Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-29

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paid by the state and towns, with the in
come of the Huntington fund, the United
States deposit money. rent of lands, and
other sources than the districts, amounts
annually to more than S3jO,OO0. This is
more than half the expenses of the
schools Ii is two-thrds Of all that is
paid the teachers of the state.
The difficulty in this system of taxation,
extending nearly through a century, is,
that while it was a laudable attempt to
remedy the inequality of school taxation,
it was a gross violation of the American
principle, no taxation without representa-
ton, which means that the taxpayer shall
be represented not only in the assessment
of the tax, but in the expenditure of the
tax. But, as we have seen, there is paid
annually more than S3jO,OOO for the
schools 10y the state and towns and neither
has any direct representation in the eX-
penditure of the money.
cannot recall another instance i'm vii
lage, town, county, state or national af-
fairs where the taxpayer is not represent
ed i'll both the assessment and expenditure
of the tan To illustrate: The grand list
of Brattleboro is 500, and that of the
village of Brattleboro is S3j,30l. Hence
the village pays more than three-fourths
of the i per cent tax. There are eleven
scbooI districts in tbis town In tho divi.
sion of The income from fine Huntington
fund and five nor conf state tav nancy
this VILLAGE would receive only one-aIeveniL
of the first half The other half woulJ
be divided on the attendance. In the di-
vision Of the money received from the y
per cent town tax, this village receives one
eleventh Of the first $4,000 or $500.
The grand list of Rockinrham is S37.-
500 The GRAND list of Fellows Fail. is
S27.q44 There are II districts in that
town The result is tbat tbe villapa NAYS
about tbree-fourths of the Il per cent tax.
and receives hazel, in tbe division of fine
first half only abnut onp-twolftb This is
ON the suruosition that the VILLAGE charters
do moi affect the GENERAL law. The Grand
list of Jamaica !, S32Ss l.. ana that of
the largest district is sl32O32 There are
IL districts The result Il, that the LARGEST
district NAYS 40 nerrent nf fine uublic mon
cy and receives back apain only about )
Der cent of the first half In Wilmington
there are II districts. and the grand list of
the largest is more than half of that of the
town. Hence one district NAYS moro than
80 per cent and receives back only : per
cent of the first half one district in New
ldllt DAYS Der tPlll ana receives hdtk ~
ner cent in the first division one district
in Townsbend pavs 40 per cent and re-
ceiyes hack 12l ner cent i'm first division.
Ono DISTRICT in Grafton na,,e IN nor cont
and raceivas hocl, orl,, II nov cont ore
district in Wbitinobom navs more than ~
ner cent and receives hack less than : nor
cent One district in Londonderry navs
70 ner cent and receives hazel, only q ner
cent in tn. first half I uiubt avtond his
Investigation throucb This Countv and tho
state and if would undoubtedly show that
900 districts in tLe state nav much the
LARGER mart of the l. Nor cent tav and that
tbe first half is as a rule divided eouaIlv
AMONG 33-D districts The result is tbat
no one is satisfied with this method of sup-
porting the schools The small districts
are not. because of the inequality that still
fingers to faint the taxation, and because
OF the dlsproportion OF educational privll-
eyes; the large districts are not, because
they have little or nothing to do IN snap
ing the character OF the schools that they
assist so largely III supporting.
he philosophy OF heather home, with
OUT the ana OF divine revelation rose TO
the height of discerning that nothing Is
ever eXpedlent that is not Just Nothing
Is strong that Is not Just, Sald Charles
sumner, Justice satisfies everybody,
SAID Emerson. And Shakspere;
Right and wrong,
between whose endless jar justice res'ueS'
Il we would eliminate those 'ehuieSs
Jars that nave SO olleh during llle century
sweep through our schooI system ltdNlllS
httle Dut legal chaos pehlhu' II we
"oulu nave s'rohS' permanent anu pro-
STesSlNe system a system 'lat wiz prove
sal satisfactory 10 all system '!a' 'he con
sllIutlon approves ana the pupllc Soou ue-
1lailus' we must puma Oh justice, "hlcn j.
"ou-S'eI ana uliaSsaiIaoie' me Town
system VIII result ") III equaI 'aAd'ioii
III the lo"lls' Cb) III larger schools Win
longer terms ana nelIeI teacheIs' Nc) anu
III equal euucaIlollal privileges
Combination of Small schools.
There are more than 800 school districts
in his state that oupht 10 he abolished al
once OF these schools The supervisor
of Oranpe comfy reported that there
were Ar in that comfy in 1890 There
are 400 schools in the state with less
than II nupils in each. and 14l of these
have less than six in each know of one
district in which there is only one child of
school age That district draws S36 from
the state treasury and about the same
amount from the town. thereby iniurinp
every district in the state to that extent.
| have heard of several districts of two or
three nupils. that by hiring them taught i'm
other schools are making money out of
anything is NO longer sat argaaO s 'S it is that