The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-09-25

of the Sanders administration in prc
vlding for the public schools of tn
State, instead of a prospective defici
in the general fund there would be
prospective surplus. The prospective
deficit is 100000 to 100000. The pros
pective surplus would be $4,000 t,
100000.
The current school fund is produce.
by a fixed part of the total levee 0
state taxes. It cannot be used other
wise than for the schools. The inten
ton OF the Constitution was that all O
it be used for the common schools. tn.
primary grades in which the founda
lions of an education are laid by the
teaching OF reading, writing, arithmetic
and so forth. The Sanders administra
ton took 100000 from that fund fol
parish high schools and agricultural
high schools. The former are for the
nnspecialized continuance of the pri
mary courses. The latter specialize In
scientific farming.
The Hall administration appropriated
$4,000 for high schools, agricultural
high schools, domestic science high
schools, the consolidation of country
schools and vocational training in New
Orleans. This $4,000 was not taken
from the common schools, the primary
grades. 1t was appropriated out of the
general fund. Had the policy of the
Sanders administration been followed,
this $4,000 would have overlapped
the prospective deficit of 100000 to
100000 by $4,000 to 100000.
The howl of the Holy Alliance, of
which the Sanders itself, Ruff Pleasant
and Lee Thomas are the chief protag-
onists, Is that deficit is evidence of
extravaganza. Avoidance of the record
appears to be their preference and
misleading quotation of parts of the
record, separating text from content
to make a false appearance, is the
specially of the Sanders and the salient
feature of his attack on the Hall ad-
mlnistration in his roaration at Baton
Rouge at the time of the extra session
of 1915. Repeated invitations to point
out the extravagant expenditures have
met with silence, except for doleful
references to the deficit"
The deficit in prospect, as indicated,
has been brought about by full COM
pliance with Governor Halls platform
pledge in relation to the States educa-
tional institutions and the success Of
the tax dodgers in obtaining the defeat
of three attempts to put the States
fiscal system on a sound basis. The
platform pledge was: eve favor the
liberal support of all the educational
and charitable institutions of the State
and the full maintenance of it's levee
system" The first attempt to supply
money by forcing the tax dodgers to
pay up was defeated in 1912 with the
aid OF secret slush fund and false
count, the latter described by the ward
boss organs as clerical error" The
second was in 1914, when the same
men who fought the call of a conven-
ton in the General Assembly used
every legislative device at their COM
mand to defeat the proposed tax and
assessment measures. The third was
the proposal of a constitutional con-
vention, which the voters In the par
ishes rejected as the result of wide
spread misrepresentation, systemati-
cally and persistently spread in the
face of authentic denials.
Acts SO of 1908 and 80 of 1910 were
the Sanders general appropriation acts.
They gave total of s203, 900 to high
schools and agricultural high schools
for the four years of the Sanders ad-
These appropriations
were under the head Of: "Out of the
current school fund"
Acts 1876 and 1856 of 1912 and Act 1T
OF 1914 contain the appropriations by |
the Hall administration for parish high
schools, agricultural high schools do.
nestle science high schools, consolida,
ton of country schools and vocational
schools in the Parish of Orleans. The
first two were special appropriation
acts, the money to come from the
general fund The last was the general
appropriation bill of 1914, which car
ried the appropriations indicated under
the head of: "Out of the general fund"
The division of the $500, 900 appropriat.
ed by the Hall administration "Out of
the general fund" was 100000 for I
parish high schools, $25O,O0O for agri-
high schools and domestic
science schools, $4,000 for the con.
'olidation of-country schools and $20,.
700 for vocational schools in New 1
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