Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-23
MORE TROUBLE FOR MERRILL

The Ieet BooA Las Not Oniy Outrageous,
but Unconstitutional.
To the Editor Of The GLOBE.
If Donnelly, the Dispatch and the Devil,
! the three great upholders Of the infamous
scheme by which this State is to be swindled
out of their school fund, think they have
everything so nicely arranged to carry out
their nefarious plan, they are very much
mistaken.
The constitution wisely provides for the
establishment of school system, at the same
time providing for fund to maintain that
system, and that said fund shall be dis
tributed to the different townships according
to the number of scholars in each, and be
| used solely to maintain schools.
| Under the constitution the school fund
cannot be paid out by any county treasurer
| in payment of any claim whatever but must
be distributed to the school districts of the
different townships, and any county treas
urer failing at the proper time to pay over
to any district treasurer any moneys collected
for or appropriated to his district, would be
liable with his bondsmen for any such fail
ure.
The Legislature has no more right under
the constitution to loan out tho current
school fund, or interfere with it's proper dis
tribution, than it has to give away the per-
manent school fund. If the people of the
State tamely submit to the one, they may
soon look for the accomplishment of the
other. Cheap text books, though question
of great importance to the people of the
State, sinks into nothingness, when
we look at the stupendous
crime contemplated by the soulless
advocates of scheme to rob our children of
the inestimable boon of free education. Al
low the right to touch one cent of our school
fund for any purpose but that for which it
was raised, and you allow the right to take
the whole.
If you allow the State the privilege of
loaning out funds raised for specific pur-
pose to carry on a private business enter
prise, what is to prevent counties, towns and
school districts doing the same thing; some
might say they are bound by law to do right
Then are our Legislature and State officers
constitution as we'll as we are? On
what kind Of food do our legis-
lators feed that they are Sc
high and mighty, and can defy all law and
Justice, and rob US with impunity.
With high hand and outstretched arm
they exclaim in their lordly accents, "down
ye base tillers of the soil.'' follow the pillow
ye ignorant dwellers of the rural districts
you we can rob and fleece to our hearts con-
tent, and you cannot help yourselves Poor
defenceless and scattered, without money OF
leader. we can grind you to the earth by
piecemeal. When VIC have done with you, and
have you all in due subsection, we will then
turn our attention to st. Paul, Minneapolis
and other towns who now refuse to yield to
our power. They laughed you to scorn in
your time of need, when we were forcing
you down to bind the chains on you. Some
even helped to bind them tighter. When
their day comes you can in your own misery
rejoice in the addition to your company. All
this and more too, will come to pass unless
a united effort is made to stop the mad career
of fraud and unconstitutional legislation
The first and last of the three names al
the beginning of this article are the prime
movers in this great iniquity. The other il
merely sandwiched in because he manifests
prediction for the companyof the others
and no doubt he will feel duly honoree
thereby. GRANGER.