The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-03-12

culing the scts q the Board Of Super
visors, and the want Of more than town.
ship notoriety, showing It once that hs
is of that class who h arrayed against
the plain honest laborer, aud disposed
to underrate and bsiittle their enbrs at
self-government. We see much to ID
mirs in our town friends, but dislike 10
see them It any tlnAA Try to make tssls
of the bone and sincw Of our country,
and then be 80 ungrateful for favors re.
ceived.. Give jsssttoe % all, partially to
none. Let all try TO support our gov
eminent by some useful calling, not try
to always be supported out of the public
treasury. Let the source that produces
all our wealth be projected, guarded and
promoted by law !. ~ those who bear
nearly all expenses, not be compelled to
give all way, and live off the offall.-
Happy to learn that Upton glorifics
Cedar county and it, Inhabitants; we
hope the feeling may continue even
should our rural districts succeed In
guarding our rights. The Board has
been trying to pay our Indebtedness,
created in a great part by County
Judge, who is nothing more nor less
than u Commissioner elected by a gener-
al vote. and the safety Of the system Is
lucidly displayed In the acts of this
would any Board Of six
teen men have made so expensive II
blunder. BY the wise forethought Of
the founders Of our government, the
L. S. Senate, also our senatorial dis
tricts, giving equal rights aud guarding
the rights Of all, was instituted for the
purpose of preventing large towns and
cities aud monopolies from expressing
weaker localities. Towns now have
their represe natives, we have no more.
d inquiries Of Us if three-fourths Of the
matter acted on by committee of the
Board, Is not acted on without further
investigation. We think the Board
have commercially, If not AMPLY scruti-
nizcd them long, windy speeches have
not occupied much of their time, but the
system being new in our State, we hope
that it, as all other systems founded on
correct principles, will correct its own
errors AS it advances-''progression" is
the motto Of the age. .H2a #f..' @@.f."
ID wants to know why the tax of 1867
Is SO much beyond former years? d
very we'll knows the cause, and his OBJ
ject, rs I suppose, Is to lay the blame all
to the Supervisor system. In The sum-
mer OF 1867 our county treasury became
dry Of Casino ordinary county order
could be paid, nor the per diem and
mileage for two terms OF the Board as
late as Christmas last, county orders
would only be received for county tax.
Consequently heavy county tax was in
dispensable to prevent bankruptcy. The
supposed needed levy was made for
county purposes, the State tax by the
State, the school tax from school dis
tricts, and 1 find that over one half OF
all my tax is for the last object, and
quarter ratio the items of soldiers mOn.
ument, gopher scalps aud imbeciles,
wi,iah have not till recently been felt
by the taxpayers. We feel that the
Board have not exceeded their duty in
the county levy. Judging by the past
it would be no less by Commissioners.
II we would reduce our taxes, the Board
would extend old county Indebtedness.
Now, as we hope, the crisis in our coun-
ty finances is passing by, let our future
appropriations be governed by our
means, and let the people vote for no
appropriation which they will be un.
willing to pay.
Yours, &C., IL.
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wives and seven hundred children, and