Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-09
than equal the As paid by Sisters

the SiStersvtlle high school Will
cost principal and interest $4,000
or Sac. 900 Is of that Is 1000 or
IS, 900 the country must pay. In
the same time S.. 900 has not been
expended In the county for erec-
ton of the buildings. Sistersville's
as Is 1900. Even taking Reviews
own figures the city Is the gamer
by 5000 or $4,000.
The difference would be even
greater, If the just proportion were
given. Remember the country has
almost all of the B. & o. R. R. and
the oil and gas fields.
Most Of the wealth of Sistersville
was produced In the country.
Much of that Is In government
bonds on which no tax Is paid.
We believe the country pay much
more than q S of the taxes. Then
Mr.. Buck Is attacked for opposing
the location OF the Badger school.
Mr.. Buck lives In the country
and knows the situation. He
listened to petition signed by a ma
jority of the patrons of said school
giving reasons why they thought
1t should not be removed. If the
Oh Review wants to be fair and do
right, why did 1t not publish the
entire proceedings OF the board.
We only make this statement to
show Mr.. Buck had reasons for
voting as he did. He did not act
stubborn In the matter, after the
location had been decided on by
the other two members, he went
right ahead and helped to make at
rangements for the building of the
house.
We are not going to attempt to
show that the decision of the board
was not good. We admire the
stand taken by Bailey and Moore
They stood for what they thought
the interest of the school district.
They have agreed to build a very
commodious up to date building
for which we thank them.
We are broader than to oppose,
condemn and abuse any man be-
cause of his exercising his absolute
right of thinking for himself. Even
If we thought that better location
might have been had for the Badger
school, still we have thought less
OF Messrs. Moore and Baily had
they selected such location against
their honest opinion. We admire
them because they have acted
honestly, we only claim the same
privilege for Mr.. Buck, We know he
Is an honest man. Like Reed of
Pa, the King of England Is not
rich enough to swerve him from
the path of duty as he sees 1t.
He might at times be wrong, but
never willingly so. We need more
such men. There would be less
oribing Of legislators and less
number of party scandals were ell
men to act from principle as he
does. We perdict that this ward
will &c; along well, They are all
honest and willing to accord to
every other one the same privilel e
they claim for themselves.
The Review may just rest easy as
to commissioner Bucks resign1ng.
We want him to continue In Office If
for no other reason 10 give the Re-
view something to write about, why
1t has devoted as much space to him
as 1t did to Teddy Roosevelt, yet
Teddy was elected. 1t ends It's
TRADE against Mr.. Buck by appeal
Ing to him to have the order regard
music rescinded. This Is business.
The Review must understand that
when Sistersvile wants anything,
1t must call on Our county commits
sioner. He has absolute control Of
that place. Can have or exclude
music.
We have been hearing for a long
time of the greatest town on earth
but yet 1t had not occurred to Us
that 1t was the country that made
1t so great. A few intelligent coun.
try people have made the greatest
town on earth. This shows that
brains will succeed even over mum.
Der.
Since beginning to write this ar
ticle 1t has dawned upon US why
the Review does not want an indie
pendent district. To cut the coun-
try off from Slstersville would be
like removing the brain centers of
will and reason from the animal.
Although only a small portion re.
moved the animal founders around
senseless and helplesS.