The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-02-26

shall feel greatly obliged, and cheerfl,ly re-
ward any one who will bring them to thi,
Office THEO. SCHOCH, Publisher
a@r UNDER the head of The Schoo
Question" a correspondent in yesterday.
Democrat, undertakes to set the matter Of
the selling the Acadamy property and the
borrowing of SIS, 900 for the purpose Of
erecting new school house, in pale light
before the people. With educate your
children {" account Of the school debt, or who
contracted it We do not design to cavil.
Others who have examined into the matter,
however, do not hesitate to say that his as
sertions do not amount to facts in the case,
and comparison Of the books Of the Board
OF Directors and the amount Of the duplica es
collected with the actual expenses Of tie
schools would rather lead to this view, and
TO the conclusion that it would require nice
little sum beyond the 5000 to cover the
actual debt contracted each year since 1871.
With the balance Of educate your chill
c;rcu's" article We fccl more inclined to take
issue. 1t VII not do to say that in what was
said relative to the selling ard borrowing
''the D,ard las lccn entirely misrcpre-
sen,ed," in y.,ow OF the fact chat notice of
iutenlcd application for power to sell and
power 20 boron foT school and building pur-
poses has appeared under the signatures OF
the President Of the Board of School Direc-
tnrs, in Eotl the county papers, for the last
fur Wec..s and ii view OF that other fact,
that there was hidden behind the curtin, a
provision Of law authorizing the sale of the
outside school buildings for the same pur-
lose and in view of that still other fact that a
building tax Of eight mills or the dollar has
leen laid, and partially collected at least, for
two years. Notwithstanding the assertion
OF educate your children that the Board
never intended to burden the borough with
a debt Of from $4,000 to s25, 900 for the
purpose of erecting fancy school house, it
il plainly patent that they did intend to do
that or something worse Else why want to
scll or borrow at all?
Educate your children SAYS, the Board
proposed TO have an act passed TO give it
the right TO borrow sl5, 600" IF it could
succeed in this then it intended to take
into consideration what ought to be done :"
This is the ycricst bosh iumacinab!e, and
uniy employed because better excuse could
not, on the spur of the moment. be invented
Ia meet the stern condemnation Of outraged
tax payers. who We're 70 have been run into
almost hopeless debt without a why or
wherefore. IF the Board had no plan for a
e hooi house why move in that direction
without consultation with the tag x-payers,
sni before plan was naturcd? And if
The Board would be very glad if it could
give It's scholars the requisite accommoda-
tons" 81, Why not examine the old
ta...i.ng with 4 view to repairs and enlarge
ra"nt If necessary before talking about sell
los out the old and borrowing sl5, 900 with
which to build new The fact is educate
yor- children 5 explanations are a fudge,
and so silly as to lie unworthy of a cores
ponlent even Of the Monroe Democrat.
But educate your children" has an axe
t. grind; and this scLoo. lu:id;ng defence is
but the stone upon which he Intends to wet
Up the implement. ''Our little Ex-Judgc"
a. he calls him has had share in 1narring
his darling project, ana he must have a
punch for his telnerity The little Ex-
Judge" did have a finger in the spoiling OF
that hash, and he is willing to confess tha.
-hc thought Of it does him proud" He
never laid straw in the way of the educa-
tional interests of this community, but has
always felt happy when it was in his power
70 advance them. But he did not feel that
the unnecessary selling of property and the
unnecessary increasing of our public debt
was the best means of advancing those
interests and hence he opposed them. 1t
was certainly his right to do so and he enter
tains no regret over his action.
That the little Ex-Jadge" possibly failed
10 secure for some ''of his grown-up chill
dren" the brilliant intellectual light which
iliunIincs the towering brain Of educate
your children, may be his misfortune 1t
certainly was neither his fault nor desire
Bat whether his grown-up children can
write their own names legibly" or set type
from manuscript copy" is not question in
The matter Of selling the Acadamy property
and creating debt of sl5, 900 unnecessarily
That is question outside Of the issue, and
We cannot but feel that It's introduction was
more reflection on the vehicle through
which educate your children forced it
upon the public than on us. We know that
We have no one in our Office who cannot
write his name legbly and the repeated
assertions Of authors are authority for our
saying that manuscripts sent to the Jeffer-
sonian are always put in type correctly 1t
Is the Democrat which has earned an unen-
viabe notoriety for its slaughter Of both the
ideas and the Engl;sh of writer's who have
trusted their carefully prepared articles to