West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-10-09

fossiliEcd 10y our Bourbon ways Hut
this l. not their greatest rash ness They
llow and shout and swear that wa have
abused our free schoal intorests and
turned our back upon them, that our
schools are in bad condition and among
their enemies. This lie Is too silly to
explode. ono glance ut tho school rocold
of the state. at the spread OF education.
at the care we ate bound to give its
funds 10y the soverest legal and cnnstitu.
tiona' rostrhnt, should expose the hlsi,
" OF tho charg and quiet tho suspicious
otHll. No wiser manSHeInsut of them
Hould be devised. The condition of
our schools, ths grsst increase IL the
attendance, the elegant and numerous
houses erected by w. the fact that Dem
ocracy gave lhem birth In our state, the
| excellence or the moi who have them In
charge. the failure or any showing
against us but tho comp liant from par
tisau fury and stupidity, should alIay
all fears and alarm. The visa aud
economical nRnRg gonent of them by
which mere nominal tax To the State.
county and district is required to main
tain them, should cntitle US To- a boom
| for good schools. hut lot Us talNo up our
! old iriond the record, and see what Il
says on this subject. our irredu al bIe
school fund is well invested, and au hon
est board guards welt tho e876 900 that
! belongs TO It. Its annual Increase PRO
vided by statute IL considerable, and
nothing save its interest can bo diverted
sud that only FOR schools. No hungry
horde OF registrars, or army Of officers,
whose duty IL is to ostIHcise our people,
can open tho vaults ahgd contain II, 10
nlsappropriate it from educational oh.
| jects. But what have we done for the
Cultu. o of our yodthH Lot us see which OF
the Two parties now claiming your votes
has done the most, Lot w briefly make
the comparison. or let us take six years
OF zach pariy's administration and 500
who distributed tho greslea fund for
educational purposcs.
CONTRAST.
! in 1895, you apportiOned To the gensr~
| al school ruLd for thc uso OF the tree
sch Ools of the State, Sos, ,444.OO; In 1869,
| SlO0, ,928, ,sS In 1867, SI65 .U3l ~ in 1863,
500. 1870, 80 In 1869, SlSs, ,4i0.4 In p7O,
the year the Radicals misappropriated
or oYerdrew for registrars. election mas
chin cry and other purposes SBO,h2s, 81,
the schools got simply S57,O2S,6O. But
let US look at tho table tho Democratic
party presents In 1871. wo distribu-
tod S247 ,63l, - ia 1872, Sl79,227,l4; In
1878. $2I9, ,5l4. % In 1874, S24O, ,S59 SO I'm
1873, &saI A79.@ In 1879. s2l9.27S,s7
! Do you wi ,h 20 know the difference
Here IL is. Our Radical friends distIib>
uted in their six years 1928, ,O45,l5. The
Democratic party IN like time 81, ,386 .6s7,
| 90. Difference, S63s, ,63S.S5. Now whine
through your noses that that's Demo-
cratic liei Look up rbS faets, and II this
is not true will plead guilty to your
Indictment and eat all tho crow you pre-
scribe.
| But fearing you may charge me with
All improper OF u ni'dr esmpaTison. will
give you tho figures, showing the sum
wo have distributed In tho last three
! years to show you that ths Democracy
! il Sill Watching tho strong boys and
fair girls Of our State. In 1877 our aps
portionment was I75, 1875 la 1879, Isl, =.
| 4I4,60 In 1879 and 80 tho fiscal year,
30 233, so. And now let US take all our
| sch ool expenses. From 1895 to 1870 tho
Republicans paid for teachers lO2lO52 o.
aud for building IO.4O7 .0S4 total, 1895,
O37 .3S. We Democrats. with less rates
! Of taxation, AS the books show, from
| 1870 70 1873, spent for teachers 21JS5S6.7
for buildings I093y7I 10 total, 323lslI .4S
| Now burdoHing tho people less with
taxation, we Oxpend generally on free
schools nearly one a%d quarter mil
lions more than the Republicans sx .
| pended la tho Same length OF time, tho
amount ~ teachers being about ilI5OOO
ia that time in excess Of Whist tho Re~
publlcans paid. From 1865 to 1870 the
| Republicans spent for teachers and all
purposes 2lOOOOO la round numbers.
From 1871 10 1875, we spent 70 lift our
! people up to tho sunland OF educati on
and culture 100000 In round numbers
being inerenco Ia our favor Of nearly
100000, and the books tell us that this
IL 80, and that we did not Increase, but
diminiyhed taKsti0n that wo have
from 10000 10 10000 moro scholars.
GIVE Us 4 REsT.
Let us hear no more shAilow and par
tisan cries about our failures in the f
nAnces end school government of our
Stste. Why, your penitentiary fur
nishes you an illus.TatioD Of tho man
agsment of each party, and nearly
forgot il, which should convince you
that 81 your institutions are in safe
hands, lB liitls OVsr four years you
Radicals expended here about el7D,DOO
or about 30 cents por prisoner each day,
In tho Rye and a quarter years follow
ing we only spent e930 900, or about Is
cents per prisoner'per day. Eow we
run Il a. about ten or twelve cents.
am sure IL does not exceed twelve cents
each day for every msp. Now, you are
still entitled to a verdict on the rest ol
the counts. if ne do not disprovo your
charges. or " We hY silenps admit their
truth - Garfield did when Ames va.
aliYo ppd on the stand.
4 Well they say again that our courts
are expensive and not we'll constituted
Well, the people can change them Ia
the less expensive ones if they please
A. the option Of the counties tbay NAV