Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-01-05
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According to the secretary's re-
port. there is quite serplus In the
State Treasury. This surplus was
all paid by the man who raised the
grub and BY NO ONE ELSE.
There is going to be big effort by
the standing collar gentry to have
the bigger part of this surplus do1
mated to colleges, where the clod-
hopper's children will receive none
OF the advantages of the proceeds
of their labor as taxpayers. Those
colleges charge for tuition same as
if no appropriation had been given
and if the tuition was free, board
and clothing and washing, etc., will
prohibit nlne-tenths of farmers
children WHO NEED IT MOST
and not able to take advantage OF
attending said colleges. The only
ones who get advantage OF a college
education is the one who is able to
educate his children at any school
in the United States and pay tor It.
| The State University at Knox,
| vile is making a desperate effort to
have the legislature pass a law al
lowing it $4,000 year for all
time to come. Suppose they sue
ceed in getting the allowance, how
many of you codhoppers will get
your children educated in the Uni.
versity2
If Knoxville gets her S5O,OOO,
other colleges will put in plea for a
: similar sum for their institutions.
Ye country pumpkins who pay all
this sum, sit down and figure out
3 how many teachers $4,000 will
. pay for teaching country school
4 at fair salary for nine months in
, the year. Add this sum or mum
!. Der OF schools to those you have
HERETOFORE HAD, and you
will see how many more poor rag
ged children can enter school, and
get an education that will never see
!. the university of Knoxville Get
T up a petition OF all the hayseeds
: coal diggers and POOR WHITE
n TRASH Gas some are dubbed by
# the city aristocracy) send the peti'
n tion to the members OF the legis
t lature to give any overplus in th'
treasury to the poor children OF th'
rural districts where it is mos
needed, instead of to the rich whit
are already able without state ait
to educate their children, or if tn
~ legislators fee it their duty not t.
slight the university, let them pr
rate the finds to all children
10 school age alike. This will let tn
d. rural tow head get little bette
d. chance than if the lump sum c
to $4,000 should be dumped on on
. school. Kick like blazes agains
,r. any such partiality to thes
nd colleges. They are no better tina
tie our country log cabins in the bac
~ woods.
~ According to an article in I'll
.. Knoxville Journal taken from tt
i'm census reports of 1890, there we
1880, ,94S inhabitants in Tenness'
out of which there were 30O,930
literate. Out of population
ed l.10S, ,629 white there were 1878
MS .u
IaI from 10 years up who could neitI
'ue er read nor write. Of the 800
is white voters there were 81, 1896 wi
ng cou d not read nor write.
es: These same illlterates are Il
ar ar. ones who by their sweat in Il
lie. fields VIEWING THE SrER
ed END OF A MULE all day are t
ones who paid all taxes both gre
q. and small to build up the colleg
to of the country, and pay the tuiti
mr. of the "biled" shirt fraternity.
7 have no i'll will against the colleq
he or those who patronize them, ye
om do feel that there is great injusti
done those who are in the great
need of any public funds that C
"a be appropriated for public scht
for purposes
neu neu feel very much like using CT
words when l think of the way {
taxpayers are treated. Now y
old fellows who make conduct
of your boys, who pull the
rope at the hind end of mt