The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-02
READ THE REASONS.
WHY EVERY WHITE AND COLORED
REPUBLICAN IN CAIRO SHOULD
VOTE FOR HON. JOHN II,
0BERLY TODAY
HIS OPPONENT, MR.. DEMENT,, THE
ENEMY OF OUR COMMON
SCHOOLS, AND THEREFORE,
UNWORTHY OF
SUPPORT


two mills on the 800 of taxable property
in Inc state for common school purposes.
Out Of the fund thus produced, the coun-
ties of lower Egypt-countics poor and
burdened by school expenses resulting
from the large number or non-tax- paying
colored people who located in the river
counties during and after the war-drcw
more dollars than they paid into the fund.
But, in 1878 the general assembly repealed
the two.mill tax against the protest and
vote of the members from this and the
Cairo senatorial districts, and ap-
propriated million Of dollars an
nually for common school purposes, Mr..
Oberly, the democratic candidate for secre-
tary of state. was at that time, member Of
the Legislature, and worked earnestly to
keep the two-mill school tax in the law.
Since that time every general assembly has
voted one million dollars annually for com
mon school purposes, and the tax payers of
Massac and other COMMITTEES Of this part Of
the state have been much benefited by the
| appropriation. II has been used to pay
part of the expense Of our public schools,
and thus has kept down school taxation.
| AT the same time It has given to these
counties the means of appropriately educat.
ing our white and colored children. If the
Legislature were to refuse or neglect to
make Misrepresentation our common schools
would fall into decay, and the children of
poor white and poor black parents would
not have furnished to them the means of
education OF course the man who attacks
| this fund IS an enemy to our free schools.
| Even republicans will admit the truth of
tins assertion. During the 1870 session of
the general assembly, when the question Of
appropriating one million of dollars annu-
ally for the common schools of the state for
the years 1SS0-S1, was before the senate,
Senator John NJ. Hamilton, republican can
didate for lieutenant governor, and Senator
Henry d. Dement,, republican candidate for
secretary of state, both denounced the pro-
posed appropriation and voted against it.
Senator Hamilton voted against it because
| certain democrats from the southern
part of the state insisted upon not
giving to the Bloomington Normal
University as large as an appropriation as
he desired; and Senator Dement, voted
against it on the ground that each county
ought to pay the expenses of its own
schools. He said he was willing to have
his county, which is rich, (his father being
one of its richest men, taxed for the benefit
of other poorer counties. He held that, if
Southern Illinois had poor whites and poor
negroes who would propagate their species,
that part fthe state ought to be compelled
to educate their children or
else let them grow up
in igorance. He was not opposed to COM
mon schools on principle, but he was OPP
posed to making the wealthy part of the
state pay anything toward the education Of
the children of the poor counties. Massac,
Pulaski, Pope, johnson, Alexander and 9TH
err counties of lower Egypt must educate
their own poor white and poor negro child
rem and not call on him and the richer
part of the state to bear any of the ex-
| penses. If either the white or coored repub.
licans Of Alexander county vote for Ham.
ilton and Dement, they will vote tor men
who are enemies OF our common schools.
Mr.. Obcrly, while in the Legislature, stood
bravely by the interests of our school
children, white and black. Dement, tried
to take from the children good common
schools. Every republican. white and
| black, ought to vote against Dement,, the
enemy of common schools Of the poor
counties of Illinois, and vote for Oberly,
who has always battled in their interest.
The votes of Senators Hamilton and Dement,
against the common school appropriation
can be found recorded in the State Journal
of 1870.
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"AND THE LEAVES WERE FOR THE
HEALING OF THE NATIONS"
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