Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-20

ment, in which the vote of the plantation
negro equalled the vote of the merchant
prince education was indispensable to the
continued existence OF liberty. IL was
because the society of the South was our
society, and the interest OF the South our
interest, it was because in the sublime
trial which ended in 1855 IL was deter
mined that hereafter and forever this was
TO be nation, and not an aggregation OF
warning and conflicting communities held
together by feeble bond, that we had a
| right to demand that the national resour-
ces should be poured out TO their fullest
extent to secure to every American cIti-
zen intelligence that was necessary in
each for the common benefit of all.
FIGURES QUOTED.
Mr.. Hoar cited figures to show that un-
der Mr.. Ingalls, theory Mississippi would
get fifteen times as much money from the
bill as would Massachusetts, while by
the bill as it stood it would get only four
times as much.
Mr.. Ingalls, Nothing lies like figures.
| Laughter.
Mr.. HoaT-Sometimes people lie under a
Misrepresentation from not having read the
! figures before making speeches. Re-
newed laughter
Mr.. HOar agreed that the future Of the
cOlored race was bright one, but, with
out regard to where the blame rested for
the ignorance of the cOlOred people, he
! MIR. HOar believed that If the general
| government did not assist in the work of
their education, that the work would be
| postponed to the remote future.
INTELLIGENT VOTES.
| The white Democrats of the South had
sins enough to answer for, for the suppress
sion of an honest vote was one Of the
worst of crimes; but Whatever may have
been the faults of those people, MIR. HOar
said, they could not be Justly counted
with seeking, by "talse pretenses," to get
money from the Treasury under this bill,
or with having uttered in the ear of the
nation any pusillanimous cry for help.
This was a Northern idea, and was based
on the principle that the eye cannot say
| to the hand, al have no need of thee"
TWO GROUNDS OF OBJECTION.
Mr.. Harris agreed with Messrs. Nor
gan, Coke, and Maxey that Congress had
no mower under the constitution to levy
taxes and appropriate money so collected
10 the purely State purpose Of maintain
ing common schools; but il the question
were free from constitutional objection
he would still oppose it for the reason
that the money to be appropriated for this
purpose, whether taken from the treasury
of the several States or from the Federal
treasury, was drawn Dy bAXhLlOn lTOm buG
pockets of the people of the several States
and Territories.
THE PEOPLE MUST PAY.
AS the people had to pay these SIT 7,000,-
600 il became a matter of interest to them
to ascertain the method by which it could
be paid with the least inconvenience
and injury. III collected under the direct
tax system of the States every dollar
drawn from the earnings OF the people
would 60 into the Treasury, and each
citizen would have contributed in pro-
portion to his wealth and his
ability to pay. Not so, however,
under the Federal system OF taxation,
! about two-thirds Of our revenue being
collected under the Federal tariff laws,
so that the people we're compelled TO pay
large amounts In the way of bounties to
protected manufacturers and the poorest
man was compelled to pay as much as
the wealthiest.
EXCLUSIVELY STATE RIGHT.
On the score therefore of economy, as
well as of right, Mr.. Harris would leave
the matter Of common school education
to the States, where it legitimately and
exclusively belonged. He would never
consent to see the strong hand of the Fed
eral power exerted in State for the Dur-
pose of controlling or interfering with its
domestic affairs. Each State was the
best judge OF it's own educational inter-
ests. Tbs debate on the educational bill
then closed for the day.