Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-06-25
RcjOinder from Mr.. Rose, President Of
the Board OF Education

h'JOihuer from MT. Rose, FreSluent oil
| the Board Of Education
IT Is with great reluctance that reply
to the article which appeared IN the Daily
Capital Thursday evening and in yester
mornings issue Of your paper, entitled
"A DISCLAIMER" signed by N. ID. Fan
ming and l.. B. Durstine, believing q
newspaper controversy will not tend to
promote the interests Of our schools, and
l would not do so Lad not the persons
allowed named knowingly, wilfnlly, false.
and publicly through the press accused
me Of the various charges mentioned in
heir article. The former pcrs.n knows
of his own personal knowledge, from two
years ASSOCIATION with me as a member
OF the board Of education and of the
teachers committee that the charges he
has made are untrue and false, and while
ccncede the right of every ci.lzen TO
fairly and truthfully criticise my acts as
public officer, yet clam that such
right should be exercised in fair and
christian like spirit, and in language.
terms and style betting Il gentleman, and
rot that OF mere ward politician or
member of Billlngsgate, aud that his
criticisms should he confined TO the mat.
ter in controversy and not resort to slur-
ring rs he has done in his SAID article. Es-
peel ally is tins expected from person to
whom along with others the care and
! custody OF the education of the youth of
our city has been committed ana whose
chief occupation is teaching others the
correct principles OF life, and whose
teaching should be constantly excmpli.
fed by example as well as by precept.
(! The latter person knows equally as
well es the former, although We have
not been associated together as members
OF the board of education but short
time, yet have been associated considcra.
bly, as business men, that am not such
u person as he and his colleague have
portrayed me IN their sa,h articles, and il
they are mol ashamed of themselves in
thus wlilfully and untru.hfully misrepre-
se9tl!ng }a!a!g,l me- they as gentlemen should be
ffiiia slurrlng manner matter cRtfFttFifH f6f
eign to the subject, for they we'll know
that persons resort to ridlcule, sarcasm
and sophistry only when they are hard
run for truth, facts and argument. The
above named persons charge me IN their
article with f)mcnting strife IN the body
over which | preside. TO tins charge
will state that not an unpleasant thought
word or action has ever occurred in the
board during the past two years. But on
the contrary, the most leasant relations
have existed among the members thereof
during that period, and all the actions OF
the board have been unanimous during
that time, with two EXCEPTIONS there
were only two nay votes cast during the
two years las the records of that body
will show, and not until our newly elect
ell member of the board took his sea,
were there any unpleasantness whatever,
and none to my knowledge ever occurred
until our last meeting, when the above
members of the teachers committee took
umbrage because took the liberty oI
criticlsng their report, which l had q
right to do, and which it was my dnty tc
do in justice to myself and my constltu
cnts on account of the position have
taken and maintained from my first con.
necton with the hoard IN respect to tht
selection of teachers and their rcmunera
tion, of which shall say more hereinaf
ter.
They further charge me with ''inSplr
ing" the aspers,ons claimed by them tt
have been cast upon them in the article
in the Argus to which they allnde. Tt
this charge will state that on the morn
ing after our last meeting the editor O
the jamestown department of the Argu:
came into my Office and in allnding it
our meeting the evening before, and 0:
being asked by him why the committe'
made the recommendation they did. re
Piled that thought it was from chprcl
influence growing out of sympathy an,
charity, or words to that effect. This
did say. thought 80 then, and thinl
these, which | submit to an lntelligcn
public as TO whether the following fact
warrant such belief, and whether an,
other hypothesis can be assumed upol
which the teachers committee acted un
der the Lirc umstances. Upon the organ
iZation of the board of education o
jamestown, sOou after our new city char
ter had been obtained, and upon my elec
ton as president thereof, stated to tn
members of the hoard that it would b.
we'll il we had some understanding as t,
what policy we should pursue in conduct
ing our schools, and was asked TO Civ
my views. | stated that was IN favo
, of organizing as good system Of school
as was possible, and to effect such a sys
TEN 1t would be necessary 10 emplo
teachers who had received good liberia
, education, with special instruction in tn
art of teaching, and who had IN addition
to these qualifications several years cxpe
, rience in some Of the best schools IN III
| country, and that this would necessitat
5 the payment of much larger salaries tha
we had heretofore been paying. Ii
2 these principles the members of th
e board conceded with me, and We proceed
: ed to act on them, and We have acte
, upon them as far as We could during I'll
l past two years, and with correspondent
, success. With such success that othe
3 cities have sought to induce some al on
y teachers to leave us and to engage wit
o them With sneh success IS TO lead tn