Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-02
Teachers and Wages.
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all the taxes which they now pay, to-
gether with all me burdens incident
ally resulting from the present meth
DDS OF taxation which now fall upon
them"
They would continue to pay rent:
but whine they now pay botn rent and
taxes they would then pay rent alone.
With which of the two classes re-
ferred to are the teachers of this coun-
ty in sympathy? To appropriate rent
to public uses by means of taxation
would permit the abolition of all the
taxation which now presses so heav-
lily upon labor and capital This
would enormously increase the pro-
duction of wealth by the removal of
restrictions and by adding to the in
centives to production.
1t would increase the production of
wealth by throwing open natural OPP
portunities Would utterly destroy
the land monopoly by making the
holding of land Improbable to any but
the user With the natural opportuni-
oties of employment thrown open to
all, the natural spectacle of willing
men seeking employment could not be
witnessed.
There would be no need of combina-
tions to raise wages, for wages, instead
of tending to the lowest point at which
laborers can live, would tend to the
highest point which employers can pay
and thus instead of getting but a mere
fraction of his earnings. the workman
would get the full return Of his labor.
21,97S teachers found employment in
our common schools in 1878 whose
average wages were not sufficient to
board, clothe and furnish them with
books and otherwise provide for them
according to the demands of their no.
lie profession. We believe that they
have just reasons for demanding high
er wages And the very fact that
their wages are not being increased
shows that there Is a social wrong
existing somewhere. And we believe
there is.
But fer every social wrong there is
a social remedy. THIS social evil, this
enemy to the progress of our common
schools, this cause of low wages and
hard times which "condems the pro-
ducer Of wealth to poverty and pampers
the non-producer in luxury, which
rears the tenement house with the
palace, plants the brothel behind the
church and compels us to build pris-
ons as we open new schOols"-is our
present system of taxation! Which
breeds monopoly, fosters trusts, Great
ing milionaires on the one hand and
tramps on the other.
| cordially invite the teachers of
Ohio to give this their careful atten-
tlon, being aware of the fact that con-
siderable prejudice exists, and that
tho "Ginula ~ 1,ta-
But we believe they are of those who
do not fully understand or are unwill-
Ing to give to it more careful inves-
tigatlon. We rejoice to see that it
numbers among its advocates some of
the wisest-statesmen, financiers,
philanthropists, journalists, editors,
ETC., men and women Of refinement
and world wide influence.
Why should you deem 1T unpopular
when it is both a social and a fiscal re-
'orm, and worthy of cur confidence
md esteem?
The settlement of Ohio was by men I
Who had witnessed the advantages of !
common schools. In their local gov /
,rnment they provided fer public in ,
Their influence was prom
nent in the Territorial Legislature,
md in 1902, when q Constitutional !
for Ohio had been called,
0phriam Cutler, son of one of the or
ginal founders of the Marietta Colony
vas chiefly instrumental in securing a /
lause in the organic law of our state
Hhicn required legislative encourage
nent of the means Of education.
The first public allusiOn to education
n Ohio is found in an Grafton by Sol
mon Drown, at Marietta in 1889. on
he 7th of April in cOmmemoration of
he commencement of the settlement
ormed by the Ohio Company, April
l7SS
By the act of April 80, 1902, Congress
uthoriZed the organization of the
tate of Ohio, and among other in
ucements for "a provision exempting
lnds sold by the United States from
lXation for period of five years,
ropesed that the section number
Xteen, in every township and were
lch sections had been sold, granted
r disposed of, o1her lands equivalent
hereto and most contiguous to the
eme, shall be granted to such town
nip for the use of schools"
Congress, by act of March 8, 1903
ranted the one-thirtysixth of the !
JniCed States Military District"
Virginia Military District" and
Western Reserve lands for the use of
Jlools. In 1924, Congress by act
ranted one-thirtysiXth of the "Mor- ]
yian Lands" for school purposes. t
nese lands We're sold by the state, the s
'oceeds thereof creating a fund which I
e state receives as a perpetual loan, .
I'd upon which is paid by the state ..
annual interest or per cent.
We will now give the first law enact {
by the General Assembly of Chic !
regard to the fund arising from the t
'oceeds of section sixteen 20. L.; Vol. I
P. 61, Ch. 49,
That the lands granted for :
e support of schools in the several
lrts of the state shall be let. on lease q
r the purpose of improving the same C
Id thereby rendering them produc- a
We that the profits arising therefrom \
ay be applied to the support of (
'hools, according to the true intent &
I'd meaning of the original donation a
Id the several laws of the United
ates, reserving, granting and ap- {
the same" j
But on Feb. 26, 1924, both branches :
our Legislature concurred in a very !
aborate memorial to Congress, ask
g the passage of law declaring the J
ithority of the State of Ohio to sell q
e school lands and invest the pro-
eds with a State guarantee of an in [
me of six per cent upon the amount,
be applied to the use OF schools. .