The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-02-03

ono Class matter.
DO NOT TAKE AWAY THIS SMALL CRUMB
OF BENEFIT.
1t would be gratifying to US,
could we approve of all that our
Representatives did in the legis-
lature, especially if they intro
duced and advocated measures
which represent the views Of
their constituents, but when we
are confronted with what We re-
gard q misrepresentation OF our
people in the introduction OF
measures, contrary to our ideas
of the principles of justice and
gratitude, we must protest with
earnestness. On Wednesday OF
last week Representative Lam
ham is reported as having intro
duced a bill to repeal the law
requiring beneficiary cadets to
teach two years" Section 1878
of the Civil Code provides, that
beneficiary cadets 'sshall be re-
ouirec to teach, after graduation
for two years in the free public
schools" :" and sections 1879, 1880,
1881. and 1882 make provisions
in detail, as to matrlculatlon
where fled. bond, and with
Ynom fled. amount, condition,
.iolation, infancy nor statute of
limitation to be a bar, duty Of
Board Of Visitors, duty Of the
Superintendent of Education,
certificate Of release, Of discharge
and. cancellation Of bond.
The South Carolina Military
Academy is a grand institution
calculated to do, and it has done,
maeni6cent work for the upbuil-
ding of the educational interests
of the State; liberal appropria-
tions from the treasury are made
every year, and this money
>comes out OF the pockets Of the
people, who therefore have a
Just right to expect from this in
stitution large aid in furnishing
our free public schools with
teachers. In order to foster our
free public school system, the
people are taxed to clothe, feed,
care, and educate young men,
whose parents are not financially
able to educationally fit their sons
for the battle Of life. Our former
lawmakers approaching the val
ne of education for the maintain
ance OF our civilization, made a
wise provision, whereby the
State can aid materially in sup
plying our free public schools
with intelligent teachers, that
the children of those who cannot
afford the means, may receive
an elementary education t
home. The State offers young
men beneficiary cadetships, and
contracts with them to feed,
clothe, educate. and care for
their physical welfare, for four
years, and only requires in return,
that benefciaries shall teach IN
our free public schools for a pc
riod of two years after they have
graduated. These teachers are
not required to teach without
compensation-they receive as
much pay as those who are not
similarly bound.
The cadet not only signs a
pledge of honor, that he will
teach the required time, after
the State has given him his di-
ploma, but he is advertised of
the conditions by the law, which
says he must also ':fle a bond IN
a penal sum sufficient to cover
the maintenance and education
that may be expended in his be-
half, and conditioned for the
faithful performance by said ca
det of his matriculation agree
ment to teach for two years af-
ter graduation in the free public
schools Of the State as provided
by law"
It is a notorious fact that some
of these graduates have not CON-
piled with their agreement, and
their bonds were not sued upon
either, but be it said to the dis
credit of such graduates who re-
ceived from the State four years
Of training and maintenance at
public expense, that failure to
carry out their pledge of honor,
made to their benefactor, is a
brand of reproach that will cling
to them the rest of their lives;
they may move among their fel-
lows, apparently in esteem, but
that esteem is only superficial,
and wherever their conduct to-
wards the State is known, they
will be regarded as having re-
ceiyed their education under
false promise and pretences.
Were a man to obtain merchan-
disc from a merchant under
a promise to pay at some stated
time, and did not make good his
promise, although able to do SO:
he would be rated as unworthy
o. trust and would be warned