Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-02-06
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PcrsonnI-FigurcS will LLe-rh ough
Legal, 10 N not Just-NOts so when
was young-Strange, yet true
Anti Scribo'D

tnOSe WHO never overcome their natural
repugnnnce to certain things. But usually
repeat sd efforts enable ono to relish what
lie once disliked. | have known people,
who. once, could not relish tomatoes, to
become so fond Of them ns to eat them raw
think succotash is, to some people, such
dish
1t occurs to me that, in my last article
for the JoURNAL, after alln,lng to the fact
that ] was u stranger, needing an Introduce
| ion, ioculurly remarked that some might
wish that | had never brn introduced.
How often words lightly spoken, are laden
with important truth!
NOT lN EVERY CASE.
Probably it isdilirult to state who first
used the familiar SAYING, " Figures will
not lie" 1t matters not how il originated I;
we hear it quite often and vet it is hy no
means universally true. Figures may be
perverted 70 as to tell untruths, rs they
often do in SO. cal eel statistics and IN that
case it cannot be truthfully said that "fg-
ures will not lie," although the compiler
of the false statistics uses the proverb to
prevent too close examination OF his re
suits.
There is one use made Of figures, to
which certain people are frequently resort
|
ing the relative strength OF various candi.
oates for office, 10y canvnssing the passen-
gers in railroad cars. Every campaign the
advocates of the election of each respective
candidate thus secure his success, aud ye,
only one, il indeed any, of the list is chos.
en- thus proving the saying quoted above
to be not always true.
A GREvIOUs WRONG.
Governments must be sustained, and Ia
this end taxes ere levied to meet the
necessary expense. When this burden
bears on all proportionalely, il is just but
when partiality is in any manner used the
the assessment becomes an injustice and a
wrong. Good citizens may, for time ig
more the outrage; but unless it is peacea-
bly, corrected, they will rise in rebellion
and right their wrongs by the Use Of force.
There are various ways in which this par
tiality and inequality may be used. The
property may be uncqually valued; the
tax unequally levied or injustice used in
its collection; and the outcome will, in
any Of these events, be serious wrong.
There is another way in which injustice
in taxation may be done, and il is this to
which the caption OF this article alludts.
| refer to the mannor in which the law
discriminate against those who pay taxes
which are illegally levied, rather than re-
sist collection when they become due. Un-
lawful taxation may be met in three differ
ent ways. 1st, not to pay; I'd, to pay I'M
| der protest, and 81, TO pay as ii the proper
ty owner thought the taxes just. The G.
suit is greatly different in each case.
If payment is refused, when the proper
correction is made all penalties are remov-
ltaI Hal ic ntl lN
made. If payment he made under protest,
the portion illegally collected can be recov-
cred by action in the courts. But what is
paid without protest, cannot be collected
back even by sut-it is gone forever, not
wiihsIanding the wrong
The peculiar injustice in the matter thus
appears: II taxes are not paid, the Gov
ernment must stop until the proper correct
| ion is made. Yet those who generously
pay Illegal taxes, not only cannot recover
anything, but they must help make up the
| loss caused by those who refuse to pay and
are relieved from paying the portion unlaw-
! ful y assessed
HOW DIFFERENT THEN AND NOW.
think my readers, with perhaps one OBJ
stInate, off ox-exception, will say, with me,
that, sn these days the otciary OF Sunday
! Schools leave no stone unturmed 10 attract
children, and retain them when they have
once entered n class. In my Sunday School
days how different WAS the CASE Worry
rarely, a scholar that accomplished some al
most suIerhuman feat. such as committing
the entire New Testament to memory, r,
ceived II cheap book, the usual prize being
a small card with daub Of rose at the
top, Il few verses OF doggera below, n thin
] n l,a ola . ,a
teachers or the superintendent'S name
crowded in somewhere, showing that tho
card was not originally designed for this
particular Use Yet how we priced those
cheap cards. have n few such given me
years ago, and think as much OF them
as If they were oil paintings or bed room
setS | was about to give my readers a
clue to my nge; but concluded to forbear
in mercy to the one that is so flippnntlv
offered TO find II place where could chore
Tor my board. 1t is pity that the fate 0i
the youth who called the prophet Elisha
"Old Baldhead was not before a certain
ones mind. He must he wan ing either
IN heart or in mind, who insults gray hairs
1t IS so much better TO repress ugly word,
they might hit where they were not dc.
signed 10 strike-the innocent might bc
hurt!
But speaking OF Sunday Schools, | was
reminded OF the difference above sugges
ted, while attending the nineteenth ami
versary OF the Third Congregational Churll
Sabbath School OF Toledo, last Sunday eve
| must not take too much time or space
notwithstanding the skepical remark in
your No OF week before last, Mr.. Editor
but do wish TO give yOn few points
Nineteen years ago, down on the " Flats,
then the vilest portion Of the city-neal
tue gas house-lwo or three gentlemen OBJ
tanned the use OF small room, knelt il
prayer for success in their undertaking and
after securing the neighborhood, gathered
in less than Il score OF children of variou,
ages, with ragged garments, dirty faces
and no proper realization OF the courtese,
OF civilized life. The pious and lamented
Mr.. Sargent, after whom Sargent Mission, ,
in lower town, is named, was the first Su
perintendent, and but two OF its founders
are now connected with the school, but III
third Superintendent has now charge OF 1
class.
Last Sunday evenings report shows tha
the average attendance tor the past yea
was over 260, the average collection owe
50, and the number Of teachers 80.
fiourishing church has grown out of tht
school, which school was years ago trans
lerred to chapel bLilt by It's foster pnren
the First Congregational Church, thougl
now it is independent and has the minis
trations OF one OF the more able pastors il
the place.
On this last anniversary was sung
hymn composed by one OF its teachers an,
set to music by Prof w. A. Ogden, who's
Joy Bells is used in the school. Their
were reel ations by lads and misses, an OF
iginal composition by II member OF one o
the classes, and the awarding Of ornat
cards, floral pieces and white roselles--
Badges lmperial--given TO the scholar
holding the first rank for the year. II wa
- most interesting occasion, but WAS sad
deued by the circumference Of the loss, h
death, OF one Of its mcmhers-a highly e,
tcemed lady Ieacher-aud by the consc
business that the beloved pastor chen la
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