The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-02
MORE BoNDsl MORE BOND !.

The New school House Proposition.
To the Editors c/Me Emporia Hescs:
=. The cry is more bonds. and see tha
the Rev. Thomas Burrows comes 10 tn
support of the school board and advc
Gates their issue, in THE NEWS. Til
cheerful disposition with which man,
: non-taxpayers have ever been willing 4
urge us TO vote bonds, fills me with In
admiration extended to the disintereste,
Artemas Ward, who was willing TO sac
rifice all his wife's relations on the alta
OF his country in the late "onpleasant
ness" OF course, vote bonds to give
our boys large and pleasant play
ground" There is no unoccupied ground
now fer tAemi 1t is too much trouble ia
compel the dear boys TO go to some oil
the vacant lots which everywhere abound
OF course, vote bonds. 1t is nothing; a
mere trifie! You dent want TO array
! yourselves, voters, "agin" education, and
disappoint the wishes of the non-taxpay-
ing preachers and school teachers. They
want new school house. Why stand
whining and hesitating? Give the boys
nice playground, and the Rev. Bur
rows and the school marms a new
school house to look at $4,000 is
nothing.
have nothing to say against Dir. Bur-
rows, as he is II man respect, but does
he know this little city is one hundred
Mous6nd do1Lars IN deGt? Does he con-
side@ il of little consequence To add
another fifteen thousand? Does lie not
know that the school houses, though not
what we all should like to have them.
are better than the houses half the pat
rons Of the school live in. Would it be
wise for said patrons to build new houses
for themselves on debt? Irnot, then IL
would not be wise to go in debt for a
school. The same principle aplies in
both cases.
There is another thing about the sub.
mission of this proposition toplunge the
city further in debt l don't like, and
that is that the school board do not give
Us any information IN regard to what
they are going 10 do with the money.
They again ask us to 50 1t blind! We
have confidence in the gentlemen com.
posing our educational legislature, but |
at the same time We should like to know |
something Of their plans. AS We, the |
people, have the bills to pay we think
We have the right TO ask for light. Is
this new building intended for "A ward or
central buildings If for central build. |
ing, do they not know that $4,000 is en-
TREY inadeqQate-ihat a. our present
rate OF increase in population as central
building it would bealaughing stock in
three years? If it Is intended TO erect a
ward building, in which ward is it 20 be
ocated? and would not $4,000 be suffi-
'ient? Are you going it haphazzard
merely for the sake of voting bonds, and
because Davis asks you 10, or have YOU
my definite plans by which you intend to
ay out $4,000 of the peoples moneyg
u you knew, gentlemen, what your plans
ire, what is the objection TO letting the
public know something about them
The reverend wants 10 veto s15o00
more debt on account Of the good effect
VIII have OH strangers. Has he ever
lad any experience with new Corners
what is the first question man with
apilal asks when he arrives here With a ,
lew TO locatingf "What's your taxes 9" Z
The reply is made, "Wcll, our county is !
II debt S23O,OOO, and our little city $780,
20, and of course our taxes are neces :
arily pretty heavy" Ho breaks for the 4
otel TO get his grip sack, and that is the c
asst Of HIM. '
or course we would look nice with }
ew school house, bps' what We want c
lore is something to give US pcrman. G
ney, and to enable us to hold what we :
ave, and TO get in capital and start I
interests. Much as l b
'ould like to see new school house, / E
iihk. with tHe Increased room the build. | .
igs now used by the Normal school h
MI give us in a few weeks, We can get a
long for two or three years more with I
lt increasing our debt With all due !,
eierenee 10 our hobby and ambitious V
'hool superintendent 1 believe these ii
llldings Will do To use. The Normal =,
as gotten along with them and ! do not n
e why our nice school teachers canno.. &
II time. They are a nice set of folks. o
know, and we would like to treat them u
prineely style. but those buildings +,
~ US $1,000 and We can't afford to u
row them away To accommodate Davis
Burrows. What do strangers say
bout our sidewalksY IIadh,t we better
'te bonds 10 build new ones, so that h
rangers will not he in danger OF break. 5
g their valuable necks when they walk h
'ont the city, What do strangers say p
,al.t plF haiei Recommendations. Had =
e not better vote bonds to give people !.
lmiurIaLle quarters while they stav e
ith us IL viii readily be seen TO what W
fearful extent this bond voting might G.
run, unless we draw IN lie eeinB. &
We Yce sofry aar sRperintendent is d
II happy, and that nothing viii make Ii
m so but the voting OF u $4,000 debt =
! oar property, We aye glad he feels =,
z enough to Instruct this community, 81
I'd belraguer it for a new school house. h
believe if he would content his cana Ii
Gus intellect with doing the work we e,
re him to do, instead q speading his II
luable time in writing hessassn on t
w school houses. and in drilling dis OF
intent with their quarters into The ~ ~
inds of the children, he would at leas. "a
more in RlaSe. aud that our schools OF
nuld not have more brain power ex- OF
Rded upon them than they could stand. ~ ~
me of the teachers could also adopt in
e same suggestions with entire X
fety to the pupils of our schools. CT
We think we have done very well by ~
avis. Think what he was intellectual. Iii1