The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-04

Try tne!e are not less tndn tO, OUU
teachers which number added 20
"a, 900, gives 4ii, QUO as the total
number OF teachers in public and
private schools for the year.
RECEIPTS To3 PUBLIC School PUR-
POSES.
For the school year ending with
June, lsv4, the receipts from ali
sources for the support OF public
schools amounted $3.50. 600, 900.
About s per cent OF these receipts
are derived from permanent school
funds. l. per cent. from State taxes,
o. per cent. from local taxes. and :
per cent from all other sources The
number OF Taxpayers tOteyery 100
persons OF school population yari 5
greatly, being five times as many in
some local ties as in others In the
whole | nited States there are 81 tax
payers TO provide the means OF edu-
cation for every 100 children OF school
age. In the South Central States,
~hOwever, there are only 90 adult
males 10 provide the means for edu.
eating 100 children, while in the
States OF the Western division there
are lj7 adult males 20 every 100
children. In south Carolina the
number OF adult males for 100 chill
dren is only 55 and 33 OF them are
colored. In Montana there are 275
adult males for every 100 children of
school age. All other conditions be.
ing equal each tax payer in South
Carolina has TO pay five times as
much as a Montana tax payer To du-
plicate the educatiOpa conditions.
The curious inequalities or school
taxation are shown in the TACT that
Montana raises So. s5 per tax payer
which furnishes $l6.0- for each child
OF school age, but Texas raises larger
sum (6. 56) per taxpayer, but has, as
result, only 81. 4o for each child Of
school age, and each dollar paid in
Montana goes as far in effective work
in supporting the public schools as
81 goes in Texas.
IN THE SOUTH.
The progress OF public education
among the colored people Of the
South, where there are, as yet, Cnly
few adults with minimum of
property, is very gratifying. Count
ing white and black taxpayers they
raise .or school purposes alone, one
half what is raised at the North per
taxpayer, and they realize from one
third TO one-ffth Of what the North
has per child Of scnool age, and,
further, they enroll nearly as large a
proportion Of their school population
ds the North does, and have school
year two thirds as long as that in the
North. The day is not distant when
all the Southern States will make
ample provision by local taxation for
better support OF public schools. In
Massachusetts, 9S per cent Of the
ample schoO! revenues are raised by
what is virtually local and voluntary
taxation. Every dollar put into pub
lie instruction comes back TO the
State increased hundred fold in the
added intelligence and efficiency
brought TO il by the people.
EXPENDITURES.
During the year ending June 30,
1891, the expenditures for public
school purI oseS were:
For buildings, furniture, etc........s 25.s5 ,36l
tOr sularleb JJ,iJl,JoO
For otner school expenses .......... 25,l57, ,272
Total. .........,'...............S i46,eOO, l63
In the year ending June, 1894, the
expenditures were.
For buildings furniture, etc ........S 350.0,0C0
For salaries u ,IoO,OOJ
For other school expenses .......... 2sJ0J,O00
Iotal, ...................'...,S loo, i5u,cOU
The expenditure per capita OF pop
ulation for the whole country was
$40, and for each pupil Of the aver