The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-17
Quar- Educational Hnteresas.--T
STATE IInfverNi1Y.

| EDITORS CLARION -
/ To the taxpayers of Mississippi, We pro-
pound question Would you, or any one
of you sign paper to-day, subscribing
dime towards making up $I2500 to pay the
tuition of go students, and $11,6OO being
S100 piece, for the purchase in the market
of 1l6 students to go to the State UNIVERSE
! tys Wa ask, is there man in Mississippi
| who will do it?
| You are made to do that very thing now,
and if they can buy up enough to make 500
which they hope to do, the gross amount
will increase to double the above figures of
So. 500 for tuition alone.
The State has shown her munificence by
| apprepriating-perha million of dol
lars 10 nit out the institution-she pays $780,
600 per annum towards paying the Profess
| sors-19 or 20 in number. In all conscience
is not that enough in our distressed and i'm
poverished condition:
Our people, tax ridden as they are, have
not complained at this, but our matters are
not satisfied. They seem determined to get
the last dime and they will keep on until
''the laststraw viii break the camel's back p
What do our faculty say on the subject?
Never hear word of remonstrance from
them against it, On the contrary they pub
lish, under the authority of the Board we
may presume, the most extraordinary
amount of gascOnade, about the amount of
money appropriated towards University
education, to induce more pupils to avail
themselves of these gifts, and at the expense
of the taX-payer.
We venture an assertion right here. If
H.
Treasurer's Office, member of the legisla-
ture, were to address the Chancellor and
Faculty to know whether "the machine
could not be rum with less money, in order
to curtail the extrava2ant expenditures,
they would answer, no. "More money"
The NAV is large. Let the people sweat
let them groan. We must make something
out of this-and we must have @pupils-no
matter what if costs-nO matter who it
grinds. We of the Radiea. persuasion in
the faculty, went in for this. We, of the
pure rebel cast, can't object. We of the
hybrid species, "pray, good Lord-good
Devil". We don't know INTO whose hands
we may fall-we have not courage to resist
it. We had better take all we can get while
it is going! We can lay il all on the Radi-
ever get rid OF them, we can turn rebel, like
the chameleon changes its hue. We can
''out Herod, Herod,'' and when the plum
derers pack up their c. BIS 20 leave we can
give them many kicks as the down-trod
den Taxpayers. We will be sleek and fat
and can out run them. We can boast, what
time we had with them-how we drew
the '.hoOd-wink' over their eyes-how we
palavered them--how "we come it over
them,' and saved the Institution!
sour names will go down to pOsterity as
christian philanthrOpists and patriot edu
Gators"
This is the strain in which they would
doubtless indulge. If honorable Professors
can ensconce themselves in some secret
retreat and indulge in practice of espion-
age-watch their colleagues, and their SUI
periors too-in their ingoings and outcom-
ings-how long they have stayed with their
classes-mark them and report them to the
absent trustees when they make their an
nual visitations-and all this without notice
to the unsuspecting victims or Faculty, can
they complain If there is
"a chiel among ye-taking notes,
And faith he'll prent EN- 20
As we write, the subject looms up before
US. 1t assumes vast magnitude. There is
so much of it that justice cannot be done
to it in small space.
Occasionally they succeed through art and
finesse in procuring puff from some of our
true and faithful editors. We believe it
grinds some of them to do it, but they can't
well help it.
FFlI.- IL.
has its spies posted throughout the State.
This hint is sufficient.
Has ever the press of any country been
more liberal and generous in support of
their educational Institutions than the
Mississippi press has to theirs?
A TAX PAYER.