The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-24

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crowd could hardly be expected to hesi.
tate at any unscrupulously false state.
ment to carry their point. When they
impugn the honor of such men as Mil.
ton McKeehan, DR.. Hoyt, A. W. Down.
ham, AL. Matthews and the rest of the
school board, however, they are going
too far. Their miserable insinuations
will react. These men are among our
heaviest taxpayers. They know the
exact situation. They are conscientious
and honorable, and would never ask for
a school house, if they did not know
positively that it is essential to the best
interests of scholars and people. They
know the horrible possibilities of FIRE.
They know the unhealthfulness of pres.
ent conditions and the prevalent head.
aches and sickness among the children.
They know the constant appeals from
parents in that school territory to allow
them to send their children to the Wal.
nut street building They know Of fam.
lilies who have moved only for the pur-
pose of getting their children out of that
horrible Main Street building. They
know that old shack is nightmare to
teachers and scholars. They will give
our city creditable modern building,
equipped with every facility for the de.
velopement of health and for the in.
struction of the mind, and will put it up
at a cost of less than five cents on each
hundred dollars Of taxable property
the cost of one cigar or one glass of beer
per annum. While the Gazette gang
howl at this mite of cost they are insult.
ing your manhood. They know that
even that cost will be wiped out in
year or two by reductions in other di.
rections, and by the present rapid in.
crease of the tax duplicate. But, even
were that not the case, would you hest.
tate to give nickel for such an incal.
culable benefit to your children Is your
soul so dead as that urobservation of
the character of the citizens of Hillshoro
leads usto answer with an emphatic NO!
The latest monopolistic aggregation is
the paper trust. and newspaper publish
ers will have to pay the tribute Clinton
County Democrat.
Is it possible? Trusts under Demo.
cratic administration Oh, no-that
can't be! Didn't the Democrats promise
everybody, in '92, that they would knock
out all trusts and monopolies Didn't
they proclaim themselves as friends of
the poor and enemies of aggregated cap.
ital? 1t seems to us we have a dim
recollection Of their cyclones of oratory
against all corporations and combines,
even including the "robber barons" who
were furnishing employment to the
working people, and paying them good
wages. But hold-let's see. Who was
this man Brice, before whom the Dem.
ocracy fell down in worship, like the re.
creant Israelities before the golden calf
Wasn't he the head and front of the
most odious trust in the world ? Wasn't
he the king of the standard oil monop.
oily? Wasn't he q railroad wrecker, q
Wall Street gambler, an oppressor of the
poor, who refused to protect the lives of
his army of railroad employees, because
it would involve an expense? Itseems
to US that's the very man. What was
this sugar trust, before whose demands
the Democracy bowed in such swift and
glad submission that even Grover, who
has always grovelled IN the dust before
the magnates of Wall Street and London,
could not suppress an indignant and
disguised expression Of "Perfdy and
dishonor ?" Come to think of it, may
be there are dourishing trusts under the
Democratic administration. On mature
consideration, we rather think there are.
But, it's strange. isn't it?
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