The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-19
k~ANNIlxATioN QUESTION.
Communicated
Ann eXatiOn of Miami Citv.

TO demand Of them a careful investipation
ofthe question so TO be determined.
II Is rumored that In the eastern part oftbe
city. some persons, who can see no further
than the precincts oftheir own domicil, OBJ
pose the annexation for the selfish reason
that in their own opinion it will increase
their taxes to improve Miami City without
any local benefit to themselves. AZ we'll
might the occupants of the original limit
of Dayton have opposed the annexation of
the east part. II would at least have been
as generous and quite as unlVise.
But let II be understood that the citizens
of Miami City do not ask to be admitted
for the purpose of having their streets gra-
ded, and graveled. &c at the expense of
the city. but If at some future time, they
demand an unnecessary expenditure of
public treasure, do the citizens of DAYTON
fear that two Councilman (all that by the
present stains they are entitled to.) will
overpower or outgeneral the sixteen CITY
Fathers OF DaytonY Certainly not. What
then Is TO be fearedp | answer nothing
but fogyism. II is well known that the
public schools In Miami City, are indifrer-
lent and only Kept open a few months in
each year, not for the want of ability Of It's
citizens, but for the want of u proper edu-
%cational spirit of its managers as is usual
in small villages, and for this reason
(Which is the sole one they have asked an
neXatiOn that an experienced Board of
Directors may manage their schools, and
thereby elevate them to a proper standard.
This may %truthfllly be said to have
created with but few exceptions, the entire
Huie objection made by the dnti-free-school-
men In Miami City. The same spirit was
prevalent when our free school system was
first introduced, and will no doubt continue
to spit its yenonous opposition at every
effort that may be made to raise the free
schools to their proper standard. Miami
City has its school-houscs already built all
they ask is an efficient moduS operGRdi
which they confidently expect by annexa-
ton to Dayton.
WIN the voters of Dayton let the children
of the poor, of Miami City, be deprived of
an education while there be sufficient avail
able means in Miami City to do il.
Again, is 1t not to the benefit of every
business and laboring man in Dayton to
increase her population. 1t may be said,
what Is there in that strange spell, a
name ~ In answer. there is force in num-
bers. The greater the population a city is
reported to have, the greater win be the
influx OF trade. This is self evident to all,
and too plain to argue, and has been'so well
understood that the Legislature has found
IT necessary to restrain, by certain %restric-
lions, cities from inclosing in their limits
contiguous territory without application.
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Nv "Aiii'Nhtl'll VI
City may prove a vexatious questionto the
voters, and as no little whisky may be split,
not to say blood, | propose to offer n high
authority bearing upon the decision of this
controversy, No less than the opinion of
the citizen who gave that place its present
pretentiOus name. Without much promis-
ing, however, Mr.. EDITOR. would that town
/ mt lpgn Ire p1fytlpoI;t, h. ;,.ou,.....-.
with Dayton-as the less always swallows
the greater. Upon the hypothesis that
newspapers-adyertisements and all-gen-
orally aim at truth, l proceed to quote from
the annals of the past:
"A PLEASANT HOME IN A PLEASANT PLACE"
Miami City is one of the most beautiful
and healthful localities in the Miami Valley,
for a retired and quiet home. 1t is separat-
Ell from the City of Dayton on the West.
by the Great Miami River, and covers an
area OF three square miles. Its growth is
healthiul and energetic, promising much
in the future, and good houses with other
good improvements are constantly gong
on. Miami City is beautifully laid out,
! with ample parks, covered with native
forest trees, and broad streets and alleys-l
streets from 60 to 100 feet wide, and nu-
merous read alleys. In some of our plats
the streets and alleys occupy rs much
ground rs the LOTS
Now mark the main point:
whoever loves good society, good neigh
bOrhoOd, schools, churches, &c, can be fully
gratiiied in n home in Miami City. Tip
ping shops and rowdy boys live on the
otller side OF the river. The present is a
favored time for all who would make for
themselves n pleasant home in a pleasant
place. a home Uhere one toOuld not only
Tore To line, But LOVE 70 DIE, when the in
evitable hour shall nave come. The UNI
dersigned IL Offering lots, &c. &c"
Here follows details of the %ruinous prices
asked for the lots.
AT these prices" he resumes 'and on
such terms who is so poor as not to be able
to buy a lot? Who will not have a house
where every tree, Hover and shrub planted,
and every improvement made. he can call
his own? Who would not rather be shell
tered beneath the that ch of his own cottage
than be the tenant of another, however
palatial the mansionY Reader, come and
make yourself a pleasant homein a pleasant
place."
This is history, Mr.. Editor, and we must
believe it, and as surely as Dayton absorbs
Miami City, so surely will it lose all these
attractions of a"I9uS in Tribe" What the
writer says above, about it being a pleasant
place to die in, is open to argument. So
faras my knowledge goes zone OF the afore-
said dead have ever reported back unless
the s~piritualists found the reports. There
might be perhaps some better place to die
In, not far from Miami City. You can die
higher, drier and quieter in Dayton View;
whether ~pleasanter, is the question. This
is not grammatical, but never mind. The
historical reference would seem to be con-
elusive and final, win you annihilate this
lovely suburb in a trice. | started with
the hypothesis that the founder of Miami
City fairly presented its advantages as they
existed years ago and time has not inn
paired them. Dayton will require a deer
park one of these days as well as better
lungs than she has now, then Wen all 90
over there TO breathe.
A Cousin TO MELLHoRN.
ATRIP 70 New YoRK-Do you want TO
take n trip to New York city without leav-
ing Dayton, obtaining a view of miles of
streets of the great metropolis, with the