The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-06-02
BOISE COUNTY FINANCES.

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its editor kaoWs as much about as a hors,
does of astronomy. The substance of it.
stupid leaders on that subject ls-Slocum
the same old threadbare theme which has
been the subject of its song for ten months
After laboring over Slocum so long, one
would naturally expect something new
Most men, if they expected to attract any at.
tention to subject hsckneyed by the tri-
weekly reiterations of nearly year. would
endeavor to dress the matter up into a more
attractive style-but it is the same old thing
| With the Statesman. ALI that its editor has
to do, where subjects are scarce, is to repuo-
lssh any Gifts old articles on Slocum, and
give it new head. Each aFticle on that
subject is only transcript of a huAdred
which have preceded it, This idea seems
to afflict the Statesman that Boise county
and Slocum are one and the same subject.
There is no versatility. Like parrot its ed
itor sits on his tripod, and squalls-Sloeum,
Slocum, Slocum. Any brainless fool can do
as much. If its editor appreciated the esti-
nation with which bis hercuean efforts in
shouting Slocum, are held in this County, he
would transfer that portion of his literary la
boFss to some negro, with dinner bell, and
send him out through the streets to bawl,
"Slocum" till his throat was sore. Such
proclamation would attract thousand times
more respect and attention than the States
mans everlasting ding dong about what il
knows nothing The people in. this Basin
are supposed to be acquainted With their own
affairs, and fully capableof managing their
own business, without the assistance of any
usedup Boise City politician. They know
as much about Mr.. Slocum and about this
county, as the editor of the Statesman does.
The voters of Boise county are not such chill
dren and fools as the Statesman takes them
to be. On the contrary, they are fully capa-
bic OF estimating the value of this declama-
tion-made to deceive and prejudice them for
the benefit of a repudiated, worthless set oil
political. hacks, hrsngering to get back into
their places, to renew the robberes and
swindles WHICH brought the finances of this
county to their present condition. Sensible
people here have learnedto look with quiet
coptempt upon such purrile scriohl;ngs, and
to. wonder thatthe author find nothing better
to do.
AS for the County Hospital, no one regrets
the necessity for making different arrange
nents, more than the county commissioners.
They have exhausted every resourse in vain
sndeavor to carry on the institution without
he means to execute their desires. Who is
responsible for this want of funds? Whoey-
r wants an answer, will End it in the rec
'rds of the first two years of misanlesin this
county. Who sunk this county into this in
'xtrlcable sea of Indebtedness? Who, but
he Republican officials that fattened on its
wealth during the best days of this Basin,
md when driven from their feast left the
county well-picked carcass for Democratic
'flcials to resuscitate. Has the Statesman
orgotteno that over SIXTY thou sand dollars of
he present debt was accumulated during the
wo years the county was in Republican
lands? That paper may have forgotten it, +,
'ut the people here who have paid the taxes
lave not.
All the financial difficulties of Boise county,
including this last one of the Hospital, are
he results of that RepnbliGan debt. The
ounty has been staggering under the, load s
yer since that debt was contracted. It is t
nth counties as it is with individuals. The q
lan who starts out in life, bearing the weight /
an overwhelming debt, in country where S
be tendency of business is constantly down 8
Yard, property continually depreciating, and /
evenues perpetually diminishing, has thou I
and chances against him to one in his favor 8
very business man can appreciate the posi- T
.sn. It is SO with this county. It.has been !;
breed to carry the weight ofsthis Republican :
ebt until it has well nigh broken down with T
= The great FIRE of 1865, which swept away q
NO millions worth of taxable property from b
ne Assessors books, and made US ell poor, y
1as the finishing. blow to county finances {.
o expect the county to diminish its indebt- a
dness in the same year-that tw0-thirds of ALL :;
ne property within its boundares.is DESTROY r
q, IS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS when the an h