The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-06-16
The School Question.

MIR. EDITOR: ltappears to be impossible to set.
lie the public school question in a manner which
will be satisfactory to all, therefore the time hon
ored maxim OF the greatest good TO thegreatest
number, Will approximate nearer to the nten.
ton and spirit of the school law than any other
means which can be adopted. Public education
is intended for the benefit of the whole COM
munity, and its advantages and blessings should
be distributed like the dew of Heaven, upon all
alike, ana not upon privileged few TO the de-
trlment and at the expense of many; partjcu.
larry at time when they are burdcncd with
DEBT. allude to the establishment and c0ntin.
uatlon of the High School in Bel Air, while all
the primaries are suspended for the want of
funds, large portion of which is being absorb
ed by the above school. suppose this will be
answered by referring to the article which ap
peared in the Hartford Democrat Il few weeks
ago, which advanced the idea that the Bel Air
district was entitled TO receive back all the taxes
collected within her borders. The application
was made to the school tax, but the argument
Is equally applicable to all other taxes. five
analyze this theory and reduce it TO practical
test does it not as n natural result return TO
every man the exact amount of taxes he has
paid. And If a man happens TO he fortunate
enough TO live in that highly favored district
ana only pays small amount of taxes and has
a large number Of children, according to this
theory only part of them can go to
school. Again, the man who pays no lakes,
(undcr the operation of this new Democratic
uoclfine) Is not entitled TO any benefits what
ever; yet the law compcs him to take up arms
and defend your property in case of invasion.
No doubt the argument advanced by the Har-
Jord DemocrM would be very popular with the
Chinese rs they appear TO be in favor of isola-
ton to such an extent that they wall their dis.
trict in. But MS | am not n Chinese Democrat.
itcomes in conflict with those fundamental prin
ciples which hive been taught to believe are
the foundation stones of the Democratic party
equal rights to all; and when the School Com.
missioners practically adop. this principle the
people will be satisfied not until then There
Is Il section of county in this county containing
twenty or thirty square miles, (perhaps more,j
without aschool or a school house. allude to
that portion of the county embraced between
the Gunpowdcr and Bush rivers, and the Phila.
delphia Railroad and Chesapeake Bay. Are
they TO be kept in state of barbarsm, because
they happen to live outside of n more favored
district?
In regard to the action or rather nonacton of
the County Commissioners in relation to reliev-
ing the School Board off debt, | think they have
displayed consummate judgment in the exercise
of that discretion conferred upon them by the
Legislature in Withholding their assent to fund
the debt of the School Board until they get as.
surance of its management in the future, with
equal benefits to all parts of the county; and
the people will sustain them, notwithstanding
the admoniti0n of the Hartford Democrat that
the people will be prepared TO meet it, Those
kind of admonitions frequently operate in n
manner similar TO that singular instrument
made use of by the natives of Australia, the
Boomerang. 1t very frequently reeoils and
strikes the protector. IvURos.