Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-03-30
The County Expenses.

We would suggest to the Editors of the 4" Wilkes
Barre Advocate" and "Wikes Barre Farmer
that they had better mind their own business, and
then if they had any spare time left, TO devise a
plan for bettering the finances of Luzerne, instead
of busying themselves with the expenditures of
,his County. The people of Monroe, we appre-
bend are fully competent to manage their own af-
fairs, and even if they required the assistance Of
some persons, we opine they would not call upon
the Editors in question, who have shown so little
skill in conducting transactions at home There
is at present no County in the Commonwealth
whose finances are in so deplorabIe condition as
those of Luzene. Many of their Tax Collectors
have not settled their duplicates for years, and so
impossible is it to get any money of the Treas,
ury, that persons having claims against 1t are
obliged TO sell their orders at a runous discount
to make them at all available.
Our hard-working Tax Payers are not at all
desirous to see such state Of things prevailing
here, and have a notion that by prudence, econo-
my, and careful outstanding Of their resources,
they can avert It. We have not examined the
charges .or printing in that County, but judging
from tie tone o. their papers, have no doubt that
they are eXtravaGant enough. We have, however,
made fair estimate Of the printing done for this
COUNTY. aud rind that James Rafferty, has charged
upwards OF 50 per cent. more for it than it was
worth. We charged S25 for publishing the An
Gual Sta,ema..., sAiS year, and are ready to sub
a, J. 10 any ,u'ereste2 printer, TO say if that is
agt quite ~ a.a-a, as tae composition in it would
warrant Ae are saasGed of it ourselves, and
therefore could aaf. with a clear conscience, have
cnar-ea o.e penny more.
But even j. 1t were otherwise, we cannot see
what business our Wilkes Barre contemporaries
have to NEEDLE at all in the matter. The contro-
versy here affects no body bm the Tax PAYERS of
Monroe, James Rafferty,, and ourself-and if we
had even agreed II do the work for less than it
was worth, We would have been the losers by the
operation, not ihey-snd as we are in no way con-
necieG with c. dependent upon our Luzerne breth-
Teu, Their couou,t has been, TO speak Of it in the
mildest terms, uf5cious and unwarrantable. We
once heard OF a man who GOT rich by minding his
r1cE BUSINESS. and we rec emmend TO Mr.. Sisty and
his neighbour, 10 follow that mans example. 1t
viii keep them out Of many difficulties and be de-
Cidedly more profitable 10 them than mixing them
selves up with the Pecuniary affairs Of this Coun-
".
Bot after all there may be some hidden motive
in this interference which we have overlooked.
Perhaps this brace of Editors are playing the same
game of graf, at home, that jimmy Rafferty, has
been baIled in here, and are afraid that our nde-
pendence may open the eyes of even the Tax rid
cen LuzernIans, and be the means of cutting one
of they sources of plurder. If that IS the place
in which the shoe pincHes, they need look for no
counteaance or sympathy from US. The prices
charged by US for County printing are just and
liberal We are satisfied with them, and shall
Ioi enGeayour 10 increase them-and if they ex-
pcct irghten or bully US from our resolve, they
viii find themselves disappointed, and only incur
the Indignation of an injured comm nifty for their
pains