The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-03


Ask for.
Last Friday the legislature now
in session took q queer econoni-
cal turn aud killed all the Normal
schools. The one located at this
city had been in successful running
order over ten years, and the State
has very near 100000 invested in
buildings and grounds, and the
school il doing, and always has
done better work for the State than
any educational institution in 1t,
and yet it was denied, by the House
of Representatives, of Kansas, in
this Centennial year, the paltry
sum $4,000 for running expenses,
by a vote OF SO to 43. This action
has not only surprised, but panied
every friend of Kansas and her
educational interests.
At this day there is No use to spend
time to show the importance of the
work of the Normal School. No
State can safely be without them.
Every western state is constantly
increasing it's number of Normal
Schools. We have never heard of
the legislatures of Missouri, Iowa,
Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, or
Nebraska moving to kill its Nor
NAL schools, to decrease their num-
Der, or to cripple them. Illinois,
after the great success of its Nor
NAL University, at Bloomington, has
established another and given it .
building which cost $350,OOO. Both
are supported by the State. Michi-
gan, with her great University. has q
Normal school at Ypsilanti. Iowa,
which has had had q Normal de
p1rtment in her University, now
proposes to establish . separate
Normal school. A bill il now
pending before the legislature o.
that State to make an appropriation
for building. Minnesota, no rich
er than Kansas, and with no more
population, sustains three Norma
Schools with buildings which cos
more than ours. And yet Kansas
with all her boosted enterprise
with all her professed friendship
for The Common Schools, with he
boasted intelligence, proposes Il
kill her Normal schools. The ideI
is so foreign to anything any Kan
sss BODY ever did, that we would
not believe it, were the dark record
not before us. Here is the vote q
it appears in the Topeka Common
wealth, on the question to indeG-
nitsly postpone the bill making t.
the State School an appropriation
of SI3, G67.6O, for the necessary run
ming expenses of the school. Mari
| the names well:
= Ayes-Aldrich, Baer, Bates, Bid
3 die, Bissell, Campbell, of Doniphau
Campbell of johnson, Cochran
Conrad, Critchfield, Davis of Bour
bon, Dennis, Dickson of Woodsor
:, Driscoll, Duncan of Leavenwortk
!. Dunnuck, Farwell, Fem, Fros
: Gest, Click, Green, Half, HaldeI
man, HallOwell, Howell, johnson
. Kellogg, Marvin, Nichols of Mans
q Nichols of Cloud, Page, Revill'
T" Reynolds, Rogers, Saxon, Silver
: Smith, Snead, Stewart of Bourb OF
Stewart of Montgomery, Sitting
Stone, Taylor Of LeaVenwortl
e Toothacker, Waters, Warnin,
n Webb, West, Williams, Wilson
If Wood,-53.
= Nays-Arnold. Baldwin, Ballair
/. Benton, Berry, Bonebrake, Brun
:, baugh Burdick, Campbell OF Mar
ID on, Charles, Clark, Cook, Davis {
Brown, Davis of Miami, Dixon ,
Is Russell, Elder, Eskridge, Foste
IL FurgusOn, Hastings, Hoyt, HUI
:, bard, Kelly, Kirk, Little, 10y, MI
IL gill, Melville, Morse, Moser. PERIL
Pierce, Rager, Randall, Richardso
Root, Stall, Stevens, Taylor of r
no, Tomlinson, White, Wright, NJ
SPEAKER,-43.
10 All the three schools asked fl
= was $3l, 900 in round numbers, 81
l. in consequence of the unaccSun
IT able opposition of the members
10 the House between six and sew
+ hundred young men and wome
l. who are too poor to fit themselv
s. for the noble position Of teachin
u are turned out in the cold to do Il
2 best they can. They have thus sa
81 the Common schools of the Sta
q are of too little importance to
l. fostered and cared for. While tn,
E. have thus struck blow ct the pc
y pies schools they have willing
NJ given the Manhattan college, viii
o. has an endowmint from which
p pay its running expenses, and viii
l. is engaged in learning people p
n vate trades, such as printing, tel
IN graphing, millinery, etc., an apr
&c priation for new buildings, e
;. They also propose to strengthen {
as State University, an institute
70 which can only be reached by the
X who have the money to spend, .
ne which the poorer teachers of I
sn Southern two-thirds OF the Sta
of can not reach. We do not speak
these institutions thus because
re. are opposed to them, or because
would not vote money to keep TIT
A. up, but to draw the contrast a.
which are the more useful to
n. State,and to show the inconsisten
of on the part of members of the Il
a, islature, and to express the opini
~ that this whole matter locks jul
~ little like . put mp job on the p
a. of the KaW VAlly, to stop evrythl
-. outside of it. II we are right
- are surprised at some men who
helping the combination alO
:" The fact that the Kansas Pacific
away with the cattle business, q
that the Emporia Normal Schoo