The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-01-12

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SOMEBODY 10 ..NENO.


Our heart was greatly rejoieed Il
see, that one Of our officials pitche,
into Memo" J." That Is right Mr.. Com.
missioner-bully for you, Don't let
ifNemo" knock q chip Off your hat
without knocking him into the mid
[ die Of next week-it won't do. il is toC
near election. We knew that il,
would come across his man, and me-
thinks ! see our noble Commissioner
with his sword on-'but in self de-
fense"-and a huge goose quill stuck
behind his ear defying memo" tc
mortal combat. Now, then, Memo
where, who and what are you? Exit
Memo Ofcourse 'iaLl street fn1prors-
neHfs" have been made just as they
were ordered by the Council, no mat
/ ter when or where the council met
whether in the Council Chamber or
on q curb-stone. whether there was
one or more present at the meeting,
or whether the Mayor protested or
not. What right has the Mayor to
protest? He don't fix the amount of
the salary Of cur Commissioners, or
anybody else; he has no fat jobs to let;
he don't pay when the work is done, or
can't stop the pay.
Suppose the "streeJ improvements"
on the Mohawk road were stopped,
and the frog pond in the rear of our
friends Seney and Zahm's houses was
not abatsd. Why that just simply
proves that our faith was not strong
enough to say to the clay bank be thou
removed and cast into the pond, and
it was sou
or course, the last named improve
ment was stopped by order of the
Council, or that hill would have come
down and that hollow come up, if
Sands and Craner would have had
to put a fence ten feet high around
their premises to keep their children
from falling into the excavation.
What do they amount to beside our
friends Seney and Zallm?
"Bush Memo under a July sun
shoveling dirt" / should think they
would-Andrew Mehen, Michael Sny-
der and David Bender are Just the
men for that business. ''Wager the
lager on itr' That is right, Mr.. Com
missioner, that shows the saloon keep
ers that their rights should be respect
ed.
Now we all know our Commission
er. He is young, strong and vigorous.
The man who travels with him all
day long after deer in the black swamp
while his salary runs on regularly
viii need rest when night comes.
The man that can lay more bricks
and mortar together in ten hours than
he can, will have to eat something
more than bean pOrridge.
But who is Memo? Some spin
dle-shanked, long-armed, knock
kneed, skeletonized biped, or some |
lazy, lubberly fellow, who in any mar
ket would be labeled "tub of fat?''
Which would be the easiest to
bush, memo" or our Commissioner? ]
That needs no answer. Well now we
know that said Mehan, Bender, Sny-
der, and others just like them, |
''bushed" our Commissioner. We
saw him a number of times last sum-
mer "bushedn in the shade of a tree,
or building, watching these veterans /
do their work under a July sun, and /
they did not work hard either. And |
then, too, our Commissioner "bushedD /
at $500 per year, while Snyder, Ben
der, and Others do the work at 81 so
per day, and did not do much either.
"Bush Memo ~ 1 guess they
would if there We're six at one pile of
dirt-five to scrape on to the sixth
ones shovel.
But the heartless suggestion of
Memo" as to the.aged veterans. Das-
tard, coward What next? To sug-
gest that these men should not be en-
ployed because they are too old to
work. That is right Mr.. Commits
sioner, pitch into ''Nemo's" father,
If he ever had one. Try a tear upon
him; quote the Commandments to
him; go in generally. Have not all
lhese veterans a vote, and amt that
answer to ''Nemo'su imper-
.inence?
We know that ''Nemo" may at
lempt to defend his position by sug-
costing to our Commissioner that he
IS young and vigorous and can shovel
iirt, carry brick, ete.-and gets $500
per year. How would it do for him
o trade with the old man at the shov-
Il at 81 so per day, and!let the old man
De "bushed" at $500 year, work or
40 work, with time for a deer hunt
thrown in? Then he could provide
irst rate for the old woman during
he cold winter.
Well, we will let the Commiss ioner
answer that, as he is wading into
Memo" SOMEBODY.