The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-02-06
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, |
COLUMBUS, ONO, Jan. Is, 1878.
I hereby certify that the foregoing
eneral law is correctly copied from the
riginal roll on file in this Office.
A T. WIKOFF,
Secretary of State
From I. T.
To the Editor of the Standard :

To the Editor of the Standard:
Your readers will recollect an article in
your paper in reference to our late Teach
ers' Institute. Two other articles have
since appeared. And in your last issue,
Mr. Yarnell undertakes to justify the ac-
tion of the committee in dividing out the
funds in the Treasury among certain in
dividuals connected with the Institute.
The Chairman, Mr.. Yarnell, seems to
think it contemplate effrontery for a
member Of the Institute to inquire into
the expenditures, or call in question the
action of a committee of which he is a
member.
am inclined to think when the facts
in the premises are investigated that this
high-handed outrage against the rights OF
the teachers, will not be so easily eX-
planned away by pretended superior quail
Nifications of skilled labor in professional
eervices.
What are the facts? A committee con-
Sisting of Messrs. Mackley, Pickrel and
arnell were appointed sometime previ
llbus to the commencement OF the lnStl
Ytute, it was understood at the time ol
the appointment of this committee in
order to save expenses, that lecturers
from abroad would not be procured, but
that the committee should arrange pro
gramme in which all the teachers might
take part.
The object being mutual Improvement
| the prOgra amme was prepared and certain
| duties assigned to different members o
| the Institute.
Notsa word was said about procuring
skilled laborers or hired lecturers. No
a word of report from this committed
came to the notice of that any person
was to be paid for professional services
| in hn
when the committee circulated the peti
ton to obtain the necessary signatures t.
draw money from the Treasury, not
teacher understood that any lecturer wa
to be paid for his services. All under
stood that the money to be drawn was t,
be appropriated in paying the expense
of the Institute for stationery fuel AM
lights. Not word was mentioned to
single 1lovice in the Institute concernin
the division of funds in the Treasury
Nov | submit to an honest community
if this secret planning and want of conf
dence in the Institute in failing or refus
ing to make the facts known, is not su!
picious of evil intentions? Does it no
look like there was fraud and treacher
at the bottom of the transaction? ? Some
thing rotten in Denmark When me
are actuated by principles of right an
honor, do they act in this secret manner
Of fathef is II not common when me
know that their acts are wrong to kee
those concerned in ignorance until the
have accomplished their objects and the
like this committee, defiantly publis
their acts as though it was done by al
thority?
1t seems to me that Mr.. Yarnell, I'll
principal actor in the premises, (M
Mackley not being presently and M
Pickrel supposing that it was by the CO.
sent of the Institute, had no more leg
right to appropriate the money in tt
Treasury, to pay lecturers without IL
$ consent of the Institute than any 9th