The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-04-14
NATIONAL SCHOOL KEEPING.
A Direct Tax of $4,000, 900 Proposed

NhItUNAL DO1UUL hEEflNU,
A Direct Tax of $4,000, 900 Proposed
Persons who cherish a rosy hope that the
taxes are to be reduced should ponder the pro-
positions in Representative Hears bill to "es-
tablish system OF national education" which
has been favorably reported by the Committee
on Education and Labor. In his Fifteenth
Amendment message the other day President
Grant dropped a significant hint for Congress
to take all the means within their consttu-
tional power to promote and encourage popu-
lar education throughout the country" On
the same day that his message reached the Cap
itol the extr aordinary bill that we now proceed
to notice came back from the committee to the
House, coincidence best explained on the sup
position that the President and committee had
conferred, and that Congress had been sounded
on the subject and is expected to pass the
measure. A more olevcrly contriyed scheme
to make thousands of new oiiicehoders, main
tain national taxes, find work for revenue as
SCISSORS and collectors, and strengthen" the
Central Government, has never come under our
eyes. As prop for the Radicals it is the best
thing yet thought of, for it will plant their
peculiar political doctrines in the breasts of the
rising generation along with the FIRST seeds of
reading, writing and arithmetic.
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occasion Of ron,;dorahio nros,,o., d;.rn,o
anon, o,,i,r,r;o, ,,ho ,ont.d =, writ. The
sang, or the nation In nrer,renco 10 maxine II,
laws. did not originate half 40 smart nm idea
Of moulding pstiona, character n, Mr.. poar
has hit upon. monopoly of ballad making
and mongering could do much TO shape the
prejadices Of people, but nothing like what
an army of political pedagogues, with a swi "a
in one hand and the Radical articles of laih in
another, and the whole power Of government
at their backs, could do in that line. The iu-
ventor of this patent for confirming and extern
ding Radicalism indefinitely is the master
craftsman of his party.
After a long. birh.souudiur preamble, apro-
nos of the Fifteenth Amendment. Mr.. Hoar
comes straight TO business. and propose, the
appointment for each State in the Union of
s.superintepd.nt of national schools" at n
yearly salary Of 81, OOO Multiplying 5000 BY
81 (the number of States when they are all in,)
we have Sill, 900 Of annual expenditure to be-
gin with. These superintendents will "boss
the lob" under the immediate direction of the
Commissioner Of Education, who, in turn, re-
ports for general instruction to the Secretary
of the Interior, who finally takes his cue from
the President, making the whole affair COM
pletc administrative machine as much as the
army or the revenue crowd.
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20 ooo v a., 80, ono -
mall ho diviasd he Tho ST. Snaa.tn,andan,
in,o .,toal ai,,.i-,, 80 a.,r.,;,-. -. a. l.,
nor,rnd hr a .,aoai .nnaria,onIaa,a ~ n.,,an,I
.cboo1. - a, e. d,y c,r bo ,;,no ,h., h. !.
octp,IIy omniorod TIT. man. a,tn'ans naon
mi,lions of doli.r, in N. o,,ror,,o br, o,r
want or mira rrcciso dat, ,h,D wo b,vo yro
cannot estimate tho sum ovor nrov;o,,.Ix
wb,, Viii A., .sI,r;a. - ~ ~ -
of the strong Government, the hiring Of an in
definite number of schoolmasters and lnistrcssc,,
the erecting and repairiur of scbool bou,es.
the furnishing of school books for children
unable 10 buy them. and other incidental c,-
penses, Mr.. Hoar is probably within the mark
BY providing for direct tax, to be apportioned
among the several States, of fifty million dol
lars-jus. to start the experiment. for that Is
all that even so large an amount az that will
really do. The more we turn this scheme over
the more are wo lost in enCnrced Admiration IF