The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-30
namden and the High school Question

tice, as established principles, demand should be recognized and taken into
 account. And, by the way, let me beg those who are interested in this discus
 sion not to be biased by our friends use
 of these abstract terms as a signature
 to his article. It is like a lawyers
 calling the attention of jury to
 clients youth and beauty when he
 wishes to create ptbjudice in her favor.
 In regard to "the fear of litigation" we are willing to admit that. Ut would have been good thing for the taxpayers of New Haven if whole
 some fear of litigation had prevent ed the city from trying to force Yale
 university to pay taxes on property
 which the law exempted. Truth and
 Justice" declares that this unjust law
 interferes with the sovereignty of the
 Hamden town meeting" May I ask
 whether he considers a town meeting,
 say in New Haven, for instance, the tribunal which is most competent to
 decide as to the support and mainte- nance of high schools?
 Further: Before this unrighteous law went on the statute book doubtless many widow or poor farmer if he thought his son was worth an educa- tion, paid for 1t like self-respec Yankee instead of having his \. ,L,n he has. no claims" This sentence will repay careful study-especialy the doubtless x if he thought" It raises some interesting points. There are many cases where boy is worth an education but the parents are not ahe to payf for it, and there are others where the parents are able but do not considerg the children worth an education when they can work on the farm and help them amass wealth. l could instance a case of this sort. Does the State say Let those only at- tend school whose parents can pay for it like self-respecting Yankees?" No! It says they must attend school until a. certain age and it provides an officer to see that the parent does not keep the child at work to support him in idleness and vice. And to the older children it says, We will help you get a higher education if you prove your self worthy" It is very evident that Truth and Justice" belongs to the class who do not believe in higher ed ucation being provided for any child at the expense of the taxpayers, for his would apply equally well to New Haven or any other city.
 As for the Hamden children being ad- mitted to Boardman school without ex- whatever may have been the case at first, it has been positively | stated to me that in the last two years only those who passed the city examin- ation were given certificates
 Your correspondent misunderstands | me about the roads. My intention was | to compare with the city boulevards | and park drives, which are used almost | exclusively by the wealthier classes for | their own pleasure. I did not allude to | highways and residence streets.
 On the point of injustice to the pro- | prietor of Hamden hall, I do not beg | the question, but I now deny the in- justice. As the town did not wish to |
  passed a vote to pay the tuition of any | child coming within the provisions of this Unjust iaw," whose parents or guardian should elect to have attend the Hamden hall, thus giving his school an equal chance with the New Haven high school, and four children took advantage of this offer. Others would have done so but were not qualified This year there are three This vote still stands, and If there is any injus- tice it is toward Hamden taxpayers who are being taxed to pay MT. Ray mond $50 a year per pupil when 1t would be cheaper for the town to send them to the high school and receive the State allowance.
 I understand that Mr Raymond and his wife are most excellent teachers, but why should his school have the benefit of a protective or prohibitive tariff? Why should it not stand or fall 1n it's merits as do the city private schools? The very fact that the town nas made it free to those who are eligi- ole to go to the New Haven high school 1t once dsposes of this injustice
 And now as to the assertion that IleIc tlle SCHbOl dutllOIllltS pIpleT to .ax New Haven taxpayers for the ben lift of citizens of neighboring towns" He ought to know very we'll that one If the causes of the abnormally high cost of tuition in Boardman was the prejudice which at first existed in favor of Hillhouse, thus leaving Boardman with very few pupils. Now, if the 3oardman school with a full comple- nent of teachers but the rooms only lalf filled with pupils, was costing arge amount per pupil, it is very evil lent that three or four more pupils in ,ach room would not very greatly in- ,rease the aggregate expense, but on he contrary would be almost clear profit to the city. If the New Haven nigh schools were turning away their 'wn pupils to accommodate outsiders lis argument would have more force
 Another point. Truth and Justice hinks that we Hamdenites. are shirk- ng our duties as self-respecting tax ,ayers. what does he think of the New, daveners who secured the erection of a ostly Normal school in the city, and he instruction, entirely at State ex- 'ense, of a large number of young peo- ,le, who, if his theories hod good hOuld have their tuition maid hv self Z