The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-07-15
MAKING TEACHERS TIE COAT

MAhlNO lEASnENS lHE OOAl
WE LEARN from some of the county
teachers that W. D. Bratton, of the
County School Board, is telling the tea
cheers that their salaries cannot be paid
because of the injunction which has
been gotten out against the County
Commissioners" Any teacher, who is
stupid enough to believe such a fool
statement as that, is hardly fit for a
school room. At the same time the
statement itself only shows to what
contemplate lengths the superintendent
of the Public Schools will go in his tf-
fort to subserve narrow partisan pLr-
the limitations of his mentality, he
MUST know that the injunction which
we have secured against the County
Commissioners has nothing whatever to
do with the payment of the teachers
overdue salaries.
l. In the first place the injunction was
not gotten out until July LIST, and at that
time the teachers salaries had been
long overdue WHY HADN'T THEY
BEEN PAID LONG BEFORE ANY
QUESTION OF AN INJUNCTION HAD
BEEN RAISED AT ALL?
2. In the second place, our injunction
is one forbidding the County Commission
ers TO BORROW MONEY IN THE FU-
TURE. 1t has nothing in the world to
do with this matter of the teach
ers' salaries. Their salaries should
the past year-the fiscal year which
closed on June 30, 1911, before our IN
junction had been put in force at ali.
WHY WERE THESE SALARIES NOT
PAID OUT OF THE LAST YEARS
SCHOOL FUND? THE MONEY WAS
SET ASIDE IN THE LEVY FOR SCHOOL
PURPOSES. WHAT BECAME OF IT!
WHY WAS 1T NOT USED FOR THE
PURPOSE FOR WHICH 1T WAS LEV
led? Superintendent Bratton says that
the teachers cannot be paid in full until
this years taxes are collected. Let US
say that the teachers salaries have 10
business being paid out Of this years
taxes. Their salaries were levied for
have paid last years salaries. If the
teachers have not been paid out of last
years funds, as they should have been,
then it is the teachers business to find
out why Are the teachers to be made
the goat" of stupid county management
and political trickery?
g. In the third place, while on this
subject we want to say that our injunc-
tion has nothing to do with the pay
ment of bills in any department of the
county government. 1t only prohibits
THE BORROWING OF MONEY. II %
the business of the County Commission
ers to make sufficient levy and SUI
ficient tax rate, so that they can pay
tucii lt6lllI utDLS. IL llty ItluSt W
do this, or if they mismanuge Inc
county's fiscal affairs, so that they find
themselves contracting debts which they
cannot pay without unlawfully borrow
ing, then THAT Is THE COMMISSION on
Frs FAULT, and the blame must rest
with them. We propose 10 stand on the
propriety of our injunction unless the
Court dissolves it, and if the people of
this county have no more sense than 10
be fooled by the silly talk that is going
forth from the CrotheIs camp, they will
have to be SO fooled-that is all
4. One last word. The Cecil Democrat
says this countys finances were never in
better shape than they are today. Sup
erintendent Bratton says I'VE can't pay
our bills because Williams has enjoined
us from BORROWING MONEY" Now,
take your choice-if there is any choice
to be found in rotten apples.