New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-22

! SoAuoA 10 the times, Tue WIlter pu
forth his ISLANDERS in the form of int
rogatories, to avoid suit for damage
probably. 1t is well known that al
fool can ask a question that the wise
can not answer, though it may not be
bad as that in the present case ; yet he
is one which betrays wonderful stupidit
In the questioner
Why are not the public school teacher
paid y Is it really that there is no money
Our answer is because our benevolen
kind-hearted, hospitable, generous ia,
payers owe $50, 900 to the school funt
which they will not pay. If the Time
finds itself unable to grapple with such
knotty question, it should inquire of il
political friend, Mr.. Schneider, throug
whose hands passes every dollar receive
by the teachers from the city. That abb
and Trustworthy official informs US tina
he has only been able to collect abou
$4,000 for school purposes for 1873
which has been faithfully applied to tn
proper purpose.
As for the charge that any school none,
has been used for political or any othe
improper purpose, it is simply false. ant
we venture to say there is not respon
sible person in the city who will assert it
The proceedings of the school board are
public, and the Times always sends re.
porter there, who generally muddles his
reports, however, SO that they are value
less. What are newspapers for, if not to
detect fraud? Does the Times suppose its
contract with its readers is discharged by
merely admitting an anonymous CORES
pendent to publish charges which it
ought to know are unfounded?
The next mistake this rustic circus
rider makes is in stating that teachers are
compelled to lose forty per cent on their
certificates. Either the statement or the
practice is founded upon ignorance. The
ruling quotations for certificates last week
were: January, ninety-six cents; Feb
ruary, Lightweight cents; October,
cents; November, seventy-fve
cents; December, sixty-two cents. None
Of these show loss of forty per cent.
Police checks are not SO good as teachers
certificates for January, and there is no
'ther class Of employees who depend upon
he city that are paid so well. The
time, as it is called, of city officers, la
'orers, ETC., who have not been paid since
August, can not be sold for seventy cents.
This is in consequence of the fact that the
egislation is in favor of schools. The
act Is, about half of the people have
learly ceased to pay taxes altogether.
sheriff Harper is after some of them, but
us collectors make haste very slowly.
lie is now paying in about $4,000 per week
Or account of the school tax of 1873.
here is in the city treasury now, from
ack taxes, about $4,000. Nothing has
cen received for 1874, and can not be
ntil Governor Kellogg approves the new |
,hool bill.
Wedo not know how Mr. Rogers received |
Is pay sin former tines" and doubt |
neither the TINES rustic rider knows
iUch more about it than be does of mod |
n events, which is little enough, but we |
time when, under Demo-
attic city administration throughout, in
uding mayor, council, school board and
'erybody, the teachers were eight months
lthout their pay, and finally got part
it IN city notes, deprecated bonds and
her trash. The present board pays cash.
D such thing is known as whole year
thout any pay. Money can easily be
rrowed at from one and a half to two
d half per cent per month. If, there
re, this professional ''sympathizer Of
g teachers is Of any financial conse-
ence, let him help as many of them as
knows to loans at the market price.
icy can thus save, if his statements are
rect (Which they are not, of course),
rty-elght per cent on every dollar.
ere is something SO practical and sens ,
e in suggestion of this kind that we :
Te no hope whatever that it will be
opted. f
Now, there is but this summing up and S
,lication to make: Every dollar that t
mes into MIR. Schneider's hands is duly q
orted and paid out for legitimate ex- v
lses OF the public schools. But little
re than one-half of the tax for 1873 has n
n collected, while three-fourths of the i,
enses have been paid. Teachers are d
d better than any other class of city c
oloyes, except perhaps, the police, and o
re is little difference between the two. Fl
IRE is no necessity for losing forty per a
upon certificates, as they are first o.
security, and money san be had at 81
h cheaper rates. And, finally, as bad u
is, there are to-day more than eight a.
dred applicants earnestly imploring 70
directors for situations, showing that Ell
~ teacher finds her position intoler- IL
she can easily vacate it. A thousand pr
atoms could be filled in three days, bs
| though it were true that teachers lose ds
? cents on the dollar. There is but N
remedy for any of the trouble which be
silly complained of, and that is in a U.
3 prompt collection of taxes. as
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SNAKED IN. ba
ewspaper men understand all the de-
5 of the press. Hence when the Plea st
brings in the argument of counsel in co
lie Of the foreinn honaholda aaa,