Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-10-28
VOTE A0IN 1T.

on Nov. z is one of the most bare.
faced robberies ever perpe,ratcd on
any community. should have let
the thing gone by without. "a word
had not the city of Columbus sent
some of her most astuie attorneys
down here TO gull the ignorant and
ilatter the innocent into voting (, r
the Infamous steal.
just think, gentle reader, what
this grab means, aud how il will
affect Us. Four or five towns. of
this county already have high
schools of their own which are cup
ported by the cities in which they
exist. Now. Columbus asks Ms TO
close our high schools and pay our
taxes into their greedy Golfers 20
that they may run one big high
school at the expense of the county.
Are we prepared to give up our
own high school aud be forced To
send our children TO Columbus TO
he bled by their avaricious board
ing house keepers. Brothers aud
sisters, is not this most damnable
proposition:
And again! The proposition calls
for board of six trustees at two
dollars n day TO sit in Columbus
with their feet on their desks at The
expense Of the taxpayers. Six more
dead beats supported by the coun-
ty! 1t won't do! We are now pay.
ing lot OF Farmers" four times as
much az they could earn on the
farm in salaries to hold down the
county offices. We should lop Off
"a whole lot of the supernunerary
sap suckers now in Columbus rath-
er than add to the list.
Ga,ena. Weir. Scammon, Column
bus and Baxter all have high
school departments, eligible 20 any
scholar who wishes 10 enter The adj
vanccd grades. The farmers chill
dren living near any OF these towns
can attend these schools and live nj
home, but if we destroy these
schools in order 10 build up the
sailor boarding houses OF Colum.
bus all our children must be sent
there to receive the higher branches.
Knowing the IMMORAL character Of
Columbus, with its three open sa-
looms. its dance halls, bootleggers
and it's ;hirty.tive attorneys-gt-law
il there single reader OF the Bax
ter NEWS who will vote for the Col
umbus high school! 1t won't do!
Several times since the law was
passed Baxter Springs offered the
county our city hall building for
high school purposes and this
building is worth over $4,000. III
the infamy OF county high school
is to be perpetrated on the taxpay-
ers of Cherokee county. Baxter
Springs is the ouly logical place
for such an institution. We have
the best site. The only town that has
pure water parks. springs AND
streams. We have the most moral
community, and free building.
costing the county nothing. Should
the high school come TO Baxter
Springs there would be no necessi
~ for board of dead bea; trustees
We have the only effective school
board in existence. Our school
board is not only capable OF run
ming high school, but they can
run the county or state If necessary.
They ask no salary or emolumenis;
all they want is elbow room and n
few parliamentary rules. We are
proud of our school board and we
cheerfully throw them in along
with the city hall as an induce
ment To bring the high school to
Baxter Springs.
In conclusion. the Columbus EN-
issaries made the statement that
the tax for high school would not
exceed two and quarter mills.
Sec. s of Art III of the law says nine
mills may be raised for the build
ing and running expenses. 1t you
don't believe this you can easily
find the law in Vol. of the Revised
Statutes, page ga. / do not think
the attorneys who are travelling
around the county advocating the
proposition intend to deceive
the voters, but perhaps they have
been misinformed. The tax author
lied is nine mills, or nearly one
cent on the dollar of your assessed
valuation. Figure it out your self
my hen-headed advocate of higher
educational advantages and see II
you want to add nine mills to your
heavy tax bill.
Once more: We have avery nice
little local college just starting out
with favorable prospect of being
a grand institution aud one we will
all be proud of. Our citizens have
done very little so far to support
this commendable undertaking, but
rather than vote niue mills to the
Columbus robbery had we not bet
ter show little generosity to our
own establishment If the citizens
of Columbus had the moral cour-