The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-04
IRON 1.-THE jersey CTR NEWS,,
OF OcTOBER 20.
FOES Of
THE SCHOOLS
Allan Benny Exposes the
Record Of the Repub-
lican Party in
This State.
VOORHEES, VICIOUS SPEECH
Evening Journal" Nailed to
the Cross by Facts From
the History Of This
Years Legislature.
SCHOOL BILLS AND THEIR FOES
Rights of the Teachers and
Republican Office Crab
bing--The Veto and
the Morgue.
SCHOOL BILLS AND THEIR FOES

Lie WCi SAO-
To the Editor of THE Jersey City News
/ sent to the editor of the Evening
Journal a few days ago, a letter cor
recting some injurious ~utterances IN one
of his articles. / asked its publication as
! a mere matter of fair play. He refused u
space in his paper, just printing a para
graph aging it was a very good letter,
but too long for his columns
1t was not TOO long. IT was too true
/ Perhaps you will lay it before the pubic
and thus correct the Observation-Disclosures
which the journal creates-seemingly
with intention and design.
Editor Evening Journal
Your editorial in last nights journal
on .4rhe Teachers Fund is before me.
beg to say that the plank in reference
to this fund in the Democratic platform
| contains no false statement; II was not
inserted out Of ..wanton m-aliciousness
nor by a person who is no friend OF the
teachers nor Of their fund.
This plank, as well as the plank relating
to the public schools, was written by me
and urged before the Convention Com
mittee on Platform, without the KNOW
edge or suggestion of, or consultation
with any other persons. These two plahKs
being SO closely related should be treated
as one.
/ consider myself a friend Of the teach
ers. the Teachers Retirement Funa,
and the public school system, and have
an abiding faith that all three will pros
Per in the near future as they never rave
done before. They will prosper
The teachers BY having their salaries
Increased to an amount commensurate
With the services they perform and
through . due appreciation, by an, az
present. unappreciating public, OF the
fact that a teacher, next TO the parent
/ is the strongest influence for good or EVIL
in the community, and is something more
than a mere machine at 50 mucn per
yea.
The Teachers Retirement Fund by
being made a State institution to the ex-
tent that the State shall care for 1t with
out expense to the fund.
The pubic school system by being adj
ysneed from its present position near
the foot of the school systems Of the
! Northern States. 10 its proper place -
the most thorough and eIncient system =
tire country and surpassed by none olhef
on earth, thereby removing the dlsgTace
when at present attaches to our state
because of the fact chat IN the CITY 81
Newark nearly 1000 children between the
aaes of five and twelve attend no sehooi,
while in Jersey City there are more emu
( dren of school age not attending schoVl
than fail to attend school IN the Wtoie
of Germany, other cities in TINS state
making lust about as poor d showing.
i know that the Republican party is all
wrong on the issues here mentioned.
When the eaehers attempted to have
tn State Treasurer care for the tuna,
that official. on his salary OF S6,pVJ per
wear could not see his way clear to 90 II,
he must have another clerk at $500 per
year to attend to it, Ihe clerk tWitn tHe
| salary was provided by the Leslsiaturs,
though he failed to disapproye a measure
passed at the same session tas5 Wlnterst
FLOWING an expenditure OF $lo.0D Ior re,
pairs to the Assembly aehnea
nv tho Republican Assemblyn1an VINO
| fathered the bill to mean embarrassing
the ceiling and erecting scaffolding there
for .
anxious to build school houses Tor IFS
children, then running in the streets LOT
lack of school room, presented q PHI 20
ing it to issue bonds for school purposes.
It was attacked by your Repuollcan
members mot one Democrat voting
against it, and just squeezed thronsn
With the necessary t~hirty-one votes in
the Republican House; YET that bill goW
p law saved both Jersey City and New
ark from QlSRTdCS lWO AOntii 19Os ~
! hitting those two cities to issue bonds
for school purposes after measures passed
purposely for their benerit failed them.
House Bill No. 1872 in the last Legis-
lature Ca Democratic measure), which re-
CURED all cities to furnish ample school
| Accommodation for their children, a
civ Superintendents of Schools in the
| State-not one disapproved OF it--advo-
| Gated by the State Superintendent with
| might and main. endorsed by practically
the whole press and by persons interested
in the public schools everywhere, Was
| attacked by the Republican leader OF the
delegation from Essex county, IN me As
| sembly. and by a trick almost defeated.
1t finally passed the House with four
| dissenting votes-all Republiean-and was
retired by a Republican President of the
senafe to the committee presided over by
the Republican Senator from Essex, VINO
refused even q hearing upon Il, declined
to report the bin to the senate kepi 4
| the last night of the session. and reported
it then under pressure only Co nave II
! killed. by the Republican President re-
fusing to allow it to go before the Senate
And now to show that your Republican
party had a reason for opposing al school
malice aforethought. comes your cam
didate for Governor, declaring In hts
speech at Boonton, reported in your issue
of the 18th inst.:-
They tthe Democrats) favor the
public school system, more room ana
better facilities for the education OF
the children. Every child of school
age must have a seat is their cry.
Why don't they make demand on the
people who have to do with the
schools? DO they not know that the
school question is not d State matter.
but that it is controlled by the local
authorities appointed or elected for
that purpose.
Your candidate, the Governor, knows
and you. Mr.. Editor, are aware that Jer-
sew city. Newark Bayonne and almost
every other city IN the State is p6werless
to issue a dollars worth Of bonds for
schoo1 purposes and utterly unable 70
its Legislature and Governor, gives the
necessary permission, though all the
authorities and all the inhabitants Of