The Globe-republican., 1894-03-23
w. G. SHINN, Manager.
FRIDAY, MARCH @. 1884.
The city Election.

ten shall be abolished. The wise men
who have been managing our city affairs
are patient and long suffering. they
have for years endured the expense of
the schools, even though the superirten-
dent has had the audacity to express
himself freely against the joints. thereby
attacking the foundation of our liberties
and threatening to cut off those subter-
ranean fountains of inspiration which
have aided to cqualize the distribution
of wages of those who labor among these
who do not, and caused many noses to
blossom as the rose.
As we remar ked before, the gamblers
and joint keepers and their friends. who
hold the controlling power in our city
government, are patient and long suffer-
ing men, but there comes time when
patience ceases to be a virtue! These
men might have meekly endured to the
end of time the attempts to undermine
personal liberty, had it not been diseev.
cred that the young boys and girls of our
city schools were being innoculated with
the doctrine that using forty-rod whisky.
as beverage is detrimental to health and
morals, that gambling is demoralizing,
and that laws on those subjects ought to
be obeyed, the same as any others.
Even after this astounding fact became
known, the powers that be were willing
to let the schools continue, provided a
change be made in the office Of super
intendent, so as to have different code of
morals Intoxicated into the rising gener-
alton.
In fact, an,eminent city official at one
time denied any hostile feeling to the
schools in the following terse language:
$50 - with the public schools, it's
Webb's scalp we are AFTER.
In justice to the official above men,
toned, we Will explain that he did not
mean to cOnsign the public schools to
that warm region. from whence no trav-
eller has ever returned, but it was simply
his epigrammatic manner of expressing
Il willingness to let the schools alone if
Webb could be squelched.
In order to keep down strife tina: might
injure our schools, Prof. Webb decided
NOT to be candidate for the position of
superintendent after the expiration of the
present term. and caused notice of the
fact to be published.
Then the gentlemen who are conduct
ing our joints and gambling houses cast
about them for a man to take charge of
cur schools, who would train up the
children in accordance with their adj
vanced ideas on personal liberty, and not
instill into those tender minds the moss
back notions of Solomon that swine is a
mocker and strong drink is raging, nor
that puritan principle that laws against
gambling were right, and ought to be
enforced.
But SO far no school teacher possessing
such qualifications has been found.
Even in the face of this exasperating
tendency of education to .diverge from
the Dodge City idea on sumptuary and
sporting matters, the gentlemen who
manipulate such things have not fully
agreed among themselves to abolish our
school system altogether. Some of them
are content to merely suspend the schools
Al, ha -
keep the children abreast of the times
and in harmony with the ruling powers
here in Dodge City.
Children will become voters after a
while, hence it behooves the jointists and
gamblers to look pretty sharply after
educational matters.
Once more We remark that our friends,
the jointists and gamblers, are a patient
and long suffering class of people, but
there is limit to what they will stand,
ana if education is 70 be carried GA in
such manner as to threaten their business
in future years, then,it becomes question
of the survival of the ,Attest.
Many OF our people would be pleased
to have both joints and schools to run in
Dodge City, and out ofdeference to their
wishes the jointists have permitted the
schools to run SO far. but the time has
come when the two interests clash, and
one or the other must 60 under.
The city council has no direct super
vision over the school system Of our city,
but it has power to greatly hamper the
work of education by indirect methods.
For instance, 1t passes upon the tax levy
made by the board for school purposes.
Last year the levy made by the beard
was somewhat reduced by the city COME
Gil. Some parties wanted . big redue-
ton, which would have been fatal to the
success of the present term. This was
opposed by majority Of the council. led
by W. J. Fitzgerald, and the reduction