Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-08-20
(From the Weston Avalnnche.)
A Few Facts for the Consideration or
YOtprS

We are not running Tor Office, and our
AK needs no grinding, hence we propose to
deal with men and facts as men and facts, |
and rest the case with our citizens, giving
them credit for intelligence enough to see
their own interests, and not undertake to
weave over them garment with "soft
soap" for the warp, and sympathy, prom
Use of office, and money for the wool We
have no lively sympathy for Bowling
Green. Those who live there say, "Ii
our county seat is lost, our town will die"
Well il the town does die, il will help
Weston to build up; and all the sympathy
we have for Bowling Green, il, that we
are sorry for those people who are so un-
fortunate as to live there-we are Just ns
sorry for the heather. But as Weston
men, owning property in Weston, doing
business in Weston anxious for the pros
perity of the town, desirous for the future
growth OF our town, and far reaching ex-
tension of her trade, is it to our interest to
build up, or assist in building up, under
our very walls as it were, strong COM
peting town? And what is true for Wes-
ton, is equally true for Toutogany, Hask-
ins, Milton Center, Custar, Jerry City, and
North Baltimore.
Our Tontn5any friends, we are glal to
learn, begin to see thus, and not only see it
= but feel it. Weston begins to see and feel
it. The fact that the arm-railroad will
give Bowling Green good grain market,
strikes deadly blows at the vitality uf the
4 whole circle of towns about It; and every
\ time Bowling Greener crows over their
. grain market, they make merry over the
death knell Of Weston, Tontogany, Milton,
Cnstar and the whole range of towns
| around. Now the fact is this, there are
= hut two sides TO this question and the first
, is: That Bowling Green mus; grow up,
in size and Importance by the suffrages of,
and at the expense of the surrounding
I towns, thereby decreasing the valuation
= of our property in the same ratio rs Bowl
- ing Green advances or in the second case
we must grow ut Bowling Green's expense
Some NAV sav-and do saw sneeringly-
: Phoo I nin't afraid of Bowling Green
r getting ahead of Weston" There are no
, facts in such an exclamation as this. Our
= not being afraid of any such result, does not
! change the probability in the least, and il
1 only the argument used by those weak
a minded persons in old colonial days, whom
, that noble old patriot, Patrick Henry, de-
nounces as idiots, "Gentlemen may cry
peace peace ? but there is no peace" and
n then warns them against lying suppinely
Y on their backs until they are bound hand
and foot. (The Sanhedrin don't lie sup
pinely on their backs, they lie just as vel
standing up
g The Neus once rdi;ued us because We
t proposed TO wage this county seat war il
the interests of Weston and Milton town
= ships, and now our generosity will enabl,
s us to take in Tontogany, New Baltimore
h Jerry City, and we have confidence enough
e in the intelligence of the people Of thes,
towns, and their desire to build up thei
own towns and property, TO believe tina
they can see this matter to their own inter
est.