The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1882-12-02

49, NSNEA uot aSCVpt u
when put in This condition. /
would not acceptit If / were in
their PLACE.
TAXPAYERS But, Prof. Prewilt,
we are honest men. We do act
want Messrs. LOwrey and Berry to
furnish us a pubic school house
for nothing, and teach Our daugh-
tiers at a clear loss to themselves.
The law of our State allows us to
give them additional cOmpensa-
ton" and we sent our daughters to
them with that understanding.
Now let Blne Mountain Female
College be made a public school,
and let Messrs. Lowrey and Berry
settle the question Of additional
compensation. Give Us the privi-
legs our State law allows US, that is
all we ask.
PRoF. PREwIrT: No, gentlemen,
| cannot do it. One ofthese things
must be done: MeSsrs. Lowrey and
Berry must take the public school
at a clear loss to themselves and in
addition furnish house, fuel and all
the advantages their college affords
tree of charge, or, you must be de-
prived Of your interest in the public
fund, or you must withdraw your
daughters from Blue Mountain Fe.
male College.
When this whole matter had
been canvassed bet ween Prof.
Prewltt and myself, and all these
views of the SUBJECT had been pre-
sented 10 him, and he hung 10 the
last on the question of legality, and
still declared he would not give US
the school except on ths terms stat
ed above, even if the Board Of Su-
pervisors should rescind the act, l
proposed to call together all the
lawyers of Ripley and leave the
question Of legality 10 them and
cheerfully abide their decision, he
declared emphatlcally that he
would not do it. Some reader OF
this article may be inclined Ia jnsti.
) fy Prof. Prewltt on the ground tina!
his own school is one Of the five
under the prohibition above refer
red to. To this | will reply that
Prot. Prewitt has a nice thing for
} himself, az good as he wants. The
good people of Ripley furnish hun
. a house TO teach in, have subscribed
six hundred dollars, and expect two
hundred and fifty dollars from the
+ Peabody fund. This sum Of eight
hundred and fifty dollars is to be
. used in giving him extra cOmpensa'
g ton. II We should be allowed al
D that | ask. his school would give
him more clear profit than my part
S of the literary department of ours
would give me. He receives "addi
tional compensation" The differ
ence between the plan he works
under and the one we have hereto
fere had ia, that we have received
the additional compensation" from
the parties who received the bene
:. fit. aud he receives it frOm the gen
b erOus people of Ripley who cOntri
tute It on other considerations.
asked him the direct question, ifh'
e would be wiling ~ furnish a h Gus,
and all the necessary comforts 70.
a school and teach it for what th'
e public fund would pay, and he sand
J. he would not. So he requires u
to do that which he says he woul;
NOT do himself, or lose a part Of on
patronage. The Board Of SupervI
" sors will he asked at their mex
IS meeting to rescind the act abov
referred 10. have cOnversed wit
a good number of intelligent me
IS on the subject, and all say the
o ought to do it, and they believ
n thew will do 1t. But Prof. PrewiI
d says he will not grant the schooi
y they do, unless his mind changes