The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-10-28
sTANLEys ARITHMETIC

STANLEYS ARITHMETIC
Shows That the Savings ON School Books
Win Soon Equal the school Fund.
The Hon. w. Eugene Stanley, Re
publican candidate for governor,
while speaking in Hamilton Hall at
his Topeka meeting, said among
other things that the Republican
party had given to Kansas the best
public school system in the world.
He pointed with pride. to the fact
that there were now in the state
5000 school houses, $4,000 school
teachers and 10000 pupils of school
age; also to the magnificent perma-
nent school fund, consisting of more
than six millions of dollars, which
had been established by the Repub-
hcan party. In concluding his
thought upon this subject he said:
'What does 50 cents on q school
book amount to when compared to
all these things which have been ac-
complished by the Republicanparty?''
Is it not a fact that the school
houses OF Kansas were not built by
the Republican party, but by the tax
payers OF the various school districts
of the state? The IL, 900 school teach
ers of Kansas are distributed among
the various political parties of the
state, and, strange as it may seem to
Mr.. Stanley, the male teachers of the
state, as a rule, consider it humili-
ating and unmanly upon their part
to underbid those of the opposite
sex.
The permanent school fund is de-
rived from the sale of public LANDS
which were granted to the state by
Democratic Federal Congress. and
the Republican party is entitled to
no credit for having it, unless it can
be claimed upon the ground that Re-
publican public officials are entitled
to credit for not having apprOpri-
ated to their own private uses this
magnificent legacy given by the Fed
eral government.
The most remarkable thing about
the whole statement is Mr.. Stanley's
logic. He almost goes into ecstacy
over our ''magnificent school fund, +"
while sneering at the pittance of so
cents on a school book. Probably
he is not aware of the fact that our
magnificent school fund" furnishes
only 80 cents per capita per annum
for each of the SOC, 900 school children,
which he enormously claims as a re-
suit of Republican rule in Kansas,
while so cents a school book would
amount upon an average to at least
81 per capita. According to Mr..
Stanley's own mathematical prOpo-
sitiOn, the text book law would save
to the parents of the state the sum
of one million dollars per annum,
and in six years this would amount
to six million dollars, q sum equal to
the permanent school fund, which it
has required thirty-seven years to
accumulate.
Mr.. Stanley's statement concern
ing the saving of the text book law
can have but one logical interpreta-
ton, that is, that he is opposed to
any legislation that interferes with
his ideas of the inherent prerOgative
OF all trusts to rob the public. He
must have meant for the audience to
infer that, should he be elected gov
ernOr, he would use his influence to
restore the old order of things in
Kansas, SO the people would not be
burdened with cheap text books;
shippers would not be compelled to
pay reduced charges at the Kansas
City stock yards; the miners of the
state would not have to accept cash
instead of script for their wages;
the railroads would not be forced to
reduce freight rates to different points
in the state, and foreign insurance
would not be compelled
to meet their obligations according
to theprovisiOns of thepolicies issued
by them, all of which things have
been brought about by the present
state administration, which he
brands as ga blight that had it's
origin in hard times and hot winds
a plague sent upon the people to ag-
gravate the sores brought upon them
by their misfortunes."