Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-11-04
rnE COUNTY MON SCHOOL.


editor of the Columbus Advocate
makes q very silly plea for the
county high school in Saturdays
paper, and also attacks your cor
respondent indecently for defend
ing the taxpayers against the Col
umbus steal. This measly cucane-
70 does not give single reason
why we should vote an additional
ten thousand dollars per annum
onto the already overloaded tax
payer.
He says: "The high schools of
Galena, Baxter, Weir City and
Scammon will keep right ON, just
the same" Why! you poor, simple
minded idiot, do you have the
cheek to say the citizens OF the
thriving towns of the county may
continue their high schools at their
own expense and also tax them
selves to keep up ten thousand
dollar high school in the altogether
dead and decaying town of Colum'
bus. The Dalton boys never made
so infamous a proposition in all
their brilliant career of crime, aud
even General Weyler would repudi-
ate il.
The law itself 10 a travesty on
Justice, and no one but a set OF
highway robbers would have
passed it. Why not make the coun-
" clothe and feed the entire Col.
umbus community! You can I'M
doubleday get them to plead the
pauper act, and make of the city
one big poor house. If you have a
spark of manhood, come out from
under the bed and vote against the
infamy.
The Advocate editor says peggy
don't like Columbus" Right you
are, my baby. Peggy don't like
Columbus q id little bit, and
Peggy is personally responsible
for everything she says. Ever
since our county records were de-
stroyed by some of the leading cit
izens of Columbus and the crime
winked at by other leading citizens
Peggy has had no use for Column
bus. Then the people voted for a
court house to cost $4,000, and for
which the taxpayers were bled to
the tune of 100000, and Peggy
didn't like you some more. Your
whining mendicants were continu-
ally begging for a Jail building
which we finally voted for in order
to get bridge at Lowell. and now
we don't get the bridge after all.
No! Peggy isn't particularly fond
of Columbus.
The poor pettifoggers running
around the county begging from
school house 10 school house for
the hard-earned money of the peo.
pie are only making cabaiIo euro g
of themselves. The proposition
will be voted down by handsome
majority. aud those fellows who
are trying TO force the measure
down our throats will have lost
their manhood before election day
and should from henceforth wear
divided skirts.
Our language is too poor in ad'
ljective to give this subject ade'
quate attention. To say it is rob
berry and steal 10 to touch 1t toe
lightly. Just as the religious mas
sacres of old were committed in the
name of Christ-this "hold up
comes at us under the guise o.
higher education" The bandits
are trying to work on the feelings
of our sensitive and high minded
he women. They infer that We can
have higher education except il
Columbus and at the expense o
the county. In the same breath thu
sly dog says we may also have on
own high schools. but We must pa!
, for them out of our own pockets.
Peggy is Disguised with Colum
r bus.
, see the editor of the ScammoI
. Miner also advocates voting for tn
r high school, but in another column
he also advocates Aguinaldo, and
. suppose he 10 well paid for uphold
r ing both. Outside of Columbus
: doubt If there is an intelligent ma
r who believes the high school prop
E osition should carry. / don't bs
lieve the proposition comes befor
!, the people legally. The law say
: one-third of the electors must pet
ton before a vote can be ordered
E Does any sane person believe one
: third the electors petitioned for II
J. I would like to see the names. The
r dare not show them. The Who'll
: thing is Shiny. It's a lie and
y fraud, a steal and robbery.
E The Advocate says Charley Smit
E of the NEWS ought to have bette
E judgment and better business sens
E than to permit Peggy to attack tn
{ beggarly scheme. So far as kno'
! Charley Smith is the only newsps
per man in the county who has ha
J. the moral courage and commo
! honesty to permit the use of hi
columns to the public in deuouut
I'll A.