The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-03-22
wright is Generally wrong.

hlu is not lflenul1 10 INC WooA hht
doctrine. That journal seems 10
have imbibed a prejudice against
wool Hat" about two years since
when be courteously accepted an
invitation from the Herald editor
to "show his face to the public"
The pampered professors at the A.
& NJ. College and the Industrial @
Institute are not specially pleased
with the wool hat doctrine, be-
cause it has a tendency 20 force
them TO earn a living like honest
educators, who follow the profes-
sion from choice and rely upon
their merit for success. But their
denuniciation is lOudest praise to
"the wool hat boys"
The superintendents and officers
of the States Benevolent Institu-
tions are especially disgusted with
that old fogyish idea of 'the wool
hat boys" which requires them to
feed their families, hire their ser
wants and pay for the cleansing OF
their dirty linen with the money
given them as salaries, instead OF
that appropriated for the support
of the unfortunate inmates.
For instance, at the Jackson In.
sane Asylum, the superintendent
and bis assistant managed to get
away with more of the peoples
money under the sanction of Gus
tom, than the law allowed them as
salaries. Instead of using the
$4,000, paid them as salaries for
their services, in the support Of
their families, they occupied the
best rooms in the building, furnish.
ed them at the expense Of the
State, kept an elegant table, feed
thirteen members of their respee.
tive families, hired and fed five
servants, enjoyed free access to
the dairy, tho barn and barn yard;
the fruits Of field, orchard, vineyard
and garden, all of which were
property ofthO State, and run the
States laundry al libitem. For
these special privileges, unautho-
rized by any law on our statute
books, they have not heretofore
paid one cent. And in the enjoy.
ment OF these extraordinary priv
ileges vouchsaved by custom and
tolerated by an over lenient Board
of Trustees, they expended each
year more than s3500.00, thus
making their services cost the tax
payers over $4,000 annually when
the Law says it shall be only s3000
1.-THE wool hat boys" in the last
Legislature, mildly but firmly de.
clared this sort of thing should net
be permitted in future, and they
had their way about it, the Vicks-
burg C. H. and all the other ring
organs to the contrary, notwith.
standing.
At the Deaf and Dumb Institute,
the superintendent's family is dom.
ieilsd, and although the school is
kept up only nine oalandar months
in the year, the distinguished head
of that establishment has hereto
fore kept the States servants err.
ployed and drawn rations from the
States commissary for himself and
family during the three months
vacation, just the same as he did in
term time. OF course he had no
right to do so at any time, but the
custom ofpermitting State officers
to pIunder the public treasury, +:
supposed by some very clever peo
pie to have warranted such action
"The wool hat boys" demurred
to this proposition and "what a
howl went up from that quarter
my oountrymen."
The Blind Asylum has. includ
ing the Superintendent and Matron
nine officers and teachers and a,
shown by a letter signed "W. S
Langley" now in our possession
six servants in regular employ.
The average attendance at tins
Institution is less than thirty pu
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