Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-02

The Housa, ore SANK. inside mistake
or v eaBeeaNv ~ ig3s@Eitoly pOstpOning
the bin whlah srcvs.sss ene-mtl tax for
the henesil al the soANoss, ana it made q
stiU greatar mistaken amending the bill
S. as n diss71Sx the proposed fund
sinong the c5l)seN> and counties, and
thus dofest - yaFr~ase. Il is painfully
evident thst there = 5 great want OF
school faoihHos throughout the State. 1t
rs doube'Gl ii iAa-e is 4 single county in
which there are ScAool-houses enough
/ % accommodate 81 the children
az the county who are old
enough 50 S,tsRd school, and in
MANY o. the counties the school fund is
only sufficient Is Keep tae schools open
very smSu Qsvi ~ each year. ;ven in
Mss county, where the schools are ex-
cepuonaLy good. sr1 where very deep
interest . taken II them. the school ac-
cozauoastious are very far from being
ample.
III - t-7oe t1at in this and other South
err >isfss tie white people have a very
heavy t@udeu a. carTy. because they have
60 provide schools Tor the children Of the
co.oreG people IS well as for their own
children. A verv few Of the colored peo-
pie ars taxpayers. and It will be many
yea-s before teey will De able TO bear their
share O.. she e5acaUonsl burden. Indeed
,.er progress = So slow as to raise a
1olt; whether they VIII ever be able 20
bear u.
Isis certain. however. that the growth
O.. the STATE m wesIth and power will be
in proportion as the common schools are
.ostevei sn1 sustained. Careful observa-
ton il the various States shows that
where the common schools receive the
most encouragement there the evidences
of thrift. wealth and prosperity. are the
most marked, and there are 20 be found
the happiest and most comfortable homes
aud the most attractive home life among
the middle and lower classes. The rich
can get along we'll enough without the
common schools. because they can send
their children abroad to be educated; but
how about the poor? VIII not their chill
dren grow up in Ignorance and develop
into men and women without ambition to
improve themselves or their surround
ings? nH q
From almost every lecture platform
and at almost every gathering where ed
vocational matters are discussed the lack
of education among the masses at the
South is commented upon. The Rev. A.
ID. Mayo, than whom the South has no
better friend, in a lecture before the
Young Mems Christian Union in Boston
last Sunday night, stated that one half of
the children Of the Southern States is
not educated at all. He did not make
this statement as a reproach to the South
but simply to refute the cry that the peo-
pie are being oyer-educated.
Whatever money is raised by taxation
for educational purposes ought to 20 to
the common schools. The colleges ought
to be able TO take care of themselves.
Those who patronize them and the rich
men ought to support them. OF course
there is no objection to the State helping
them if it can, but not until the common
schools are amply provided for.
If this Legislature does not do some
thing more for the common schools than
is now being done it is pretty certain that
the time is not distant when a Legisla-
ture will be elected that will provide for
a satisfactory common school system.
The men who put the most votes in the
ballot boxes will not consent to see their
children handicapped, as it were, through
life in order that the burden of taxation
may be fraction lighter.