The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-01-09

solittle that their duties were not great
We are Of the opinion Dwould like q
convince the people he has Int thought
OF the advice Of Webster. s. ever saae.i.
ate with person lower than yourself. y
We would advise ID to advertise his sixe
the next time he solicits discussion, but
be careful lest self-esteem tell him he Il
much larger than he really IL.
u says he does not propose to convince
the people that the Commissioner systen,
would do the business the board does In
three hfths the time. We thought that
wa his meaning, when he said, will
the people examine the minutes and ask
Themselves what wss done by the Board
that any three good men could not have
done ~ we'll" FIJI.
d. says, In the same paragraph, ''that
taxes have not been collected ~ closely
~ they should b, and that they are
collected 70 thoroughly that some men
suffer thereby; one complaint will Offset
the other, &C." We presume the readers
Of the Advertiser will understand this
different. First. It was said In support
Of the township collectors. Second. The
resolution referred to WAS to throw of all
the interest which was penalty by law
OH delinquent taxpayers, OH such rs
had been neglected by the Treasurer,
simply because the time had passed for
which the law provides for selling the
real estate, and thus collecting all the
law sets forth as penalty and interest.
We supposed d was aiming ut economy.
What would the people say If the Board
was to hire some person to hunt these
matters up, ut S3,OOper day? IT the peo-
pie said nothing we cannot think it
would be right, for it il the duty Of the
Treasurer to attend tn this business. II
he made mistake who would be the
loser. u says we accused him of speak
ing Of three good men on the Board, and
fatty denies it, We said this, There Is
a joke somewhere, ID knows and highly
esteems some of the members Of the
Board, then places them all on equality,
but not with the three good men he
spoke of that could do the business the
sixteen men done in two days" We SEQ
no such accusation, nor did we mean
any. ?.
DIS argument on dollars and cents
amounts to u saving Of $50 or $50 year,
while you loose $50. Such economy
does not suit us. Suppose the Commits
sioner system was adopted. We have one
Commissioner from Upton, one from
Iowa township, aud one from Fremont.
they meet once in each month, and set
five days each time, mt So per day, would
not the per diem amount to Sd, go, the
mileage to $50, which would make S4lO,
or about that, while the bringing in of
the election returns by township officers
added to your Commissioners Ter diem
and mileage woail bring the cost II the
same to the county. ii not more. TEen
every petition for aid, for poor, for roads,
DC, must be brought by the township
officers and individuals. aud what with
loss OF time 10 taxpayers and their tav-
ern bill, | think they would rather pay
the fourth Of a mill in taxes than not
have Supervisor to do it for them, pro-
viding there was economy in favor of
the Commissioner system. But we see
none, hence it all rests on the old song
about Commissioners feeling more re-
sponsibility and qualifying themselves
better than the Board does.
We have been trying to place that
member of the Board ID speaks of, who
does not know how things are done, be-
cause he IL not OIL the committee, and
divides the responsibility between fifteen
other members, &c We believe every
member of the Board, except the Presi-
dent, is on some committee, and some
members are on three committees, and
our experience has been that reports OF
committees havebeen closely criticised
by the Board, but "a none Of the discus
sions are entered Oh the minutes d may
have supposed there is none.
MEMBER OF THE BOARD.