Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-19
WHO RoBBED THE GEoRGIA TEACHERS

WHO ROBBED- Id6 GEOHGlA IEANHGT~O|
The reactionary organs in the state shedding
profuse crocodile and pretending depe
the fact that the teachers cannot be paid as soon as hs
salaries due
The teachers themselves must fact that they
being used for political capital when their interests
lately sacrificed by these partisan In oraeF
to curry favor with "he old soldier vote"
Unfortunately large part of these teachers being women
e the an nG & old in
partisan ends the system of simple justice by wn
teachers and old soldiers alike paid their respective
spends were due was down and the teachers were
sacrificed on the altar of cheap politics ,,, -.
Under the system which had been established the pen,
sons of the old soldiers paid quarterly This enabled
the the teachers practically every dollar Que
of year At the time the veter'
being paid years pensions in advance were
paid quarterly advance large part of these old veterans
who neither dense selfish as the men VINO
using them would have suppose glad to have
their pensions quarterly in advance instead OF for the entire
year in advance Many OF them had daughters VINO were
earning scanty living and they willing to make slight
sacrifice order the teachers from still greater sac
rihce.
But the crocodies would have it They not
have the teachers paid practically every dollar due
them before the end OF the The teachers couldn't v?
empty cry raised that the old soldiers being
pensions The politicians created artificial sentiment against
the quarterly payment OF pensions They struck down e
paid together during the in which their salary
and pensions respectively due
And that they have used the old sodes-now that
they have made it impossible to the teachers as their
fell duehey weeping great gobs of hypocrica
tears 0 on GvEN WHILE THEY CLAIM THAT THE
STATES EXPENDITURES EXCEED ITS RESOURCES. THEY
NESS BY ISSUING BONDS WITH WHICH TO MEET CUR
RENT EXPENSES, INSTEAD OF PURSUING THAT INTEL
LIGENT SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTION BY WHICH THE OBlI
CATIONS TO TEACHERS AND SOLDIERS ALIKE COULD BE
MET WITHOUT INCONVENIENCE OR INJUSTICE TO ANY
ONE.
Having committed blunder which little short of
crime they adding insult injury by making catspaw
the teachers We repeat that the teachers should fling their
sympathy back in their faces and ask these mesrvng poll
tcians why they did do little sympathetic weeping
when good why these cheap parsans did
to the support of the teachers when the equitable
system which soldiers and teachers alike being
paid as spend DUE about to be struck down.
1t is the bazen piece of impotence in the political
history of the The under which the
being paid quarterly had been established Every
knows any hardship the veterans 1t
confined to the while the transition being made
plain that pensions amounted to when
they paid annually than when they paid quarterly
that paid their annual nstallment
they had to before they any and
that once established maered nothing all they
paid quarterly BY plan could they at their cake and have
it, toe.
For political buncombe partisan reaconaries struck
down just when the hardship and just
when the teachers getting relief
Now they weep for the teachers!
Shame upon them!
These partisans been driven the wall their
treasury status contention They have been forced confess
that if the closed up like those Of
business the state would be two million
dollars to the good They long ago, because
expert accountant had told them Finally exposed they
have the familiar cry that after all the real
trouble simply the injustice of postponing the OF
They reapng what they sowed and pretend
because they have been robbed of the
reaconaries themselves destroyed
shame where is thy blush!