The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-03

not having a child Of his own to send
through school. he could not help but
feel for the children Of others. AS our
future citizenship depends on the boys
and girls now, he urged that We put
them in clean, healthful surroundings
in their school life. He said he I'M
derstood one doctor in the house was
attending to patients who had been az
flicted because OF the stair climbing
proposition. The amount in dollars
and cents which the proposed issue
would cost was SO absurdly small by
the side Of the children, he urged the
affirmative vote next Tuesday.
Fuller Issues Challenge.
Any person who could produce an
argument other than that Of the dol
lar and cent kind against the issue was
challenged by DR.. Frank NJ. Fuller to
do SO. He gave the opposition a
chance to speak or to answer him in
the newspapers. If we put our
schools on a money basis, then we
must vote down the ISSUE" DR.. Fuller
said. That was the only argument he
had heard against the question, he
said. He doubted. he said, If anybody
would say anything against the idea
except that it would cost more in
taxes.
I'VE have elected school board to
govern our schools. We have faith in
our board, and we put confidence in
their judgment. Yet what good is
their judgment il we in ignorance Of
the good of the schools, go to the polls
and defeat Just what they are asking
for? They are asking for decent
schools, yet every time they do. we sit
in Judgment and vote against the
proposition. see by an article in to-
nights Gate City that If man pays
Ave dollars school tax and If the bond
issue carries, he will pay fifty cents
more. II he is going to kick on this,
let him stay away from the ten cent
movies five times, and he will pay for
that school that is asked for.
Conditions Are Changing.
"The Garfield school is not clean,
nor sanitary and it has stood there
long time. Do you suppose any OF you
men would live in the same conditions
today that you or your grandfathers
lived in fifty years ago? Did you re-
fuse water and sewers when the
chance came? How many Of you men
would maintain in your homes the
same conditions as existed in 1876?
W So qAu tS
taxes you want to send your children
to old buildings which haven't
changed except for a few makeshifts
in the last thirty years.
Don't make this sectional issue.
would like to see the Wells, Carey
and Terrence schools torn down and
clean, sanitary, ventilated buildings
replacing them. Not just four walls
and a roof
Sinner. Not All Present.
The Rev. r. w. Lilley said he
iudged the sinners were not all pres
ent. Rev. Lilley declared he was for
the issue because he thought more OF
his bow than he did of dollar. He
thought IL taxes could be called by
some other name there would not ne
such a howl raised.
Rev. Lillsy drew a word picture OF
a disaster such as might happen IN
any of the old buildings in the city.
He said he had son in the Garfield
building, and wished many a time he
were not there.
Nothing is too good for our boys
and girls" he declared. 1T is not
something to put UP dollar in one
hand, and q boy or girl in the other
And the man who thinks more OF real
estate or dollars, has no soul, ana
the quicker he shuffles off the mortal
coil the better it will be for the com
munity In list of thirty towns
you'll find Keokuk at the foot when 1t
comes to school taxes. And the Eel
lows who are doing the most kicking
ara the ones who never paid cent
Of taxes in their lives" he declared.
That the city cannot afford not to
have the best building possible Tor
Its youth. the speaker declared. Not
dollars and cents but ths atmosphere
in which the child is being educated
should be considered, Rev. Lilley de-
Fclared.
Swan Replies to Fuller.
Frank Swan said he thought he
could reply to DR.. Fuller. He said
the seventh ward Of the city is with
out a school, The one on the south
si6e to which the seventh warders
had to send their children was all