The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-29
Gelefte1 Hlislellanp.
Speech OF Mr.. JOab Whittle In SQuawk-
bOrO Town Meeting, on the Subject
of Building Sch00l.hOuSe.

Mr.. MODERATOR-l want tn say word
about this ere new schoOl-'us. Most
everybody has had their say, and now I'd
like to have mine. | 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, it is
proposed to spend tew thousand dollars
And what fur, Mr.. Moderator? 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 1 went to schoel and got my larn-
in, all l studied was the three R's-redd
an, ritin' and 'rittmetic; and that is
plenty enough for any body to larn, and two
much for gal. 1t is easy enough for men
to get up town meetin' and vote away
teo thousand at a lick; but how long
would it take them to arm that money
themselves In my opinion, Mr. Modera-
tor, there is too much 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 a town ever get ahead that has
so much capital locked up in meetin uses?
And every one on 'em calm the other
names
Suppose this vote passes-whar are ye
agoin' to put your new schoOl-'us? There'll
be puzzler for ye! 'spose Squire Snukes
will try his pootiest to have it Quilt On his
five acre lot and somehow the people of
this town think they must dew jist 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
is put on that lot, it will be playin' mean
thing on the children that live up Ovar by
SINNERS Pond, and them that live up by
Silas Doozenberry's. They can't come to
school only when the sun shines And |
don't want the thing built anywhere near
my place | 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 more? Why agi-
tate this peaceful town of Squawkboro'
from one eend to t'other about edcatin' a
parcel of boys and gals that know a sight
more than their payments do already?
7sc thousand dollars! NV gracious,
Mr.. MODERATOR Jest think of tew thou
the town debt n0u, and then picter to
yourselves what it will be with tew thou
sand more piled onto it. Look forrard
hundred and fifty years, and see our chill
dren's children groanin' under the taxes
this ere schoolus' will bring upon 'em.
Why, sir, got our minister To figger up
what tew thousand dollars would be if
divided ekally among the inhabitants of
Squawkboro', and it come to three and
ninepence apiece Yes, Mr.. Moderator,
three and ninepence apiece
Why, sir, it is only a year since the town
went to the expense of two hundred and
fifty dollars to build hearse house, and
not livin' person in Squawkbore' needed
it. But there il is built, and stands there
unopened week after week, hardly any
use for it. As / said before, l can't set
still and see the L rd-earned money of the
people flung away on hearse-houses and
school houses without gittin' up and utter
in ny voice agin it.
Mr. Moderator, shall vote agin this
appropriation, and hope every liberal
minded, whole-souled man will do the
same.-Wm. L. Williams, IN OLi0er OPP