Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-04-14

| According to Semloh's statement If tbs e
preparations were Withdrawn from these Coz
and Academies and applied to the pk
| schools, each teacher would receive but SAB
more annually. A more liberal calculation wOl
give them $50 90. This he regards as an insif
nifcant sum, which would be Of no benefit To-
pupils
] have always beFh of opinion that higaa
wages command better services. but have -four
one who is even willing TO take issue with n
here. am not surprised to find however, tn
the advocates Of appropriations 10 colleges SHOUT
be ready and willing TO deny the fact that sfhiek
er wages will command better Services
teachers reEder better services, il Is eyidenttDs
every child who attends the public schno1s M
be benefited to the,extent of the quality or Qian
| tity ~ services rendered by their instructors
Any assumption TO the contrary would be 1
| deny that teachers are mortals.
II becomes the advocates of these endowed in
situations to show that they are necessary. tia
they are Indispensable, that private capital iR
dividual exertion and honorable ambition VT
fail TO secure To the State all the benefits of high
er culture, and lastly, that the poor reap q
benefit TO be derived from them before they q
establish any claim 10 the support Of the tax
ers or laboring masses. To do this, would
prove that Is equal to 4, or vice versa,
equal to 8, which may Be done theoretically, "
henStDle uhu VIII believe u as q Ihcy
few words more IN justification Of my oppo
sition to St. Johns College and win clos
$3.50. 600 has been appropriated to this collie
within the last six years-that Is, $25, 900 ann
ally. $25, 900 TO educate 40 pupils About sos
each. Who ever heard of such liberality Ana
In the face OF these facts. we have our pupils ~
turned to MS poor and emaciated from bein
lodged In rooms to which our prison cells III
palaces, and from having been fed upon fot
which would not be considered suitable to Oh
nese digestion. #l
will not recapitulate what said 10 my q /
card for fear OF annoying the public by presenA
ing facts with which they are already acquainsgl
and which have not been eontroverted, but
obliged 10 call public notice % the seafsAsAs
unlimited tendency Of such system 0fapprql*
atoms. IL st. Johns College had snceeedeAn /
her mandamus against the State and had gem |
the $3.50, 600, she would have cost the Comps /
wealth up TO this time but little short ofObeil-
lion dollars; but the college authorities disv- |
ering that they were about 20 involve the tie |
and force her to Reputation, agreed 20 accenln |
lieu Of all READ or supposed claims the smallam |
Of 50, O00 annually.
She now receives So, 900, and learn fromhe |
papers that Prof. Leavitt 10 seeking the ifu-
enee Of prominent politicians 20 secure an adi-
tional appropriation Of $50, 600 annually. hm
confident that the State will not respond 10 Deb
a demand upon her reeOurees, and feel satticd
that st Mary's, consulting her own lntcrcsend
that of the rising generation, will rs she sheid,
ever frown upon the advocates of these 'sHs-
bonoTod' Observation-Disclosures which are
great leaks to the public treasury and ofno en-
eft 10 ihe poor children.
NsErs. Editors, In inclusion, wish 10 ~,
eheerfully forgive Semloh aud Il D. 7 for ibel un-
warranted attacks on me. | hopei however, that
Scnlloh has'ound some correspondents ofihe tsA-
cos who can give him bis satipfaciiohin She lasof
personalities; II he Is conisat afg nnrh lile stiii
II - I ,.tt =stt'fta "a
~ "o'' .,pNnd To cnlighlon The public again shsy
giil, hope, remember that personalities rove
nothing save the ill-,empcr Of the wgitrr, aud are
never jastihnble except IN seli-deleuee Win
these kindly Intended remarks. leave them 20
the gracious judgment 81 the public, whose trial
shall he impartial and Rnal and whose decision
will doubt not, be tempered with mercy.
Respectfully, FRAHE n. hotsss.