| Show schools and school books bootes every one seems to be complaining of the high price of school books not only in this city but all over the union the book makers who are successful in getting their books endorsed by school boards seem to have pretty much their own way vay and that the prices of books are exceedingly extravagant few will deny it and then too school books are so frequently changed that to purchase them ia is a hardship on the pl arents parents of pupils some of whom are all to poor to pay for them the peo peopled ples pies colleges have all been monopolized by the sons of the rich who dress well Itt it akesa takes a great deal deai of money for a poor man to dress his hia children in in such away a way that they will not disgrace the clothes worn worm by the sons and daughters of the wealthy or be the objects of attraction on account of their poor COth clothing Dg in comparison with that worn by their fellow pupils the truth is the public schools are not what they were brigi originally nally nails intended to be institutions in which the ahe children of the poor could receive a good english edu edri i cation catlon without money and without price price it was never designed that the higher bran branches ches chee of a collegiate education should bo be acquired red at th the e people peopled 18 colleges nie tt i men who wish to give their children 1 classical educations should erid erld t our schools to become a tax upon the people generally we sometimes think it would be better if there were no high school attached to otti public schools for poor children seldom reach this institution their parents neither acm aff lording affording the money nor the time of their children d n t to 0 go through this depart ment it is the high school business in a great degree degrees which h caus causa 4 es the school jevy levy to be so large if the public schools were conducted as originally designed the levy foi fot fe school purposes would be at ively but a trifle to what it is at the present time swelling up the levy until it hoomes burdensome a great deal of it going to teach the higher branches of an education to td the sons and daughters ot of the rich ex |
