The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-06-04

For the journal.
Mr.. EDIToR Baron Munchausen, under the
guise of Tax Payer has at last appeared, and
in the very first sentence of his communication
he makes personal attack on the "Tin Shop
Clique and Eminent Counsel" We appear
as board of Education TO explain our acts and
face the charges which have been made against
us as a Board, and we cannot suffer ourselves
to be made cover from which "Tax Payer
may, assassin like, stab those whom he deems
his personal enemies, nor can We allow this to
become cover for the discussion of private,
personal or political feuds. The individual
whom Tax Payer has assailed is perfectly
able and undoubtedly willing to defend hrlsslf,
and toitk him Mr.. "Tax Payer" can more con-
veniently settle matters of private nature. 1t
is untrue, whether stated by Tax Payer or
Others, that we have made this personal con-
trovrrsy. The charges against US were OF per-
sonal fraud and incompeteacy and if in repel
ling those charges personalities become unavoid-
able, the fault lies not with us. Tax Payer
complains bitterly of the advice of :" Eminent
Counsel" Eminent Counsel, like Banquos ghost,
seems 10 haunt him.
Why should he complain? The true author
Of the last communication signed TAX Payer
is himself lawyer, who has borrowed the hand
writing Of another for the exhibition ufhis own
malignity. Admit if you please that" Eminent
Counsel" penned the reply of the Board, this
makes it on both sides simply ' legal contro-
versy" Bu! hold Attention Silence In
our report Tax Payer" has found q nlL s
nest How ? He takes our figures not as we
gave them, year by year, but adding up the whole
receipt for four years and daducting the total
ex xpenditures aslonishes himself and us with the
wonderful discovery that the Board is now some
SO 800 in debt. Oh most sagacious legal quib
bier! "a second Daniel come to iudgment."-
Garry out your most profound astute and honest
from the organization of the
Union School up to the present time, and you
will have the Board over $4,000 in debt.
There would be lie worth telling--a mares
nest with an egg in it Mr.. &c Tax Payer
"Tax Payer cannot see that large part of
the expenditure Of each year has gone to pay up
all the outstanding indebtedness of the previous
year. Thatin the computation of the Board the
deficit of each year was added into and made
part Of the expenses of the succeeding year.
Thus in our computation the deficit OF 1854
was stated 8 S995.7S this iCas addsi into the
expenses of the merit year. and the receipt of that
year taken from the current expenses and form
er deficit, left detici tfor lS04-5 of over 800,
that debt was then added into the expenses of
the next year, and the sum total diminished by
the receipts of that year left DE- fCit for 1855 6
of 1881 .26. That debt was again added into
aud made part of the expenses OF the present
year. Diminish this amount by taking from it
the total receipt for this year and you have a
dehcit left of 'S957l9, as the absolute sum to-
tai of Indebtedness against the Board. including
all former deficits up to August lst 1851. Block
heads are always very forward to volunteer
advice. We have case before US Txa Payer,
exuiting in his arithmetic, advises US to attend
''Woman's School" We don't hnoic but lrs shall.
We are not of that number who believe that even
a man canpot at some time learn som. thing
worth knowing in a Woman's Scnoo.' The
man who sneers at the intellectual capacity of
a woman to teach school deserves the contempt
and scorn Of every man land there are several
of them i'll our town. who has female relatives
employed in the high and honorable calling of
School Teaching.
But if Tax Payer really believes the system Of
arithmetic paraded in his article, we advise him
to seek immediate admission to the state school
established for dwelling idiots--having
a friend at Court he can easily get in.
You say that al our teachers have been good.
Let us pause and admire your inconparGbls mod
ssty in saying SO. You say the Board was not
in debt to the amount of some 500 al the close
of the fiscal year in lS55, and proof cite the
fact that there was in the hands OF the Treasurer
at the close OF that year about 300 lit was
SOL .53.) We have in the treusury at the close
of the present fiscal year over 800. II the fact
that they had money in the Treasury is proof
that they were out OF debt, the same fact should
lead to the same conclusion in this case, but it
is true in nsithar. The Board in lS5l5 was in
debt some 500, and he Board in 1867 is in
debt sSgj7.49. But you cOolly ask, s. Why said
YOU, this will undoubtedly be denied unless you
did not believe it yourselves. Why anticipate
objections? We will tell you why" 1t was
because your employer had denied the fact at the
corner OF the streets for days prior to the appear
ance of our reply, therefore we had right to
presume that what the employee had said on
the streets, the employer would maintain in the
papers. But you are amused at our pirtlcipat-
ing in the JOYS and sorrows of the scholars of
the Union School, of course a man whose heart
is dusty and hung all over with cObwebs, ON
which sit such watchful grey old spiders as
envy and sefshnsSs could hardly BE- expected to
sympathize in such small matters as the joys
and sorrows Of children. We should rather ex-
pect to see YOU interested in the cut # girls
collars and the qvantun of starch applicable to
bogs dicIics That such whole soult magnanl
nifty as you possess shoid take any interest in tn
Development of the mind or the culture Of the
hear; Of children, It would b. folly 10 expect.
Having now fully answered d" Tax Payer and
his laWyer, and placed Ourselves right before the
people, we are content to await their decision
at the annual meeting, at which time, il it be
required, we will be prepared to prove every
statement which we have made in regard TO the
Union School IN the mem time the books and
papers are open for the investigation of all who.
are interested. Yours Truly,
BoARD OF EDUCATION.
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