Year: 1879

to all of this town, and it will come to that eventually.

 Conformist, in his article of June 25th said that perverted the statutes, and in his last article he undertakes to show that did per vert the statutes, and quotes the same sec ton of the statutes that did. Now, want to give the whole section so that all may judge for themselves whether or not he mas shown that I perverted the statutes. 1ou will find it under the head of Support of Pup lie Schools, Sec. 15. "If any district man. ~ tains 8 school of higher order than IS re- quired by law, and thereby incurs increased expense for it's school, or ifany district shall continue it's school for longer time than IS provided for at the expense of the town ac- cording to the lst Sec of chapter 2d, or if any district shall expend for teachers wages or other purposes sum which the school Vlsl- tors and selectmen deem unnecessary and ex- travagant, the cost of such school, above the sum received by such district from the town ah<.U be paid 6y C ta1 laid 6g said district. Nothing, however in this title is to be con- strued as forbidding the payment of the ad- ditional expenses of continuing any school longer than the time required by law, by vol unrsry contribution, or by tuition charges"

 This is the entire section of the law. Now please look to Conformist's quotation of this law and you will see that he left out the words s'The cost of such school abooe the sum rsceived by such district from the toacn shall De paid by e tGc laid by Sdsd district" Now this is the vital part of the law, the soul, the spirit. Without these words the law is noth- ing.

 Now as I understand this law, the law only provides for the extra expenses by tax, the law strictly ends with the words, tax laid by said district" The latter clause Of the section commencing with Nothing however" is merely grant, conceder. 1flndlVlduals volunteer to pay it, all right, let 1t be Paid m that way If all who attend the school vol unteer to pay 8 tuition that is all right, let them do it. but the paying by contributions or tuitions must be voluntary. If one indi- yidual in the district objects to the latter way of paying, then you have no legal resort but to tax. Districts have no rights against one single tax payer, no farther than what rights the law gives them. In former corres- pondence said this law is good and right, and from that Conformist has talked loud about my proposing to tax the district. dld not propose to tax. Conformist says, 'ls the . school of high grade benefit or not? If 1t IS a benefit it is certainly worth supporting. " I say it might be, and ought to be benefit to this whole town. We had hoped, and were encouraged to believe that we were to have a free high school, placed on basis Of wide and permanent usefulness, (wider than Con- formist's plan) We want such school as will be an advantage to this whole town, and that every individual shall realize their fond est anticipations of free high school. l say this high school might be made beneficial to all of the common schools in this town. The most advanced pupils from the whole town might be brought into this high school; this would take the more advanced pupils out of the common schools, and would give the smaller scholars better chance in the com mon schools.

 Conformist says, II prefer to pay my own fees rather than see my tax-ridden neighbors still further burdened for my children's tuition" Did you have this sympathy for your neighbors when you were telling them if they would submit to a tax sufficient to raise the 5000 for school house they should have high school advantages all free? Then after the house is built did you have this sympathy for your neighbors, when you vent into that school meeting and voted to turn them all out of that high school who could not or would not pay 25 cents week ? Will you answer these things? Also, answer what I said before about the way in which the money was obtained to build the school house, about obtaining property under false pretenses, and about districts repudlatlon' Answer these things if you can.

 ' e. CUMMINGS.