Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-02-04

thAt WOuld De eacFlucco IN uuhncldl rum Dy
a series Of years Of taxation under the Norton
law that you and few others may no longer
be clod-hoppers, but sail over q stone pave
ment built with the hard earned money Of
your brother twenty miles away suffering
for the money stolen. Turn the leaf over,
you are looking at 50 intently, you have
found another picture haven't you. II your
eye sight is getting poor, or If you are natu--
ally nsar-sighted and can't see to your suf-
fering neighbors door, may be you are look
ing in the magnifying end Of an optic glass
and see yourself as large as mountain, il
you are but small lad, and looking at your
neighbor from the contracting end where be
is proportionately diminished as you are
magnifed. These eye glasses are awful de-
ceiving things for boys when you behold
yourself by the magnifying power in the ex-
animation of this stone road question, under
the Norton law, all that you and few Others
will have gained and every dollar of your
neighbors money put into this stone road,
who will never be benefited by its use, is
downright robbery, can't you see itf Now,
Cloddy, take look into mirror where only
your counterpart is reflected, and you won't
see that Sampson of man you saw in the
magnifer. Come my boy, let us take a
walk up the inclined plane Of moral con-
science where Growler stands and before
you reach that point you will have arisen
above that blizzard you beheld him through
and can cast your eyes down into the dark
and gloomy valley from whence you started
and how much better atmospher. you find up
here, no mist or blizzards to blind your Wis
ion, surrounded by another set of inhabitants
occupying another sphere where they deal
out justice to their fellows, and nearer the
sunshine of heaven. It is the higher and
lower position we occupy on the moral plane
of life that causes our vision to be clear and
see our neighbors afar of, and ourselves
as others see us, or our vision so befogged
with storms and blizzards that we can scarce
ly realize that we are not the only occupants
of earth. Let all take march up this plane
and when they arrive to the height of moral
light they will ask for no stone roads to be
built with their suffering neighbors money
with no equivalent.
My boy, have you ever taken deliberate
thought and computed carefully all the at
tendant cost of these proposed stone roadsi
Now don't be befogged by these plotters to
get the peoples money by their pretty stories
of nominal cost. Did you ever hear of the
public in Henry county getting anything
done at nominal cost? 1t will cost half the
estimate to put the road-bed in suitable con.
dition to receive the stone. Could the stone
and gravel be procured along the proposed
line, these fattering estimates would moi
reach the actual cost, as has been proven by
actual experiment in different places under
the two mile law, which should have remain.
ed operative in Henry county to-day, OF
something of similar import, and these stone
road advocates under the Norton law would
never been heard Of Add to actual cost Of
road-bed as it must be for permanenc., buy.
ing this enormous amount of stone at the
quarry. shipped by railroad and waggoned
along the line of road, and put down in
proper manner, and you may double the esti
mated cost and be nearer the mark. :.
Square DEALING.