, 1875-08-03

TRIBUNE Inns done injustice To Gov. GARLAND
and lis supporters by stating TINT they
/ closed the public schools Of Arka,,sas u1,oll
coming into power. This stateu,cnt, II do
clares, has kept Thousands Of emigrnnts
away. If 60, it haa done the bost possible
thing to open the eyes OF tho politicians of
that State 10 tho utter folly OF their course.
Tho Ga=ttto tsies-and tries in thorough.
" courteous wny-to show that tho RESPONSE
bility for tho closing of tic schools rests
upon tue CLAYTON and other Republican Ad-
1nfnistrAtions. It argues that tho lack Of tho
necessary money was duo ~ to decision
Of tho Supreme Court which 1nado stnte
scrip worth 20 cents On tho dollar, receiv-
able nt par for school taxes, and (2) the fol-
lowing law Of tho Republican Legislature Of
1871:
Tho Auditor Of tho tato IL hereby denied authority
TO draw any warrant tho Treasurer to 10 paid ous
Of tho goncra revcnus Of tho State for tho support Of
lilo common schools, and my act patt Of act ap-
proprtsng cut Of tho general reyttauo Of 4he Stats
for the support Of common schools IL loreby fe-
pea1ed,
This left only poll-ta1 Of 81 to supply
tho school fund. "The 1noat AouriglinR
schools suspended six months boforo Gov,
GARLAND went into Office; tho rcat suspended
six months afterwards.
This In the GARLAND side Of tho question,
and may be quite convincing, but not
boaring upon the real issue now. Tint
issuo Is, Shall tho schools Of Ar
kansas 10 closed or opened at once?
There is unfortunately no doubt that tho re-
sponsibility for keeping them shut rests uron
tho GARLAND Administration and tho Demo-
cratic party Of that State. Are thcro any
laws in tho way? Then rerenl them. The
Democracy controls tho Legislature, Are the
school-taxes insufficient to support tho
schools? Then increase them. Hcre il a
party which has absolute control of Arkan-
aas, and which Keeps the schools of Arkansas
Shut. There is no chance of oxc,1so. Tho
system which starvcs children's minds
which deliberately let's n generation grow up
in blank ignorance, which mikes tho man
who lolds tho plow nbout equally as
stupid as tho mlle which druwa it,
which leaves school buildings to rot
into decay, which encourages crimo
mud incapacity by refusing to app1y tho pro-
vontivo of knowledge this system is relic
Of tho dirk days Of tho South. Tho party
TINT clings 10 1t ia condemned by 1t. IA long
as thiA syetom in in force, omigrants ought to
stny away from Arkansas. A father would do
hia children au almost unparlouable wrong
by taking them where schools do not exist,
whom ho can find home in stntes that arc
hungry for labor aud that maintain fouriyll-
ing public schools for Tho children of labor,
Tho Gazette errs in blauiug THE TRIBUNE
for giving currency to the fact That the
schools of Arkansas were closed, and so keep
ing away thousands Of emgrants." II our
atAtoment had that effect wo deserve tho thanks
Of every one Of these omigrants and Of
Arkansas. For the former have bocn saved
from inaicting great wrong upon their chill
drcn, md tic latter has been tanght-pro-
videa 6ho ia not beyond toach1ng-that her
present courao is suicide. Wo did not Soy
the schools were shut until they woro shut,
md then said so with groat regret. Whom
tho schools aro reopenod, We will chronicle
that fact MS conspicuously and as cotnplatot !,
as VIC did tho former, and with muoh y ~
satisfaction.
II tho people Of Little Rock, In pey' t,cr,.,
feel badly about our publication o. the foct
that their schools AFRO closed. thr, romoiv IL
very simple. Tho cost Of curry. .uo on tha;r
city system, according to u aurea ~ =
pamphlet just published b = their Board Of
Education, is S27,2a4 year, Wrhv don't
thoy subscribe this comnsrative1v sna,1
amount aud reopen tn, schools
THE hsnnENEYT.