t is useless to offer a man
that bread which is eternal life, when he
is starving for that bread which is tenn
poral life. A certain high horned"
arose In Parliament once and
said !: Mr.. Speaker: l hope to see the
day when the people of England will be
able to understand Bacon" (Lord Ba-
cons philosophy The reply from an
other member, was as cold as ice, yet
caustic as red hot iron. " Mr. Speaker:
l hope to see the day when the starving
people of England will be able to eat |
bacon" Henry the ", King of France,
better known as Henry of Nevarre,
whose white plume was ever seen in the /
front rank of battle, made the amusing |
remark, " "That he hoped to see the day |
when every Frenchman would have a |
chicken in the pot" There is good |
sound political economy in this funny
observation. He did not wish that his |
people could understand the writings of
some great scholar, but that they would |
have plenty to eat.
School trustees have visited the very
class of people, for whom this tax is
levied, and begged them to send their
children to school. The reply was, "They
have no Shoes" or no clothes, or " l am
bound to hire the boys out to pay for
some meat and bread, and the girls must
stay at home to help their mother" etc.,
aud nine times out of ten they never
send them at all. Yet the Sheriffs col
lects the tax you bet-and what becomes
Of the money? There is plum in this
school basket for some body There is
plum in the !" State debt basket, or
the State would sell her stock and pay
the debt off. Somebody is getting we'll
paid to do nothing. The Clinque
Ports" is celebrated sinecure Office in
England. There are plenty of Clinque
Ports outside of England.
The writer has been a casual OBJ
server of the operations of the school
fund for nearly twenty five years, and
if it ever yet learned child to read
he does not know it. 1t certainly never
learned Andrew johnson, for his wife
learned him while he was sitting on
the tailor's bench, therefore the school
fund is not responsible for the public
life of Andrew johnson, and that is
the best thing that can be said of it.
Henry Clay learned more in the Han