Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-30
Speech OF MIR. Joah Whittle In SQuawk-
bCrO Town Meeting, on the Subject
OF Building Seh00l-hOuSe.

MR.. MoDERAToR-I want N say word
about this ere new school-'us. Most
| everybody has had their say, aud now I'd
like TO have mine. I can't set, as have
sot for the past tew hours, and see the
peoples money flung away on new
school-'us without saying a word agin it.
If understand the matter right, il is
proposed to spend tew thousand dollars.
And what fur, Mr.. Moderator2 To set up
a high school'us, and teach the boys and
girls of Squawkboro a lot of highfalutin
stuff that will only make them imperdent
and sassy.
When went to school and got my larn-
| in, all studied was the three R's--rGdd
IN, gitiH' and 'rithmetic; +; and that is
plenty enough for anybody to larn, and two
much for gal. 1t is easy enough for men
to get upA town meetin' and vote away
teio housand at a lick but how long
would it take them to arm that money
themselvesY In my opinion, MIR. Modera-
tor, there is toQrnuoh money locked up
in public buildings already. Look at the
meetin' uses in Squawkboro'i -Four, and
any one on 'em is big enough TO hold all
the people that goes to the hull ON 'em.
How can town ever get ahead that has
80 much capital locked up in meetin' 'usesY
And every one on 'em callin' the other
names
Suppose this vote passes-whar are We
agoin' to put your new school-'us? ThGre'l
be puzzler for ye 'spose Squire Snukes
will try his pootiest to have it built on his
! five acre lot; and somehow the people OF
this town think they must dew iist as the
/ squire tells 'em, because he was sent to
Gineral Court one term. But | can tell
you, Mr. Moderator, that if the school uS
put on that lot, it will be playin' mean
thing on the children that live up ovaG by
SINNERS Pond, and them that live up by
Silas Doozenberry's.a They can't come u
school only when the sun Shines And !
don't want the thing built anywhere neaI
my place. l know what it is to live near
the school'us. don't want my apples
and peaches hooked, or my fences hacked
up by boys, to say nothin' about the win.
ders broken by base balls and sich.
Mr.. Moderator, we've got along all these
years without this school -'us"; why can't
we get along fifty years more9 Why agi
tate this peaceful town of Squawkboro
from one eend to t'other about edicatin' a
parcel of boys and gals that know sight
more than their payrents do already?
I5to thousand dollars Ny gracious,
MIR. Moderator Jest.think of tew thou
sand dollars all to wonst Jest think Of
the town debt n0lo, and then picter To
yourselves what it win be with tew thou
sand more piled onto it. Look forrard a
hundred and fifty years, and see our chill,
dren's children groanin' under the taxes
this ere schoorus' will bring upon 'em
Why, sir, / got our minister to ffgger up
what tew thousand dollars would be il
divided ekally among the inhabitants Of
Squawkboro', and it come to three ana
ntnepeace apiece Yes, Mr. Moderator
three and ninepence apiece
Why, sir, it is only year since the town
went to the expense of two hundred and
fifty dollars to build hoarse house, aud
not livin' person in Squawkboro' needed
it. But there it is built, and stands there
unopened week after week, hardly any
use for it. As said before, l can't SCI
still and see the hard.earned money of the
people flung away on hearse-houses and
school houses without gittin' up and utter
in my voice agin it.
Mr.. Moderator, shall vote agin this
appropriation, and hope every liberal
minded, whole-souled man will do the
same Vim. L. WilEiamS, in 0Iiger OPP
tics Magazine.