Show watch the country schools the theory 3 the free school telof this country is that chorich orich th shall help educate the children of the poor A rich man with no children must pay much more toward the education of a poor family of ten or twelve children than the father of the children althere were not this cooperative interest in education the children of the poor man would ygo without schooling the rule thus applied to the individuals of a community applies to the state itself the school tax takes from the wealthier centers and applies their taxes to aid in the education of the children of the poorer districts under pioneer conditions exceeding beneficial system pioneer counties state could have s continued their schools only a month or two in winter without state aid but the taxes from the larger counties came to the rescue of the pioneers and gave their children opportunities but little if any inferior to the schools of the alie same theory has been applied to county government the country dis been receiving the benefit of taxes levied in the cities and it is a correct principle but the salt lake people have always be averse to contributing to the country schools just as tho rich man feels badly because he is assessed to help educate the children of the poorman and each recurring legislature is asked to remedy what all the salt lake papers call an injustice to the capital in the legislatures their request has not been heeded bufa in the constitutional tut convention members from the capital got in their work it was desirable and all acquiesced in it that the cities of the first and secand class control their own schools separate and apart from the county schools and some way the word maintained was also inserted making the clause read in cities of the first and second class the public school system shall be maintained and controlled by the board of education of such cities separate and apart from the counties in which said cities are located members of the committee claim that the word maintained was inserted without their knowledge but being in the constitution we do not see how the supreme court could well rule differently ferent ly from has done the result is the doing away of an inaus atiee deseret aws which it was thought by many that only re prospective legislation would cure we never have regarded as an injustice here in provo to help support the county schools the difference is not so great here in this city between the amount paid into the county fund and the apportionment received in return as in the capital that city has been out every year about or thirty thousand dollars and provo has been out only about a thousand dollars but the principle is the same in both cases it is the same also as that on which our entire free school system rests we are not prepared to say that is an injustice for the rich to help educate the children childr jn of the poor |