Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-04-28
~AxormER Jon ExPOsED."
Under this head the Walker Lake
Rullefin saYa;


Bulletin says:
1T seems - though each successive
inoumbent Of the useless Office Of State
Superintsndent Of Public Instruction
imsaines that the textbook swindle is .
portion Of the legitimate p~erquisites Of
he Office. It 10 > pretty generally ad-
mitted fact that Superintendents do not
recommend these changes unless there 10
somethinQ in it for them. Mr.. Young,
at the Teachers' Institute recently held
n Virginia, announced that another dive
was to be made into tho pockets OF m
fortunate parents, presumably for the
purpose Of buying the worthless trash Of
some publishing house anxious to dispose
81 ! stock OF shclf-worn books. .
ssThe people Of this State have expe-
risnced enough Of this sort OF thing in
the past, and are too poor now to n
tribute anything toward eking out the
reduced salary Of the monument Of past
e-xtrsvagauce and present uselessness.
"Already the State press has pretty
thoroughly ventilated the scheme, and
the probabilities are that . stop will be
put TO the swindle."
The SENTINEL discussed the question
Of text books At length yesterday and
placed il before the public in it, true
light. The ignorance and malice dis
our contemporaries In
the discnseion are pai1tnt 70 sc0nsensFs-
and do violence tc the assumption that
the press can always be depended on to
instruct and sdvise the public in this
State. II IL Onslaught upon the Board
Of Education the Enterprise commended
Treasurer Tufy 70 the people, and, pat
ting the old man on the back, assured
them that he would not betrsy them ia
this vital text book matter. Quito :
little joke il must have been on the auto
cratic editor Of that journal to discover
thAt MI. Tuiy il not ; member Of the
Board Of Education, and that he has no
moro 70 do with the text books Of our
public schools than Mr.. Editor himself.
And now comes our contemporary Of the
recent Hawthorne metropolis and be-
lAbors the present and al preceding
School Superintendents a. the sole agents
Of the trouble complained Of, - though
the Schoolmaster General were not .
minority Of one y against the two 9th
ers Of the Board, the Governor and the
Surveyor-G General.
Our Walker Lake brother Of the quill
should discriminate somewhat among
persons whom he il in the humor to boz
smirch- In generosity Of abuse Justice
may BE- sacrificed.
The misfortune Of having held .'the
useless Office Of Superintendent Of Pub
lilo Instruction" is sufficiently great Of
itself, hence any man that has been un-
fortunate enough to hold it ought, in
charity, TO be let alone when his thank
len job il finished. That there il such
An Office Is not the fault Of the incum-
bent. That the Office i continued Is due
% The Constitution Of the Stats. That
IL II ssnpeless" i because the Legislaturea
of Nsvada have persistsntly refused "a
rsnder Il useful.
The writer Of this article held thu
nominal ONCE ck Superintendent Of ths
schsols q this Stste for four years, and
he inds enough to regret in that naked
iaok Al such officer hs was. and il. /
legitimate subjsot Of criticism. Nor i
he thin skinnsdt bat be has rome apprs