The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-06-18
T VI IHU UVWI IHIs
OCCAsIONALs.
One Too Many.
BY FoaY.

It is one of this worlds proverbs
that .''two families cannot live in tn
same house" Though frequently tried
the attempt is sooner or later failure
If man and his wife could be expected
to dwell in peace with any other family
it would naturally be that of their SOL
or daughter. And ignoring the lessons
on this point taught by the fruitful past,
almost every day daughter-in-law or 9
son-in-law is inveigled beneath some
other family roof-tree, with the assur-
ance that the house is abundantly ca
pacious for them all; but it is only a
question of time when dissolution and
removal will necessarily occur, and most
happily will it be if the family that goes
does not leave a root Of bitterness which
only years of separation can remove.
Now and then household, from pinch
ing times or sheer penuriousness, con-
cludes to rent out q portion of their
dwelling. The same motive that led
them to take in another family, induces
them to try to ignore or endure the un-
pleasantness and heart burning that are
sure to ensue, but the last straw of ag-
gravation will be laid on the camel's
back of their patience and the tenants
must seek other quarters. Not yet per-
ceiving the philosophical impossibility
in the case, the family will advertise for
and receive other tenants who will in
turn leave, and the trial may be again
repeated, but very soon there will be a
settled feeling that though their house
be as large as a cathedral, the room is
too little for two families.
This principle applies TO other things
as well. Therefore the world has an
other saw which says that "no two of
the same trade can agree" Here the
same ignoble but ineradicable motive
exists lit is that sort of selfshness that
caunot endure greater prosperity in
another. Usually this warfare between
two or more of the same avocation-the
more there are, the more bitter and des-
perate the stuff is7-affects only, or chief
ly, themselves; but when the rival in
terests assists in forming public opin-
ion to any considerable extent-the
more influential they are, the wider the
mischief extends-the persistent clash
ing becomes a disturbing and demoral-
izing element in an entire neighborhood
or community or state. There are va
rious illustrations of this evil tendency
and result, and in very marked degree
they are shown by the course of two
newspapers of like politics in the same
place. This is not always the case; in
some localities newsprints of the same
political principles seek to build each
other up and do really strengthen and
encourage each other; but if either, or
both, OF all of them-in case there be
more than two-have to struggle to
keep alive, the division and opposition
and downright war viii be clearly seen
in all their disgusting and disheartening
personal scrutiny and fatal self-injury.
Ohio abounds in instances of this sense.
less and destructive rivalry, but it is
doubtful that any other portion of the
State exhibits it in more glaring colors
than TIE city Of Toledo. Most unfor-
tunately for the peace and welfare of an
entire Congressional District she has
two English, Republican dailies that
hardly unite in the face Of a powerful,
common foe; and the one knows of no
stronger and better reason for opposing
principle, a measure or an individual,
than that the other supports the same.
Because Of the policy and efforts of
these two sheets, the leaders Of the Re
publican party about Toledo, are bust
lingly algayed in two factions; their jeal-
oils diseord lost the party victory last
fall, and evidently il win not be their
fault & a greater calamity does not be-
iell # a the next campaign.