Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-21

private schools than good will be ac-
complishsd bY the next ten years Of
free schools. To my own knowledge,
one man, whose seven children ought
to be at school, viii not send to a pri-
waite teacher because he pays school
tax, and there being no white free
school in his district, they are growing
up in ignorance-a case. !. fear, by no
means exceptional. As to the duty of
educating our neighbours children,
based, | suppose, on the so-called
solidarity of society" / mustsay that,
to my thinking, no man has right to
more children than he can educate,
and that all SO endowed should be
given every possible facility to die out
in the social struggle for existence.
The Geneva Arbitration settled in
the negative the question of liabilities
for indirect damages, nevertheless, /
shall consider my subject under that
head. 1t has been repeatedly proven
that the soil and climate Of Tennessee
fit her to produce the finest wool in the
world, yet in that branch of husband
ry she ranks about thirtieth of the
States, and this, not from lack of en-
terprise, but from plethora of dogs. On
our statute books is law taxing these
delectable quadrupeds one dollar a
head, and consecrating said tax to our
Justly celebrated school fund but, un-
fortunately, the law is of the local OPP
ton persuasion. depending for enforce
ment on the organized Incompetence
of the county-alias its Quarterly
Court-therefore, virtually, dead
letter. A case in point. Mr.. A, we
will say, has a farm of five hundred
acres. and three children to whom he
has given the best education that his
means admitted. He would like to
keep hundred sheep to the equal and
manifest benefit of his fields and finan-
ces, but one side of him lives neighbor
B., who owns fifty acres, five children,
and seven dogs; and on the other,
renter c., who is the happy possessor
of seven children, nine dogs and moth
ing else-except a vote-within hail of
whom are Scipio, Sambo, ct id genus
on,ne, whose capacity in the matter of
dogs and Scholastic population" is
simply illimitable, in view of all which
no sleeps life would be worth a days
purchase, sans fold and herder, in de-
fault Of which expensive appliances
poor A. goes muttonless, grubs his sas-
afras and briars the best he can, and
tries to raise, on land already tobacco
sick, enough of the staple to meet
family expenses and pay the school tax,
which is to educate the youthful BIS,
C.'s, and Sambo's, for have not their
progenitors the handsome majority of
three votes to his one, and do not
probable trustee and clerkships, and
possible sherifalties, not to mention
visions of legislative glory, dance
before the magisterial eye, and the
dog-law goes deeper than ever plum
met sounded into oblivion. Fiat
,justitia, ruat c9lum. That's our motto,
certainly.
1t was my good fortune to hear Judge
Tyler's very sensible remarks to the
Teachers Institute Saturday, and with
more than dated breath l suggest to
him that here is the place to make up,
by direct taxation" the school fund
deficiency, which at present threatens
so grievous a complication, Honest
ly, Judge, the matter deserves your at
tention There are at least six thous-
and spare dogs in our county, and the
measure, like the doctors prescription,
warranted to kill or cure" will GER
tainly do good one aoay or the other.
| am told that you are fearless, up
right, and even a trife conscientious,
in the discharge of duty. If you have
the nerve and backbone thus to dem
onstrate your eminent fitness for the
second term to which you aspire, |
promise, on the sacred word OF a mod
erately truthful person, that you shall
be as badly beaten man as ever made
the race for office in our county limits;
for, next to himself, the average SOW
ereign appreciates his dog, an attack
on whom would occasion breach of
confidence" defying even a ware
houseman's power of hand shaking to
repair. n' -Hai
l hold it we'll to stop when you are
seized with the mood admonitory, in
proof of which faith,
| am yours respectfully,
a ls s 81 SIN. A.C.