St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-15
STILL EyADING FACTS.

1t appears to be useless to attempt
to persuade the Pioneer Press to dis
cuss any issue fairly and without eva
sion of it's prominent and principal
points. This has been true in the mat
ter Of reducing the city expenditures,
where repeated solicitation has failed
to draw from 1t any explanation why
a refusal to accept a salary reduction
by one city official makes him a man
beneath contempt, while a refusal
on the part of any other city official
leaves him an honorable and public
this issue so clear that nobody can
fail to see 1t, and the persistent evasion
Of the Pioneer Press is a sufficient
comment for the public upon it's course
Exactly the same policy it is now
pursuing with reference to the financial
situation, present and prospective, Of
the public schools of st. Paul 1t re-
iterated, in an article yesterday morn
ing, it's stale statement of the finances
Of the schools for 1895, and the esti-
mate for 1896. From the footings, it
argues that the schools of ST. Paul
would have. under the arrangement
proposed, all the money that they need.
This is done in the face Of the fact
that the G e published, on Jan. Z,
a complete tabulated statement by the
secretary Of the school board, and a
further editorial explanation thereof,
which showed exactly where the trou-
BILE lay, and how the injury done to
the schools would be irreparable. That
statement, we may assume, is not open
to attack, because the Pioneer Press
has not assailed a line or a word Of it.
AS In the other case, 1t has simply
reiterated that which has no essen
tial bearing on the practical situation,
and evaded the actual issue.
We call the attention Of the public
before which the Pioneer Press IS
silent. One Of these Is that it places
in all its tables an item Of $S2, 900 cash
balance in the school fund on the 1st
day Of January, although it knows
that there were outstanding at that
time obligations for the month Of De-
cember amounting to not far from
$4,000. This is not inconsistent in
one who holds that prom
Use by the city to pay million dol
lars one year after date does not con-
stftute a debt, but is only IAN ad-
vance check" whatever that may be.
But we know no business concern
which, in closing it's accounts at the
end Of a fiscal year, and comparing it's
assets and liabilities, would think that
it made an honest statement if it
showed to its stockholders a balance OF
profit from which was excluded all
consideration of $4,000 of bills paw
able outstanding.
This is the first point The next is.
as the G b explained a week ago
that the time when the school fund
will be absolutely insufficient for school
purposes. and when the schools of this
city must either be closed or be shorn
of their most excellent and. necessary
features, is not the year 1896, but the
school year 1897. This, also, the Pho
neer Press meets by refusing to con-
slider it at all. In the Globe of
Jan. Z, both the editorial statement and
the statement of Secretary Angel an
nounced that, in all probability. the
school year 1895, which ends on the
91st day Of next July, would find the
school treasury well supplied. The
sufficiency of revenue for 1896 on the
present basis of efficiency, which has
been questioned by nobody, is reiter
ated by the Pioneer Press for no other
reason, that we can see, than to blind
the houghtless to the deficit which
must occur in the year 1897 AS we
stated week ago, the certain items
Of the school revenue for 1897 are as
follows:
one mill county tax. .................. $123 900
Balance of tax ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 30 600
State apportlonment ................... $4,000
TotaI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 28 600
If the council next year should re-
peat the proposed allowance of e1o5 mn