The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-28
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f1uences which it is not our province
to Judge. the new assistant has been
appointed to some other school, and
we remain on the same footing as last
year, although fully entitled by num-
bers and grade of teaching to rank at
least even With the Guion Academy cf
ThibOdauX. II tie boa1d decides to
ignore its previous resolution, and
leave the Lnckpnrt school us consti-
tuted now, it would be but justice to
increase somewhat the salary given to
its teachers, as they certainly do more
work than any in the parish.
But instead of trying to raise the
standard of teachers by increased COM
p%ensation, some one seems to be bent
in trlttering away the school money.
One instance will suffice to show the
truth of our statement. Three and =
half miles from Lockport is the Brearx
school, thus the children living halfway
would have no more than II miles to
come to either schools, and of course
it is evident that all the children do
not live exactly half way between the
two moreover at the same distance
on the ether side of the Bayou is the
Matthews school. This would seem to
n rational mind quite a sufficiencv of
school facilities within such a limited
distance.
However, whether On account of pc
titions or some other reasons to us
unknown, the board DEGREES to go to
the expense of building at one mile
from here, the Elliot school, for which
we can see no earthly use. If things
go on this way, the time is not far
distant when each man on the BAYOU
will have a school house ON his place.
To talk about the rain, high water,
roads well-nigh impossible, would be
only a repetition Of what your paper
has mentioned again and again. We
can see but n way out of bad roads
and overflows it is to increase the
drainage tax, otherwise abolish it al
together. As it is, it reminds us OF
the Dutchman who, wishing to bobtsil
his little dog, thought it would suffer
less if he cut only a small piece each
day Of course the dog died, and the
moral of this story is quite applicable
to the present drainage tax.
The produce tax has met with very
little opposition compared with the
bad feeling AID suffering caused by the
acreage tax. In a former communities.
ton we have shown some OF its evi
effects, and here we again repeat EN-.
phatically that it ia an unjust tax
Many and many an acre is not wortl
the amount of the tax, but us it is easy
to fad the owners of such crawfisl
holes, they must pay. We personally
know several families, unfortunat.
owners of sucl, mud holes, earnin.
hardly enough to keep starvationaway
! that do not know where or how to ge.
the first cent for this tax. The only
just appointment of this tax worllt
be a graded amount based on the valu.
of the lands subject to it.
We are at last in a fair way to hav,
Don a Jail here, a building that lal
been long wanted, specially in time.
like the present, when a ride to Thib
odaux is anything but pleasant. W,
understand that our fellow citizen, G
Abribat, Jr.. secured the contract. ant
from what we know of Ills activity
vim and energy, it will not be Ion:
before the Jail be erected.
LAFOURCHE.