Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-10-23
FROM JOHN ". DANIELS SPEECH.
The Republican party the Enemy Of Educa-
ton.

Holy writ tells us we are to Judge a
tree by its fruits. Certainly we are not
to judge man solely by his profession,
for a Tallyrand has said that words are
made to conceal our thoughts; and the
devil himself sometimes quotes scrip
ture.
The loud prehnces of, the Southern
Republicans that they were in favor OF
education remind me of Talleyrand's
expression-for their Thoughts were
directed to three objects: FRS, the
creation of many Offices for their parti-
sans to fill, second, the creation oflarge
public funds which they might mani
pulate and steal; and, third, the cree
ton of a machinery through which
Radical notions might be propagated.
If they were friends of education
they have had opportunities to prove
it, and the result has shown that where
ever they have ruled education has
been neglected, and corruption alone
has flourished. In recent report to
the trustrees Of the Peabody Fund, DR.
Sears. its manager and Northern
Republican be it remembered = makes
some disclosures very damaging to
the so called .'friends Of education"
1t is reported therein that at it's last
session the South Carolina Legislature
appropriated over 100000 for educa
tional purposes, and this significant sen
tence tells the rest of the story "Not
ore dollar Of THIS amount has been re
ceived from the treasury, and the re
suit has been that nearly all the public
| schools haze been closed"
4! May not education there exclaim:
Lord, save me from my friends J"
From arkansas it is reported that
during the last year the State was de
trauded Of the whole school fund by
means Of an act of the Legislature
which authorized collectors to take
State bonds in payment of taxes They
| shrewdly collected the taxes in money,
substituted deprecated bonds in theil
stead, paid not one dollar to the credit
Of the school fund, and at one time
meeess'tated the closing Of the public
schools throughout the Suite! But the
collectors got rich and style themselves
the friends OF education.
From Georgia comes the pithy state
ment that "there aoere no public schools
a" operation at,ader the general school
laps Of the State IN the gear 1872
the reason being the unlawful diver
sion of the whole school fund, and the
creation of debt of near three hundred
thousand dollars by the Radical man
ayers of education.
From alabama there comes cry Of
| woe in such sentences as these from
the State superintendent: 81 am inform
ed that large amounts of warrants re
main in the hands of county superi n
tendents unpaid sit has been impos ST
bic for county superintendent to bal
ance accounts with this office" ''1'he
failure of the treasury to cash school
warrants had depressing effect upon
all the township schools"
Unpaid warrants, unbalanced &C
counts, depression, discomfort this is
the picture.
Ofthe condition ofthe public schools
in Texas, DR.. Sears gives most dis
ceuraging view. To call of the State
superintendent for portion of the
Peabody fund, he sends this brief but
pregnant reply: SIN the present unset
tied state of school matters IN Texas
re should not be justified IN making
donations from our ,tund" Matters
must be desperate there, indeed, when
Northern school-manager cannot en-.
trust dollar into the hands OF his car
pet-bag countrymen.
THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY THE FRIEN1
! OF EDUCATION.
In 1869 the Conservative party Of
Virginia was ushered into power. And
through its agency the school system
intended by its Radical supporters te
be used as in the Southern States fol
political and money making purposes
sprung into being like its patron god
dess full armed from the head of Jove
Noble and durable as are the testimo
mails which arise on every hand to beal
witness to the wisdom, honesty and
public spirit of Conservative rule, the
successful erection and operation of
this comprehensive system stands pre-
eminent amongst them. Within the
short space Of four years it has been
developed to such all extent that there
are now 1865 schools at work-2,7Ss
being white and 907 colored schools
and l66,377. scholars are taugbt-119
GAL white and 46, 1876 colored. Thirty
four hundred and ninety three teachers
are employed and amongst them are
$50 Of the colored race, a fact which
shows how that race is being encourag.
ed in good works and how literally it
is dealt with.
Now let US contrast Conservative
Virginia with Radical Mississippi, which
was reconstructed the very same year.
Amount appropriated to public edu-
cation, Mississippi, $1,l36,9s7; Virgin.
ia, 1898, 318. Amount paid teachers
and actually used for schools purposes:
Virginia; $9O4,4S7; Mississippi, $54s,
536. Amount paid contingent expeu-
ses: Mississippi, $5ss,45l; Virginia.
$685.
In other words; the tax payers Of
Mississippi pay to the school fund
Sl43,669 more than the taxpayers Of
Virginia, and the schools get $355,s9l
less. In other words, it does not cos,
in Virginia ten per cent of the whole
amount to collect and apply the school
fund. in Mississippi the Office holders
take more than halt-the lions share =
and then, with this record before their
pol..o1 IL