The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-15
Hi.h.toned DefauIters.

Hish.tOmed Defaulters.
The New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser pauses for a, moment in its
work of Safeguarding the Halt
breeds to shed a Teal over the fact
that ofthe many famous or infamous
defaulters which this country has
produced, nearly every one "stood
high in the community" Look at
a partial list: Carleton, of the Union
Trust Company, stole 100000;
Phelps, of the treasury department
at Albany, $3oo,ooo; j. G. Duncan
of San Francisco, bank president,
$75O,OO0 E. D. Winslow, Boston,
preacher, legislator and Christian
fnancier, $6OO,00O; David Gage,
Treasurer, Chicago, $500, 900; Ward
well, bank cashier, Providence, $780,
600; Abraham jackson, lawyer, trus-
tee, ETC., Boston, s3oo,OOo; John c.
Tray, bank president, Hartford,
5000, 900; John R. Morton, banker,
Philadelphia, $1,ooo,oOO; Henry Nj
coll, lawyer, New York, 5000, 900; G.
Van Holieru, collector taxes, Chicago
$13O,0OO; Oscar L. Baldwin, $780,
900. Here are twelve men whose ag-
gregate stealings foot up $4,000, 900.
In every case the thief was a man
who "stood high in the community"
and in most of them he was a con-
spicuous figure in church affairs
One might go back beyond the seven
or eight years covered by the above
list and fEd a sickening addition to
it. There were very many defalca-
tons within that period that have
been omitted, but those mentioned
were the largest. II is a terrible
picture to contemplate, that of men
carefully educated, surrounded by
true and noble friends and yet rush
ing on to ruin, disgrace, and a felon's
cell. - sza
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says
the usual raid on the common school
system of the state is already an
nounced and will be in good shape
to be let loose as soon as the Legis-
lature assemblies. 1t is proposed, il
we correctly %apprehend the scheme
of the gentlemen who are active in
this movement, to rip up the entire
school system of state and have q
brand new one in its. Briefly the
new idea is to spread the city and
village plan of running the schools
out over the entire state with such
notifications as may be necessary te
make it fit. That is to say, local
school government in the townships
and country districts is to be done
away with, and the schools of q whole
county brought under one manage
ment, just as all the schools ola city
are now under n management
There r to be county %Superinten
dents and county Board OF Educa
ton, and the machinery generally
that is now employed in the city ant
village school. Instead ofeach schoo
district having it's own Board of Di
%rectors, competent to regulate the
affairs of its own school all thu
schools in a township or according
to another plan, in the county, are
to be controlled by one Board and
superintendent. Districts are to bt
abolished, reconstructed, combined
and the whole existing state Of affair
as regards the common schools com
pletely reyolutionized. Some sucl
scheme as this has been before ever,
Legislature for the-iast ten years, Blu
it is to be pushed with unusual pei
tinacity this winter by State Schoo
Commissioner De Wolf, and othe
advocates of the plan. The argu
ments for and the objections to thi
scheme may be hereafter considered