Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-03-20
Wednesday. March 30 1878.
The schools Vetoed The Colleges Appro-
we'd.

The increased appropriations Of S25,-
900 to the Virginia Military Institute
was very promptly approved by Gov
ernor Holiday also that Of $4,000 TO
Blacksburg College. and $1,000 TO the
Richmond Medical College.
Observe here the consistency Of the
Governor, who vetoed the bill which
simply said that the School-fund should
not be paid in coupons, because free
schools are rather a luxury han a
necessity" The appropriation to the
Institute was $4,000 a year until the
last, when it was made .s25, 900. The
public debt increased, 1.-THE public honor
in peril" The free school fund short
1888, 900, II money in the treasury, the
State borrowing Of the banks to pay
governmental expenses, and this school
steps IN for an additional $4,000 from
the public treasury. The same Cover.
nor Holiday whe says we must educate
our sons in sound morality before we
have SYSTEM of public education cor
daily approves the appropriation.
Blacksburg College received all of
Virginia's portion Of the Land Scrip
fsnd, amounting to some $500, 900 at the
time, with the positive and express
condition that no charge was to be !
created upon the State. Before two
Years had elapsed application was made |
for s45, 900, and it was inconsiderately
voted. Since then an appropriation is
annually made, and the precedent be-
ing fixed for supporting another class
school not whit superior in any re-
spect to either ofthe graded schools or
Polytechnic Of this county. Governor
Holiday, who considers it dishonest to
educate the masses" before we pay
100000 Of war and reconstruction
interest which two corrupt lawyers
brihed forty.two ignorant legisla-
tors to pass, again approved.
Tie Richmond Medical College.
which not a dozen doctors outside the
vic.I ity of Richmond know to be in
existence, gets an annual appropriation
to graduate few professionals at State
expense, and the same Governor who
says that the debt mot the fraudulently
compounded war and reconstruction
INTEREST," is older than the free schools,
forgetting that the debt proper is older
than any Of these colleges. again ap-
proves.
The Valley Governor" Is sweet
scented gcranium to then Of Valley
people. The Valley counties pay
about one-fifth Of the school tax Of
the State, thirty-thrce per cent Of which
aeyer comes back to them. A good
graded school now stands open 10
months in the year in nearly every
town. and the people are just beginning
10 show then zeal in perfecting the sys-
lem in all the country districts. The
Auditor this year tells them that their
school tax has teen absorbed by cou-
pons, that their schools must close,
and that they cannot have as many as
last year, although it was just being de-
termined 10 have a great many more.
The legislature passes simple bill
(not tho Barbour bilD saying this fund
must hereafter be paidin money, so that
the taxpayers shall reap the benefit for
which il is levied and collected. The
Valley Governor, whose people pay
such proportion Of it, steps in with a
veto Of this bill. and then approves the
appropriations to the colleges.
The Lunatic Asylum appropriation
oflast year not paid, the jsils full Of
lunatics, and the college appropriations
approved.
The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum
appropriations Of last year not paid, and
the college appropriations approved.
The treasury in debt to the School
fund s3s3.oOO, the schools dwarfed,
diminished in numbers or closed, the
bill to collect their money in money We
toed, and the college appropriations
approved.
And all this by the Valley Governor.