Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-25
Dfssngen uous and Demogogic


When the Tribune takes sensible
position on any question, or is fair to
contemporary, the sky will fall and We
shall catch lsrks. There are two leading
impulses in that journal-the first,
Doodle; the second, demsgogism. The
HERALD gave q clear and impartial state
ment of the variant sentiment on the
school bonds problem, and in doing 80 it
inadvertently fell into an error, which
was corrected in it's issue of yesterday
morning, as to the amount which will be
required for the erection of the High
School, the sum having been placed by us
at $4,000. Instead it is 100000. But
that sum is for the building alone, and
to reduce it's cost to that figure it must be
erected on the city's lot on the corner Of
Sand and CASTELAR, streets. As this site
is utterly inadmissible, the lot must be
sold or traded, and to get an eligible site
will require a money 'boot" that will
bring the sum up to nearly the figure we
stated. The Tribune, with its usual
feeble mendacity, endeavors to create
the impression that the HERALD has put
itself in an attitude OF hostility to the
higher branches of education. This is a
proposition compounded in almost equal
portions offalsehood and malice. In the
editorial which the Tribune has garbled
We simply aimed to describe the differ
ent phases of public sentiment as to
these bonds. We do not ordinarily like
to quote Ourselves, but are justified in
doing 80 in this instance. The extent to
which the Tribune can falsify is shown
by q com mparison of the following extract
from the HERALD of the 23d inst. with
the Tribuae's lying perversion of it:
There is another class who do not go
30 far as this, but who believe that if the
ornamental and advanced branches are
provided for from the public purse it
should only be after the most ample pro-
visions have been made for instructiDg
the children of the people in the ele-
mentary branches. This class, and the
HERALD desires to be included in the
Dumber, would glady gee noble buildings,
in the shape Of universities and high
sch nils, erected from the esuperabundance
of the public revenue. These people,
however. are sverse, at a time when our
rapidly growing school population makes
It 20 difficult to provide elementary in
structoD, to seeing 30 large sum de.
voted to q structure which would be
devoted to the higher lines of study.
If there could be clearer expression
of devotion to all forms of education
than is contained in the foregoing we ad-
init that we do not know how to put it
into words.
There is an overwhelming sentiment
this community in favor of all forms
of education that would carry almost any
bond proposition in the interest of ex-
panded educational facilities, but the
sentiment of the people is even more
overwhelmingly in favor of the common
schools. Universities and High Schools
are all very well, but the common school
il a SINE qua non. The fact that the
amount sought to be appropriated for the
High School is a smaller sum than was
supposed, and that the corner of CASTELAR,
and Sand streets is not a cast-iron
location, will unquestionably have
q favorable influence upon the
issue of the election. That al.
most universal American sentiment
that insists upon placing the basis
of sound education within ths reach of
everyone by no means sanctions un-
timely extravaganza in providing for the
ornamental branches of instruction or
for ornate buildings when the question is
qualified by possibly resultant lack of
facilities for primary Instruction.