The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-02-03

business. Under such state OF things.
to exclude the good currency of othsr,
States, is simply wanton rasping OF the
fingers Of the people, and 40 uncallsd for
attempt to control and worry them in
their every day financial peralions. j We
trust that members from the border and
river towns especially, will remember
that the proposed law would be source
Of daily annoyance and constant injury,
and that the interests Of their immediate
constituents would be seriously imperiled
by such law.
Things are working we'll enough let
them work. Ifpeople prefer greenbacks,
all right; but il they are satisfied to take
currency let them alone. Such law
could not be very generally enforced, and
while it remained on the statute book
would be too fruitful of curses for the
peace Of mind of any conscientious man
WHO shall assist in imposing j. on the
people.
COUNTY SUPERVISORS.
County Supervisors are not regarded
with favor, it seems. 10 some localities.
In Dubuque and some other counties they
refuse to aid soldiers families, and in our
own county they aid their political pets
to swindle and rob the people. True
enough but would not county commie-
sioners or county judges, or any other
officers having charge of county affairs,
and elected by such constituency. do the
same? Certainly they would; and more
than that. they have done just such things
in times past here, and in other States
where the system Of county juageships
and commissioners hare prevailed
The county supervisor system is, on
principle. the best system for county leg
islation and administration. and when the
people become thoroughly familiar with
it, aud learn how important it is to their
local interests to select competent and
honest men, it viii be found to work we'll
in Iowa as i, has done for long time in
New York and elsewhere.
LIQUOR LAW.
The liquor law we had hoped to hear
no more about till people learned what
they wanted. Aud as the rrohibitory
men object to change on principle, and
their opponents have the matter all their
own way practically, tho public seem gen
orally satisfied, and the Legislature car
afford to disappoint some OF the Alder.
men of our "hard up river towns, who
are /" kiting" around to raire revenue
out Of the matter.
THE DoG LAW.
The dog law is subject upon which
the people naturally so stark mai. AuC
| 70 tell the truth, sss never saw . person
under the influence If tts "Eherp fever,
the nhen fever,v the naorus mafieaa
lns n.ania, or any other rabies, who dis
not take it for granted that the times ane
motions of the planets, as we'll as of al
sublunsry things, should be regulated
with sole reference to that special subject
| 1t is right enough that wool grower
should have legal protection for thei
sheep, as fully as that protection is accor
ded to any other property but why, il
the name of all that is reasonable, mus
they raise universal howl by Masking
general war on the dogs and enacting
"dog law ?" What they need is "shee
law" not "dog law and had they gon
to work like sensible men. they Nigh
have had an efficient one by this time
But they will never get what they nee
by making . general war upon dogs, an
seeking to exterminate the race by taxin
mastiffs, bulls, hounds, terriers, fste.
land "whelps Of low degree The
thereby array every dog owner and ever
loafer. as we'll as every petty politics
whipper-snapper in the land in favor {
the dogs. They thus make big thin
and bitter thing out of it, without th
slightest necessity.
Let the matter be set right and pr
upon the proper basis. and the public wi
: accord all that is OF any practical adyar
tage without objection. Lei the so
: law" drop. now aud forever, and enact
law for the protection Of sheep. 70
! have no interest in arrsying all US ownel
r Of city dogs against your interests By in
0 posing az exterminating tax on our harm
! less favorites. You need not array yoy
! good-nstured country neighbor again
o you personally, and against your speci
+ interests by making vanton war upo
L his toothless old dog, that lies in II
D chimney corner all night. All tn
you need in addition to your or
tefforts, aa1 vomica, and such lii
.ff nrovontivns Ia naumant At douhlo val,