The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-08-23
More About School Books.

More About School Books.
crawford County Mirrors "The DIFF
ference in the price OF the books sofa
by the school book trust to Missouri
and the same books sold In Kansas Is
g Os per pupil There are 49, GOO
scbool-children 10 Missouri, and this
snoe sum amounts to sl'5sS,2oO'
which the parents Of the school chill
dren pay the Jefferson City school
book commission for which W. j.
stoue Is responsible"
Il is not true that the same books
are used 10 Kansas as in Missouri
II is not true that there is the same
number Of books in the missouri
adoption and in the Kansas adoption
1T is not true That Missouri pays more
for the sixteen books that cores
pond to the same number Of books o.
Similar titles in the Kansas adoption
lon the. contrary the prices are So 40
ia MisssarI and $6.67 10 Kansas.
According to the Mirror, all the
school children in Missouri, or rather
taHtbe children Of school ags buy
eaeb Year All the BOOKS used IA all
the nine grades of the grammar school
and tie four grades Of the high
school. Imagine some little fellow
just starting to school. He goes to
the book store and bays aaHthe books
he will need for THE next thirteen
wears and toiisn YEARLY home with
them-some fifty volumes. The next
year be. has forgotten. what be did
with the books and he buys another
set } for thiFEteen. years including the
one be has finished; and he continues
Ito do this every year for thirteen
years. According to the MlrrOr'every
other little chump id the state does
the same thing until the world itself
cannot contain the books. And the
worst of it is that it is all due to w.
j, Stone, Perhaps the Mirror man
is the expert accountant" Of the
Globe Democrat who finds discrep-
ancies 10 the state auditors books
ranging from SC 900 600 TO s44 OOO.-
900, and who can ot r member from
week u week wha lis last finding
was.
Wi the republican papers cease TO
pu6lisi tics things when they find
out that they are not true? Not at
all! 7 They will reaash th3 same
charges and add that Mr. Stone is
responsible for the eruption of Mount
Pelee and for the drouth last summer.
Campaign Lies.
One OF the earliest Of the republic
can campaign lieswas about shooting
the school fund. " They said thatla
democratic legislature had taken up
the schoolfuud by issuing worthless,
upeopStitutional certificates 10 place
Of the securities in which the fund
had previously bean Invested, End that
they had concealed the transaction
from the people,
The answer is complete. First, the
republican states Of Ohio, Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin, have done
the same thing aud no one has ever
thought Of unconstltutionality there.
Second, nearly all the republicans
in the Legislature at the time voted
for the school fund certificates, among
them Whybark and Higbee, whom
the republicans have just nominated
for judges Of the supreme court, who
say that they considered the certifi-
Gates legal at the time when they
voted for their issue and that if they
are called TO pass upon the matter in
judicial capacity they will pronounce
them so.
Why do the republican county pa
pers continue to repeat this lieP
Because t is easier to repsst it than
to explain the votes of Why bark and
Higbee and Blodgett and Headlee
and Bittinger and O'Baunon and
Wade and Pettijohn and Swanger and
Odneal and Russell and Tubbs and
Brewster AMI KeRnish and Mott and
scores of other republicans.