The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-17
SCHOOL TAX,
same views on This Very Much Important
Question M

oferecling school buildings in the city, We
believe that the discussion OF this subject
il now in order. Before engaging in any
enterprise the main question TO be an
swered is, will the benefits and profits of
Inc undertaking warrant the expense and
outlay attending its completion. We shall
endeayor 10 show i'll the first place that the
direct pecuniary benefits to be derived will
more than pay the taxpayers of Dallas for
the investment. In the second, place the
direct benefits that will follow the
moral and intellectual training of
the young cannot be estimated
in dollars and cents either to individuals or
society. We have now in the city two
monuments of brick and stone, the Que
with its spacious. walls and towering dome,
indicating our pride in suitable ediiice in
which to mete out even.handed Justice TO
the contentious and disturbers OF the pub.
lie peace.
The other, with its heavy, massive walls
and ironbarred doors and windows, stands
as constant menace and warning to the
vicious and plotters of crime. It's well;
these are indispensable auxilliaries TO Sc
cure peace and order, to punish crime, and
to protect the innocent.
But suppose a parsimonious public spirit
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buildings some deserted, useless building, in
an unwhoesome locality were rented in
which to dispense justice, also some rickety,
old, insecure building in which to contine
criminals would not people feel insecure in
both person and property, and would not
this state OF things alone depreciate real
estate in Dallas county and city Vt least 10
per cent, and would it not have retarded
the growth OF Dallas at least % per cent. for
the last eight years from what it is now,
with the advantage of only respectable
COurt-housel If we are right in the first
supposition (which We are not afraid to SUBJ
nit TO any candid NAM, we would have
this result, The valuation of the county,
We believe, is 100000; 10 per cent.
on this, is S0OU0Oo we would gain
in valuation. in consequence of
one respectable public building.
The true test of value is what property will
bring and we now submit TO any reasona.
bic man in search of home if he would
not give 10 per cent. more for real estate
with the present facilities to administer
justice, secure the criminal and punish
crime in this county, than he would with a
cheap state of things in this direction as
first represented. The result is the same
in the erection of substantial school build
lngs and let US show as much interest and
respect for the education of our children,
at least, as we do for the sons of vice and
crime, by providing them with equally as
spacious and expensive buildings, i'm which to
prosecute their studies with the most modern
system and plans of iDstruction-to awaken
an interest and n love of the study of the
sciences-make the grounds surrounding
the building spacious and beautiful, adorn
It with trees, flowers and shrubbery, select
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each ward for a site; then select your teach
ers not wholly through friendship, but fit
ness for the work before them
They should teach by example as
well as precept. Children are great
initators, and are more liable to copy the
vices than the virtues of q teacher. If
your teacher is protane and untruthtul the
children will soon discover it and copy after
him; il he imbibes too freely of stimulants
they will seek the first opportunity to ex-
pertinent in this direction. Instruction in
the sciences unaccompanied with moral in
struction, in all those virtues that adorn
and beautiiy character, is to great extent
lost in the applications of this knowledge
N most of the business relations of life.
There is too much neglect and indifference
in the selection of teachers. There is no
labor so important to parents as the in
struction OF their children yet no service
mas so little attention from them as this.
Buzz, to return to our subject. We believe
that four or five school buildings with the
grounds worth ten thousand dollars
each, should be Immediately erected
to meet the present needs of Dallas. We be-
lieve, further, that it would enhance the
value OF property in and around the city at
least five per cent We deduce these con.
customs from what we have Geen demon
strated in other places under like circum-
stances. 1t We are correct, 1t would add to
the value Of rcalestate in the city about one
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Not only this, but we would witness an
immediate decrease in the expense of our
criminal docket, especially among the
younger, class of criminals, who are being
educated on the streets, taking their first
lessons in crime. These school buildings
could be utilized at night for various intel
lectual entertainments, such AS lyceums,
where discussions on various subjects and
readings, spelling-matches, ETC., could be
ENGAGED in, that would draw largely from
gtmoling haunts, variety theatres, and
other licentious dens of vice and crime. we
say then let us have the school buildings,
ana let us. take an interest in the
moral and intellectual discipline
OF our children, for on them depend the fu.
lure OF this growing, proud and prosperous
nation Of ours. The young and plastic
mind OF the present generation is being
SNAPPED to take charge of this magnificent
inheritance, and no citizen can, in Justice
oeexempt. from the responsibility to con.
tribute and aid in q purpose involving his
own security and protection, aswell as that
o. posterity. We realize there are commu.
mites in this nation where police regula.
Tons are comparatively dispensed with
where the expense of the criminal docket is
nominal; where jails are almost tenantless
ana where citizens can lie down to reposc
Mnight and feel sense of security with
unlocked doors, and here is where the chill
uren have had the advantage for years of 0
en'lnonths school each year, under the
careful supervision of the most competent
anu exemplary superintendent and in
ss.tuctors, and we are free to assert, without
iear oil successful contradiction, that there
sho public investment that can be made
~ profitable as that made.to afford ever,
enlid the advantage of liberal education
uhuer the most liberal and improved meth
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