The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-08-18
Partisanship Killed the Local Tax.


Raleigh News ana ODSeIfeI.
The defeat of the local school
tax almost everywhere is the most {
rebuke of the gang now {
in control of the government OF
the State could have been admin
tered. 1t shows that the people
are SO disguised with the prostltu-
ton of public service and public
education by petty partisan bosses
that they almost solidly voted
down a proposition that, as an IN
dependent measure, commended
itself to their judgment.
1t will be said that the result of
this election shows that the people
of North Carolina are not In favor
of taxation for patb lice e5Fglcatlon.
It has no such meaning. 1t means
that the people of North Carolina
were unwilling to tax themselves
to put money in the hands OF
gang of men who are wanting IN
competency and in character. One
of the ablest and wisest advocates
of public education in the Eastern
part of the State, when asked by
his neighbors what to do with rel
erence to the election, said: "Do
not vote a dollar for any purpose
that has to 60 in the hands of the
men who now mismanage our af-
fairs" The strongest friends OF
local taxation, after it was seen
that wherever the pie-eating Flu
sionists had the power they were
4 electing incompetent politicians to
4 manage the schools, advised the
fpeople to vote down the PROPOSE
ton in all such communities.
: The election of incompetent and
venal men on school boards; the
} fragrant contempt for the advice OF
: all educators except those who
= could be used to further polltlca
E ends; the giving to negro commit
teemen a voice in the management
? of white schools; and the CONVEX
t sion of the public educational sys
1 tenn into political machine IL
: most of the counties-these thing
S outraged and disguised the peopl
d so that they had no liberation TO
local tax, however we'll 1T woul
q have worked when controlled b
+ good men.
l. There was large element tina
le opposed the tax because at thi
g time they did not feel able to pa
le more taxes for any purpose, bu
the overwhelming majority agains
ID the proposition was due to the fax
% that the people have become
es disguised with the work of the La
tn Legislature that they only want
s. chance to repudiate everything en-
at anating from it.. 1t was lmposs
In BILE tie secure the interest of peop
IL who had good officials, becau
n they said the school law had BET
a, so badly altered that they did NJ
ma know how it would work, and TIL
On wanted nothing to do with al
,ir product of the last Legislature.
by The result teaches that there
,p- no hope for improvement in O
lie, educational system until the pc
re- pie drive out the crowd that M
as profane the temple, and comm
the schools and the other affai
he of the State to the hands of t
'iff intelligence, virtue and PATRIOTS
fa- of the State. It ought to- be- q
it's apparent to the good n1en W
as were persuaded to leave the pa1
Ter of the white man that their du
is to make an end of co-operati
tly with men who have not scrupl
even to sacrifice the highest int
we est of the little children to b,
to partisan ends, Men who. will
the this-and the party in power l
vas been guilty of it-are the wo
hat enemies of the Commonwealth
her and they ought to be driven out
all hazards.
He The duty of the men who HI
the at heart the education os the p
lily. pie is plain. They rhHst. la
OBJ with all other good people to
and in power the honest and intellig
ded white citizenship of the State.
own reform, no progress, no elevat
om- is possible from the gang that 1
lin disgraces the State by its mism
, is agement of every department
old government. When the pee
heir have driven them out with wi
nv cords, then an appeal for be
ton educational methods will be he
ltes and needed.
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