Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-01-29


to have issued from tho din and smoke of
the long column in your last with unbroken
edge. 1t cannot be employed in better
cause, so permit few more thoughts to find
place in the Journal.
Ny last was written it appears under an
entire misapprehension Of terms. An tan
ti-tax party" | ignoranlly supposed to mean
a party opposed to, or against taxes. Far
from it. Tho term you have carefully do
fined. "The anti-tax party" that is, ii shall
not increase oar tores.. And then as if to
make assurance doubly sure, for common
minds might yet bein the fog, wo are plain
ly told, for what set of town officers this an
ti-tax party is 10 vote tho FIRST Monday of
April next.
"They are to build side walks on the pub
lie Streets" A new ordinance surely, and
one which will help to swell the taxes con-
siderably They are "to build culverts,
sluices, and cutters, on and crossing Front
street," This is TO be tie street of 1862
thousands Of people are daily picking their
way here" No matter whence they come
or whittier they go. While on Front street
we must take good caro- of them, and be
sure that they have not "their neeks or
limbs broken"
But more, these officers are "to build gut
ters where they ought to be-" What wise
heads they will have to decide so promptly,
this much contested question! They are to
perform sundry other important services,
and finally TO have seventy-fve cents worth
of work done for one dollar That these
blessed results may be brought about all
tax payers are exhorted TO watch pray
In regard TO our schools we hope and be-
| lieve that we shall want more school houses
and more teachers in the next two years.
Is that a wise policy which wishes every
thing to remain in StdtW quo for tht
next two years TO come in Fremont7-
OF the nine hundred children who might at
tend our public schools, hardly five hundred
in actual attendance, and not hou. es enough
to accomodate these, since the lecture room
Of one Of our churches must be hired for th
purposcl Are no moro of these neglected
ones to be won into our schools? Mus
thore he no increase Of population? Th
time has been when because there were to
many scholars in some Of the schools, som
Of our children must wade through the mu
and miro, even to the surburhs of the tow
; to cqualize the numbers, Just as the farmc
would distribute his sheep according TO HI
pasture. But that day has gone by w
can no longer talk about the acreage Of OF
schools, giving So or GO to this room an
has his place assigned him according to h
qualifications. There may be 10 in on
room, and but 80 in another, and this
much nearer the case. Shall our little chi
dren be required to sit for weary hour
while the teacher is attending to classes
Algebra and Geometry, or tho oller en-
listen over and over 10 tho classes connir
over their A. B, C's, because forsooth the
must be no moro school houses, and in tn
room there shall be just 60 scholars; so tc
in the next.
II Oh let us have done with such close CT
c culations in the matter of schools. We a
= far behind many Of our sister towns, indcc
! We have hardly begun to wake up to the
1 Importance. There are not wanting hiG
c and holy motives to stimulate us, but
d were better even as a qualification to val
/ ty," than to rest satisfied in the trcadmill
y present achievements. B.
IS Now York, Jan. %.
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