The Dawson journal., 1885-09-03
TAXATION FOR THE S0-CALLED
BRANCH COLLEGES.

tne house committee on Elnan-
ces opposing the "bill TO appropri-
ate money to the Board of Trus-
tees of the State university for
the use of the branch colleges,
ETC., is one of the ablest docu-
ments presented to the present ses-
sion of the legislature. It's argu-
ment is &C comprehensive, exhaustive
and unanswerable. Their view of
the subject should prevail and thus
defeat one. of the narrowest
and most unfair measures
urged on the people of Georgia.
The JOURNAL has opposed
this and similar measures for
years; its files are filled with con-
elusive editorials and able commu-
J nications on the subject. We will
not repeat the arguments used.
These so-called colleges located
at Dahlonega, Milledgeville, Fl TIM
ilton, Thomasville and Cuthbert
/ are nothing more than good high
schools or academies, such as can
be found in all our towns and cities.
Their course of study Is the same,
their teachers are neither more
numerous nor better qualified,
their numbers are not larger or
drawn from a more extensive
scope of country, they send no
more boys to the Central State
University than the schools of the
adjoining towns and cities. Why
then should the people of the
State be called on to support these
so-called colleges?
The only good which they do is
to the communities in which they
are located. What good they do
to the surrounding country is done
by private self-supporting schools
as well. More boys have come to
Dawson Is school from Cuthbert
and Randolph than ever went
from Terrell county to the social
ed branch college at Cuthbert.
If local advantage is the only
| good or the main good done by
these schools then it is an unjust
discrimination against the private
and public schools'of other places.
t Georgia has been legislating
against such determinations when
wrought by our railroads and will
she lend herself to an equally un-
just system when applied to edu-
cation? Dawson has two schools
OF which any community might be
proud; schools doing a good work
for the town and its vicinity, equal
in every respect to either of the
so-called colleges. Is it right tc
make Dawson and Terrell county
help educate the boys of Randolph
and Cuthbert. Is it fair to give
the school named advantages over
our schools of similar grade in
competing for the patronage Of
the general public? Surely this
is an unjust discrimination.
| Americus generously provides
/ educational facilities for all he1
youth of both sexes and races by
a special tax, through her public
school system. Is it right to lay
on her an additional tax for the
benefit principally of Cuthbert' s
boys and few others from Ran
dolph county.
No, the Legislature should eth.
er abolish all the branch colleges
in the State and use the entire in.
come of the University to make oul
State Institution in fact what il
is now in name, or she ought to
provide out of her treasury equal
High school facilities for each
county in the State according tc
the basis adopted in the common
school system. The latter is i'm.
possible. The former is the true
and wise course in the premises.
We are glad to know that oul
, immediate representatives ale
| alive to this important question
and that the name of our membe,
in the House appears among the
! wise minority of the finance com.
mittee.
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