The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-04-10
FORTY-THREE.


is an account of q donkey crawling
into the skin of lion. John w.
Cooper, assuming to be the lion of dis
trict forty-three, has reversed this OPP
Grafton and got himself inside the skin
of donkey. He not only sees with
the detective vision, but is heard
(through your columns) to utter the
well known sonorous, harmonious
sounds OF that long-eard quadruped.
Mr.. G. boasts that he is director and
presided at the meeting which gave
the casting vote and declares that the
resolutions were passed. Then he as
serts that they were only offered to
talk about. Now, friend Cooper, you
as director are furnished at the ex-
pense of the public with copy of the
school law. That law you are under
the sanctity of an oath to respect and
obey, and the law is so plain that no
business can be done ut any special
meeting not specified in the call that a
fool need not err therein. If those
resolutions were legally passed, If they
are part of the actual business done
at that meeting, why has not the see.
rotary made them part OF the min
utes? Why does the school board neg
lect and refuse to enforce the instruc-
tions? Now, friend c., with the school
law In your hands, and the love OF
truth and the fear of God in your
heart, tell us are those resolutions a
part of the law of district forty-three
But hired man, a common laborer,
one of the "mud stills" of society, one
who has not laid up immense treasures
on earth, had the impudence to take o
part in trying to sustain one of the
principal branches of a common school
) education. Suppose you, j. NJ. Cooper
had lived eighteen hundred years ago
when Christ was teaching and preach
ing, disputlng with lawyers and doc
tors; you no doubt would have said t.
the Savior, modesty dictates keep still
unless you have property and pay
taxes. DR.. Franklin combating thi
property qualification for the right o
suffrage, the amount being fixed a
five hundred dollars, supposed the MAJ
TO be possessed of a jackass worth tina
amount, then, says the doctor, which
is it that actually votes, the man o
the ass? So We, J. NJ. Cooper, desir
to know, according to your propert!
qualification theory, which was it tina
voted and presided at that school meet
ing, you or tile muley cow On whicl
you ought to pay taxes? This prop
e erty basis for the right OF suffrage
!, the foundation of ignorance, pauper
!, isn and crime, and many are tn
e bushes that proud old Fremont mus
q have for you, friend c., for advocating
d this undemocratic, unphiianthropi
y and unchristian heresy. Boys, you to
!, receive a timely warning, christia
!, admonition. Beware, boys, It is nc
n the paltFy sum of fifty dollars tina
e you and your dead friends have bee
n frequently promised should neye
Z trouble you; no, this is not an &C
h knowledged unjust claim, nor blan
Is assignment to legalize it, but it Is On
y hundred dollars that this school dis
le trict Judge has decided you liable FOL
= This threatened prosecution has sill tn
70 ear marks and brands of one that cam
d under our notice n short time sine
n When an eminent surgeon presente
lie his bill for saving the limb, perhaI
Is the life of q patient he was pounce
h upon with u prosecution for perjur,
II and the prosecutor 80 far succeede
ID that he became the laughing stock /,
lie the court, attorneys and witnesse
The prosecutors great liberailty, aIls