Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-05-23
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DECEPTION EXPOSED.

Re- The, Cedar Valley Railroad Com
pany. Knowing full well that the construc7
ton of a road up the, Valley of the Wap-
sipinnicon, must necessarily cut them off
from the carrying trade of Minnesota,
if not really jeopardise for time the con-
struction of their road, and deeming the
defeat of the proposition of loaning the
credit of this county to the Wapsipini-
con road as likely to retard for time. if
not efectually prevent, the latter's con-
struction, have been, secretly employing
money and Misrepresentation to effect
that end, Men having no interest in the
county have been sent here to falsify and
misrepresent, and men in our own coun-
ty have been proffered pay if they would
oppose it. They have endeavored to ex
cite the prejudices of our people by hold
ing up the great bugb of Tax--Tax
and have talked of opposition to loans
onyiprinciple. If YOU meet them with
thu sessFtio9 that. ne tax is involved. IN,
fore the bonds are issued, they will point
you telthe, one per cent. in the proclama-
lion. You tell them that that is merely a
form required by law. show them the / l6
Sec, Chap: XIV, of the Code, which de-
clares noisuch vote shall be legal, with
out that.provision. that the County Judge
himself says that no bonds is to issue to
the company until it has secured to the
county both principal and interest, that
therefore their cry of Tax is mere bug
a-boo-show them all this, and they will |
tdk' to you of opposition on principle.
Yes, the people of Buchanan should OPP
pose this loan from principle, while the |
very men who tell you this, and who
breathe in your ear the word !" Tax, p
have been asking every county from Clin-
ton to Mitchell. along the proposed line
oftheir road. to swallow this same prii-
ciple, and a sure and inordinate tax with
IT. As sample of these gentlemen's
sincere opposition to Taxes, and of the
principle upon which they act, and also
for the purpose of showing the difference
between stv'7en proclamation embodying a tax,
and that which is offered to the people of
this county for their decision, we make
the following extracts from a proclama-
ton. published in the St. Charles, (Floyd
20. Mtealtgencer, which our readers can
compare with that in another column:
Whether the said County of FLOYD win take
one htiadred and fifty Thousand dollars Of the
stock Of the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Rail
road Company, and issue bonds of said County
In payment thereof, bearing interest ut the
rs1esot ten per cent per annum, the principal
Payable "a N twenty years from the date thereof
And for the payment Of the interest on said
bonds TIE county evurt Of said county is hereby
required, at the usual times of levyng taxes. to
levy'sueh tax on the taxable property Of the said
county, as shall be sufficient to paw such interest
annually. And after the expiration of ten
years from the date of the said bonds so issued
as Aforesaid. the said county court shall provide
by tax within the limits prescribed by law for
The payment OF the same, or by the sale of the
stock Of said Company sooner If deemed expe-l
dent and practicable" I ~ t
Recollect, this proposition comes from
he very men who are trying to instigate
opposition to the loan asked Of this eoun-
ty. While they ask you ID oppose the
loan Of the county upon principle and
talk to you of taxation, they make pro-
position of direct taxation to the people
q, Floyd, and four of the directors of
that road kindly consent to inform the J
people of that county, in communica- i
ion, over their own signature, published t
N the same paper, that the arrangement I
meets their appreciation. The arrange {
nept Of q bonaride tax upon the people i
II Floyd. for their benefit, is alright and /
proper; but the mere loaning Of the cred /
! OF this county to better company and
! better road, should be defeated on the
core of principle. Citizens Of Buchan- j
IN county, will you allow your best in t
erests to be sacrificed by needing the I
useless assumptions, the falsehoods, and :