Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-13
Don't Defeat the School Build
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The proposition of some men to defeat
the School Building is as unwise policy
as men who have any future interest in
Plymouth can advocate. Let these men
reflect for moment that such building
is not to directly benefit that class of
men .hose families are gone, and who
have made their fortunes for them, nor
that class with whom it is questionable
to have family, but can have a poodle
dog, and prefer fondling it to a sweet
child but that class to whom the public
owe the debt of education.
1t is indeed frivolous excuse for men
to frame, that because they have no cnil-
dren to educate, or their children are
grown that they are under no obligation,
as heagy ta1 pagers to see those of others
educated. They should consult past his
tory, and ask the question, by whose suf-
frage, or toll, are they the men of wealth
to-day?
Il Plymouth is town Of some note, or
ought to be. Her natural advantages are
possibly equal to any equivalent popu-
laton in the entire State Men from abroad,
see, and speak Of these advantages, and
naturally turn to her churches and schools
dren, say they, to educate To move into
a community where morals and science
are not taught, we acW not Money is
nothing to the proper rearing of our fami-
lies. What answer make We? The old
Court House was doubtless looked upon
as relic ofa past age, and in county and
community pride more too soon was the
decision to desert the old dilapidated
shell. What ofthe School Houses. One
on South side is a temporary frame struc-
ture, and that in the centre, or western
part Of the city, cannot be graded above
the old Court Shell.
The complaint Of all successful teachers
has beehive cannot make a success of
the schohl under existing circumstances.
Our new Court House is an honor and
pride to the county. "a thing of beau
ty'' and grandeur where it is hoped jas
tice will be driy dispensed But what is
the need of such a building compared to
the present demand for creditable City
School building, of sufficient capacity to
accommodate some eight grades of stu
dents? 1t is unworthy of being men. ion
ed along side OF the town and county.
But some say this is "a county matter to
construct a court house "and purely a
town matter to construct city school
In one sense it is, in another it is not.
There is not school in Marshall county
worth mentioning as success to-day.
The only one of note that is struggling
for position is denominational, and loca
ted at Bourbon, which we are told is
deeply embarrassed, unable to meet even
! the salaries of their teachers. 'Tis true
the catholics have school in Plymouth,
and there is select school taught by the
Young Ladies' bat the latter is on
footing with the public schools as to
management and building The select
school will have Il building if the public
school does not As 10 the Catholics
school, they propose to run their own
business in their own wav, and to every
intelligent reader with all other schools
of the catholic church are open, and not
secret enemies to the public school sys-
TEN. l submit therefore to the citizens
of Plymouth the question-Is it not
matter of county pride (not county taxa
ton as such) that the county seat should
have creditable school building?
Again. There is no legal or reasonable
necessity why the said city school build
ing should be purely building for Ply
mouth. Why not make it in Centre town
ship as in some other townships in the
state, a Township School Building, and
unite the whole influence of the town
ship in making it success
This does not involve the erection of
the Court Building as post question of
necessity, or present one of cost as many
seem to think. The question is one of
demand
This demand can be met at a cost of
twenty-five thousand dollars, which will
be understood as amounting to thirty, all
Expenses including interest and furnish
ing counted in. We have seen the draft
OF such building and visited and enioy
led great satisfaction in similar ones else
where. Such satisfaction as can only be
found in well conducted school, the
hope and pride of any community where
found
This question has not as yet become a
partisan question, and should not. One
thing however is certain, W., That it
rests on the one hand to meet the accusa-
ton whether just or unjust, "by the pow
ers that be" in Plymouth-.'That the
Democratic party are opposed to the cree
tlnn OF school houses and proper educa-
,, ton OF the youth of the county" We
hope this is not their record and that the
, Republican which has been the means
under God of unshackling three millions
OF freemen and erecting school houses and
schools all over the south for education of
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