The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-14
THE DAILY BULLETIN: SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER a. 1883

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witnesses, fellow scholars, while defendant
was alone. The formers father had employ.
ed Mr.. George Hendricks to conduct com
ulainaHts side of the case and the defen-
dant was represented by Mr.. d. T. Linegar
The evidence proved very concusively that
the punishment inflicted was but slight,
every sign OF it having disappeared the day
after it had been inflicted. The instrument
used was strap, which, since corporal
punishment in the schools is warranted by
law, is probably,as the court said in render
ing his decision, the best and safest instru-
ment a teacher can use in chastsing re-
fractory scholars, as no serious injury can
be inflicted with it under ordinary circum-
stances. Upon the whole, this prosecution
bore upon its face very strong evidences of
malice. 1t comes from source that has
been the cause of former disturb
anccs in the colored schools,
and that while contributing
little OF nothing toward ne support of the
schools, it has shared in all the benefits
and done much to defeat the purposes for
which public schools are established. 1t is
colored schools are harder to control than
those of any of the other public schools;
many of them look upon their teachers
with the utmost contempt, which was amply
proven when Constable Sheehan served the
warrant on Prof Williams, when the scholar
of the professors room, who were out at re-
cess, followed the officer into the school
and set up most disgraceiul
clamor against the teacher, abusing HIM
shametully, and they were joined by acol-
ored woman, mother of one of the scholars,
who shook her fist in the teachers face and
threatened to do him bodily injury for hav-
ing strapped her child. This state of teel-
ing among the scholars is the result of
what they hear at home. Such parents as
Jenkins, who seem prejudiced against the
teacher allow their prejudice to crop IN
conversations IN the presence of their chill
dren at home and infuse the same sentl-
ment into the children who learn to regard
their teacher with contempt, refuse to
learn their lessons, play truants and remain
ignoramuses, much to the surprise of their
parents We are not in favor of corpota
punishment in the schools; we believe that
if good teacher cannot control any one Of
his scholars, that scholar should be expell-
ed, and this should be the
extent of the punishment that
may be diminished by teacher.
But when parent first exctes in his child
u contempt for its teacher, and when the
child is mildly punished for willful dis
obedience magnifes it into an inhuman
assault forbidden by the laws of the state,
ignores the teacher himself and the
school board which is established by law
for the express purpose OF regulating all
matters pertaining to the schools, and re-
sorts at once to the courts, dragging the
teacher before them as a common criminal
when parent does this and is sustained
therein by any considerable number of
others, then, indeed, it becomes question
of some Importance TO those upon the whom
burden of sustaining the colored schools in
our city rests, whether or not the thousands
they pay out every year to educate the
colored youth among us are not So many
thousands thrown away.
Here is the sequal to the little piece of
crookedness practiced by two gentlemen
some nights ago upon an unsuspecting
young citizen of New Burnside, of which
affair THE BULLETIN made mention at the
time In order that the sequal may be un-
derstood we will preface 1t with a brief
rehearsal Of the main facts, and we will say
first that it is not necessary TO give the
names OF any but the principal actor in the
unhOly business, the man who Gishonored
the badge Of an officer of the law by
committing an act little less than highway
robbery upon an unsuspecting stranger, aud
then disposed of the booty for money to
men who didn't know but what they were
honestly ob'aned. The victim, it will be
remembered came to hotel in the city at
night, in an intoxicated condition. He
created disturbance in his room and was
put out. He went to police headquarters
where he found Sergeant Mahanny and
Officer BOUCHER, to whom he complained
that be had been robbed by woman of
SOB He got a warrant for the woman, and
the officers, telling him TO wait at the head
quarters, went to the hotel to arrest the
woman but she had fed. Search of the
mans room led to the discovery of $50 un.
der the pillow, which, together with the
mans watch were held by the clerk of the
hotel. The officers returned to headquarters,
but the man had left. Inquiry was made
by them and ,ley tracked him up Com
merciel avenue and ascertaned that at
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