The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-03

who have no direct interest in the mat
ter, but who are opposed to our city
running opposition to any class of our
business people. 1t appears to me that
our City Fathers are getting demented,
or are so anxious 10 tax the people by
chimerical schemes that they are rum
ming wild. If they don't pull up pref
ty soon they will find that the tax
payers will, in their collective capacity,
pass an ordinance lariating them out to
pasture. / would advise them TO make
haste slowly, and, before they submit
any other proposition to raise money,
demonstrate to a certainty that what
they ask for will accomplish the pur-
pose for which it is intended. The peo-
pie will always vote, if within their
means, for any needed improvement,
but are unwilling to go it blind. / have
no doubt ofthe honesty ofthe intentions
of our city rulers, and that they desire
sincerely to advance the interests of the
city, but like all new beginners in bust
ness, are apt TO overdo matters. A lit
tie lightning of the check-rein by their
drivers, the people, will prevent them
from getting ring-boned, spawned or
foundered. So mote it be.
JUSTICE
If there are no better reasons against
houses for the use of Normal students
than are contained in the above COM
munication, all we have to say is, VOTE
THE BONDS. We have our doubts
whether any of our boarding house
keepers ever saw the above remon-
STRANGE. If they did they certainly en-
terrain very erroneous impressions in
regard to the object of the proposition
to vote bonds. We think "Justice"
merely "trumped up" that part of the
above which purports to come from
Boarding House Keepers" for effect.
If the bonds are carried we venture
that not a boarding house in town will
lose asingle customer.
Let us see briefly what the PROPOSE
ton to vote bonds is, and the necessity
for them: A few years ago an attempt
was made to build boarding house for
the use of students of the State Normal
School by joint stock company. This
attempt failed because the company
undertook to build too large a house.
After getting it enclosed it was traded
for q smaller house. Meantime the
shares had been bought up, and the
house which came into the possession
of the company, shortly afterwards be-
come the property of the individual
who had bought the shares. He has
closed it as a boarding house, and it is
now absolutely necessary to provide
other houses for students to board in or
cripple the usefulness of the school.
The class of people who desire to at
tend this school are generally poor
young men and women who are strug-
Cling to qualify themselves for the no
BILE and useful profession of teaching in
the common schools of Kansas. Most
of them cannot pay the ordinary prices
for board. To require them to do so
would at once rule them out of the ia
stitution. Put up boarding houses, as
is proposed by the proposition before
the people of the city, and you furnish
them the means to board themselves at
half the usual charges for board. Many
parents would furnish provisions and
bedding for their sons and daughters
and send them to the Normal who can
not pay their board in cash. This prop
ositiOn simply proposes to place at their
disposal the means to get cheap board
ing and an education. That's all. There
is no telling how soon the school may
be taken from us and located at some
point which will furnish these facilities
if we do not. So then it becomes a
question as to whether it will pay to
keep the school or not. About this
people must be their own Judges.
Heretofore we have not been noted for
Throwing a good thing over our
shoulders" This school disburses in
our community about $4,000 year.
In the past five years $4,000 have been
spent here on account of the school.
When we look little into the future
and see what this school is to become
the money it will disburse here-the
fine buildings, and students By the hun
dreds. When we look back and see
what it has done for us in the way OF
drawing here the very best class of i'm
igrants, and in furnishing us the best
State institution within the borders OF
Kansas-we apprehend our people are
not going to refuse to give it the prop.
er and needed encouragement to make
it still better and more useful. We owe
it to the great cause of education we
owe it to the State which has invested
$4,000 or over in this school; we owe
it to the institution which has done SO
much to bring us good people and give
us fair name abroad; we owe it 10
our own enterprise and intelligence
we owe it to the rising young army Of
Kansas school teachers, to give our hear.
ty and unanimous support to this prop.
osition to vote six thousand dollars fol-
the building of these boarding houses
and we hope such frivilous argument:
as those presented in the above commu.
nication will deter none of our citizens
from doing their duty. If Justice
can suggest anything better or cheaper
let him do so, but he should not try tG
prejudice the people against so benefi-
cial proposition unless he has reason
for il.
''KANSAS OVERCROWDED."
''To the West, to the West. to the land of the
free,'' sings Mr.. Charles Mackey, and Mr.