The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-08-22
The Borough Tax Duplicate Again.

Gates, with "epithets and ridicule." -
Bosh! We submit that that article is
both corteous and parliamentary; but we
submit TO an honest public that the two
articles in reply, from the parsonage
above alluded to, are brimful of the most
bitter, malicious, unprovoked and libel
Gus epithets we have, in a long while,
seen published in journal making any
preteusious to decorum. This peculiarly
fine parsonage sets out by accusing us of
using :" lies and misrepresentation to
Justify our course" We plead not gull
ty, sir, and defy you to produce facts to
controvert the plea. He then; drawing
upon his Imagination (Which is, doubt
less, viviGed by his knowledge of the way
things are done up for the Den,ocraO,
accuses DR.. Lautz of writing our article,
and besides declares that it was through
him that the town council was influenced
to take the course it did, 4 wonderful
man, indeed, is the Blacking Brush, aud
foolish too to rear so heavy a structure
upon foundation of mere sand. He
next accuses the Secretary of the Coun.
Gil with lodging complaint against Mr.
Trocb, and that. previous to that COM
plant, the Council were In favor Of Mr.
Troch. a little inquiry has satisfied US,
and would have satisfied the leader Of the
Democrat junto, that this is false all
through. The following are the facts: =
The Council met in their Office that
night, with two Of the members fully i'm
pressed with the duty of supporting Mr..
Rees, while another came fully resolved
to support Mr. Troch, and another came
neutral. The Secretary was asked what
he knew of Mr.. Troch as collector =
He promptly stated that he knew nothing
against him. except that he was looked
upon as being what is called slow col.
| lector. He was then asked how Mr.
Rees stood on last years duplicates, when
he produced a report of Mr.. Rees's col
lections, which showed, he remarked,
that Mr.. Il. was one Of the fastest colec-
tors the Council had had for years. The
Councilman in favor of Mr.. Troch then
stated why he thought Mr.. L. should
have the collection of the Duplicates, and
then the other two stated why they thought
| Mr.. ReeS should be made collector; when
the neutral member, after asking a few
questions, asked for vote, which was
taken, he voting for Mr. Rees Thus the
matter was settled. The motive attribu-
ted to the Secretary, We believe to be as
| false, as the most earnest and solemn pro
testations of the Blackiug Brush have, to
our knowledge, on more than one occa-
sion, proved themselves to be.
This base falsifier has the audacity to
state that Mr.. Rees " acknowledges that
be was $500 behind when Lantz pre-
pared the article" We would have you
understand, sir oracle, that we prepare
oar own articles; and by actual facts we
happen to know you are lying again. =
| Mr. Recess last receipt is dated August
9th, and we prepared our article after the
payment was made aud receipt taken =
Mr.. Rees knew not the time our article
was prepared, and, therefore, could tell
nothing about the matter, if be had been
so disposed Further than this, Mr..
Rees says he said nothing of the kind.
We are told by this Backing Brush,
again, that Mr.. Troch's duplicates amount
ed to Sl9L17 more than we stated they
did. Our statement was taken from the
County Auditors published report, which
will be found, in the Democrat of year
1865, to be just as we reported it. If
Mr. Troch's duplicate amounted to that
much more than the County Auditors
charge him, then he must have been that
much farther behind with his collections
than we charged him with being. All
but, says Blacking Brush, Mr.. Troch col
lected up his duplicates six months be-
fore the two years that he had to collect
them in were up! Suppose he did? What
does it amount to? All the Council CON
tended for was that Mr. Rees was the
quicker collector and, therefore, the bet
ter of the two; and your figures show
as well as ours that the Council were
right, and so to justify their action. You
state that in eighteen months Troch col
lected S2457 "a, while we have proved,
by facts conclusive, that Rees, in less
| than year, collected and paid into the
Borough Treasury Si969.67.
The Junto complain Of the smalness
of 9 Scribe Lantz's" tax. BY referring
to the duplicates of Borough Taxes for
this year, we find that he pays within So
of as much Borough Tax as Backing
Brush, Greenwald and the little Captain
united.
Such are the weak and himsy, but base
aud malicious charges preferred by
sneakiug villain to justify him in de-
nouncing the Town Council and their
Secretary as being recreant to their duty !;
and so easily are those charges torn to
pieces and scattered to the four winds by
the touchstone of truth. If, as is asser-
ted, the I" devil is the father of liars" aud