The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-01-06


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ny imposing the very light duties. Of these
Offices on Other. State officers, or OH com
patent citizens without salaries.
The trustees Of the Insane, Deaf and
Dumb and Blind Asylums should be pro
hibited from using any Of the funds APP
proprated to these Institutions, IN the
way Of salaries or fees to themselves.
The appropriations to the State Uni
versitics are beyond the means Of the
State to pay, and beyond the necessities
of these Institutions.
The salaries and mileage paid to the
Trustees of these Institutions ought to be
prohibited The duties of these officers
are extremely light and highly honorable;
like services of all other institutions of
learning in the State, and throughout
the Union, are rendered blythe bestcitizens
without compensation.
Again the expenditure of the States
money-poor as the people are-and Ia
boring under the most crushing taxation
for the board and support of certain
students, is wrong. The State is under
no obligation to furnish these favored few
with what is denied to the children of the
State at large. The State supposes. she
discharges her duty to the great mass of
her children, when she furnishes schools
free of tuition for four months in the year.
These schools are for the people at large;
the colleges and universities are for the
more fortunate few. Not more than one
4 .o~+ i
! countries, ever 90 to college It is wrong
that nine hundred and hinety-nine should
be burdened with taxation so crushing
that they are deprived, in many instances,
Of the means of-even- going toa common
school-in order that one fortunate person
shall have extraordinary benefits denied
to the others. We therefore ask that the
scholarships in the two Universities be
| abolished. These remarks apply, also,
tosfhe Normal schools.
/ Whilst we cordially endorse the wis
dom of that policy which extends to the
children Of the State the advantages of
a free common school education, we re-
spectfully submit that our present legis-
lation in that respect is radically defec-
tive in theory, and in its practical workings
! is great wrong rather than Of benefit to
her citizens. The present rate of taxa
ton for purposes of education and the
appropriations made for that purpose
amounts to the enormous sum of 1878
900 annual greatly more than is ne
cessary for carrying on the State gov
eminent. We suggest that the mistake
in this matter has been this. The at
| tempt has been made on an impoverished
State, with all its industrial pursuits in a
deranged and constantly changing condi-
ton, and all of its property values great
ly deprecated, to suddenly inaugurate a
complete system of common schools fully
adequate to the wants of the whole peo-
pie Of the State, and to extend this even
to a collegiate education. Whilst this
would be we'll enough perhaps in a great,
prosperous and wealthy commonwealth
! vet the attempt in Our State in its present
condition has been productive of such an
| enormous taxation as to bring ruin to the
doors Of the parent in the attempt to cd
ucate the child, and to produce In the
public mind a growing and annually in
creasing hostility to the policy of free
education itself We therefore respect
/ fully suggest a thorough change of the
I law in this respect that the present tax for
educational purposes he greatly reduced
that reeeducation be restricted sim
ply to elementary grammar schools, that
the pay of County Superintendent be
reduced as herein recommended.-a
that the effort be directed to the gradual
and economical building up of a common
school system which shall not by its.en-
ormous exactions excite tie 4hostflity OF
the citizen, but will rather attract to it.
self his support affection.
The Commissioner of immigration is
an unnecessary office. His duties are
nothing: his services of no value. We
suggest that his salary might be abol-
ished, or made merely nominal, and all
appropriations subject to his control be
repealed. .....
The salaries of County Superintend-
ents of Education might be saved by
uniting that Office having such light du-
ties, with that of Sheriff, with an extra
compensation of $50 90 per annum, rex
cept when the services Of a conn etent cit
| izen can be cot for that sum.
The salaries of teachers in the common
schools are far greater than is necessary
to secure the services of the persons en-
ployed. For second class s,hools $50 0C
per month would be ample, and for first
class $50 90.
On +biC cubioof ua c1,oract thot q CON.