The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-12
AducatiOn is us foIIOWs
$1,000 90 S4.S46.

This anrOrtionment is simply an out
rage The whites pay at least four
fifths Of the taxes and it costs more to
run their schools and under white rule
they usually received their Just part of
the school frnd. as apportioned under
the old school law.
Now the MANAGEMENT of their schools
is in the hands of q county board 1.-TWO
whites and one black and n sure"visor
(recently removed who pay according to
the tax list only $7.63 taxes.
This board has anportioned over 30
per cent more to colored than TO white
schools and have elected three Of the
five school committee (colored) in every
township in thp county hut two. Forty
school committeeman in the county and
twenty-five colOred and eighteen white.
Mr w. x .IocchSen. ndito~ of The
WASHINGTON Progress. is in the city.
There has boon - l,.r, 1o'n~o+ior ho','
from al that section looking after the
ovster LEGISLATION In his last paper Mr..
Jackson printe L ~ from Nv = :
Mann. of Swan Quarter ''who has the
interest of all the people at heart and
WI also has IT, II en- confidence" Mr.
w ~. thus gives b., IS
"FhFt.-T am c:,,yt' IT, le"iel ,;ion
that aholshes the taking of oysters by
dredging. think that TO allow the TAX
ing of oysters only with ordinary hand
tonGs will virtually destroy what now
promises to he great industry 1t
would mean that the oyster packing
houses and canning factories would
have to look for their supplies to
ranch of labor h.; IN ! say, and 7Irh
vast appears % ~ the best of no
sons. is wholly inadequate TO furnish
them With the factories and packing
houses closed the only possible market
vtrl% he tho & nQ'ni ten other States.
and this demanl My arises iT1l
certain contingencies. IL wit: che
failure of supply of oysters
in Chesareake Bay which creates
demand for our oysters for planting, or
such severe weather in the oyster region
North of us that they have to send 70
us for enough to suprlement the de-
mand they are unable to fiji This is at
all Tires an uncertain demand. and even
when there is a demand our oystermen
do not, / am informed. realize 9S mrch
for their oysters as they do when the
local hacking houses and factories are in
operation.
Second While the above is true it
must not be overlooked that the oyster
tongers have q Crievonce. and it IS this:
There is complaint thNt the Law of 1897
orencd the sound. with the exception Of
Bay River and Carteret county to ipdis-
crminate dredging Now | believe if
the Legislature would cOn6ne the dredg-
ing TO the arbitrary boundaries fixed by
the oyster law of 1895 that such an
amendment would 90 far to settle one Of
the grounds of dissatisfaction now eX-
listing Our oystermen believe with rea-
son. that the dredging of oysters should
he confined to the portions of the Sound
that are too deep or too exposed to per-
NIT of the taking Of oysters by the or
binary hand tones. The dred0as shorn
he kept out of the creeks and bays In
Swan Quarter Bay and Rose Bay and
Germanton Pay for instance / am in
formed that the channel of these bays is
deep enough to permit the dredging I'M
der the present law. but that the dredge
boats cannot operate, in the channels
alone, they are so narrow, but that in
operating they are necessarily compelled
to run up in shoal water in order to
have room for lacking and thus are EN-
abled to violate the law. and take oys
tiers that the tongers can easily get and
that should be left exclusively to them.
II dredging is allowed, I think it should
he restricted 10 the boundaries fixed by
the 1905 oyster law.
"Third:-A commission should be nam
ed that is not specially interested or
identified with either the DREDGING or
arti-dredging factions. That will do the
work contemplated by the law, that is
harmonic the factions, show them their
mutual independence on each other. md
endenyor to develop an industry that
promises more to the material prosperity
of Eastern North Carolina than any
other, not excepting its lumber or truck
ing possibilities. In this work of har-
monizing these ut present an+oron'stic
elements. the Industrial associations IN
the cities of Washington, Newbern. Eli
zaheth City could. think exert a hene-
fetal influence end a commission that is
broad enoUgh TO soc the possibilities. and
attempt at least development of this i'm
portant portion of the states resources
is s9dlv nppdp1