The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1907-03-13

the ideal citizen they need prize fight
er with fist like ham of meat, a
stroke like the piston rod of a mogul
engine, and a build like burglar proof
safe. The only trouble is, that prize
fighter would not consider the salary
and is, therefore, not available.
Plenty of men in Rutherford and
Cleveland counties would chreefully pay
$40 to see Jeffries and Fitzsimmons
swat each other that would raise wall
of mortal agony if they were taxed
three more mills on the hundred dollars
worth to enhance the cause of popular
education.
In former communication | adverted
to fact that each child in the Common
wealth of Kentucky has set apart for
education an annual fund of $340 per
capita. Be it further known, that it is
an inviolate fund for any other purpose.
Not cent of it can be used for buying
wood or building houses, and yet fuel
is furnished and buildings are erected.
The houses are as we'll heated, and the
] buildings are as well equipped as they
are in North Carolina. The State of
North Carolina, we are proud to say,
has no established church, and if any
of our religious bodies, however ortho-
dox, were to ask the State to build a
house of worship and provide fuel for
warming the congregation, a righteous
howl of Indignation would be raised,
, and your Uncle Corn Cracker would BE-
howler-in-chief Under present condi
tions he is vigorous and pronounced
shrieker against taking the pittance set
apart to pay teachers for any such pur-
poses. He thinks that the building
fund is better than what we had before
its benefcent provisions. Ihave known
many districts to do without the money
for one and sometimes two terms of
school to build house. This was an
outrage on children of school age in that
section. Then there is too much graft
in everything paid for by public money.
Many of those houses were built with
no regard to light or ventilation, at an
outrageous cost. Some man would get
contract and build hovel that didn't
face the sun, moon. earth, nor the sew
en- stars.
Then. in the name Of sweet carity he
would furnish wood. In communities
where WOOD was about all they had,
and could b. bought for IS cents per
load, he would put down 80 cubic feet
instead of 128, and charge two dollars a
cord. If any remonstrance was raised
by teacher whom he was careful to see
worked from eight to nine hours per day
for $40 per month, let teacher and pay
him SO for board, he called for resigna-
ton of the biggity and ungracious
wretch. And if the ungrateful loafer
suggested such an audacious idea as
people voting tax to supplement the
school fund he wanted the migrate to
die without benefit of clergy?
Why is it that the fruits of the tariff
never 90 into the school fund? / am
"agin'' high protective tariff, any
way, but if it is a necessary evil, and
promotes prosperity, why does none of it
find it's way into the Golfers of the poor
devil who prepares the future ministers,
doctors, lawyers, statesmen and cap
tains of industry? The men of Ruther-
ford county, except myself and Grip
pie or two, have abandoned the calling
of teaching free schools. They saw
that laying running at $35 per month.
laying brick at $50 to SIS per month,
manipulating jacksaw plane at $50
per month, and just one man to cuss
him, beat teaching at $2s per month
four months in the year and every
body cussing him. Some of them are
operating merry-go-rounds, others yet
are at the lucrative callings above me