The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-02-04
Franklin, February 2, 1869.

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wonderful IN conception, how admirable
in design Here ignorance and awkward
ness race against intelligence and ability,
and very often win the prize. Tell me
no longer that ability and talent are requi-
site for mans pecuniary elevation. Look
at our Commissioners! Twelve or thir-
teen years ago one Of them was pulling
shingles for the now defunct firm ofO.
H. Plat & Go. In addition to his occu-
patton as 'shingle puller' he perform
ed many of the mental chores of the es-
Enlistment, and all the drudgery. Gaze
at him to-day! For the small bait of
$40 "store pay he became Poor Com
missioner and has just succeeded in ''gob-
bling" $4,000, of the peoples money. Was
it talent or enterprise that led to this re-
suit ? Not a bit of either; talent he has
none, enterprise he has less. What was
it then? All, there's the rub! Can it be
possible that $40, invested in a County
Board could multiply so fruitfully, or was
it because Mixes genius enabled him to
procure the s,oeetest middlings for the
destitute poor? Some body tell can't;
though 1 can probably give as good guess
| as any one.
Oh, Mike there is terrible account
between you and the paupers, which l
fear will not be settled until the final day
You came from land where a guilty
conscience pricks severely, and you are
fast fastening to that bourn from whence
no traveller returns. If there is anything
wilfully wrong, make speedy restitution
or if you feeced us through ignorance or
mistakes, say SO, and We Il freely forgive
If you obstinately refuse to explain mat
tiers fear greatly for your future spirit
| ual welfare for
alike, Oh, Mikel You'll get your fairin
! In hell they II roast thee like herrin."
if your books IS not all sthrate
The Commissioner Of the First District
is another remarkable man. Fleeing
from the oppressive laws of the once evil
starred Germany, he sought refuge in
the Gland of the Free and permanently
settled in our fair, far famed Newton.
| Through the ever to be remembered ex-
| ertions of his natural brother Fred. he
| became Poor Commissioner in December
1867 since which time he has driven a
traffic with real and Imaginary paupers,
erecting spacious buildings and otherwise
improving his own estate out of his hard
earned proceeds. His 'pauper district
| comprises seven of the fairest and best
towns in the County, but they are paupel
only in name. Meme don't contain on.
yet pays $500. poor tax. Liberty ditto
Eaton and Schleswig may receive few
struggling dollars, but re deey the hon
orable commissioner or his brother Fred
to show where and how even $500, wer,
| expended upon the poor in the sever
towns comprising the First Assembly Dis
trict. Yet those said towns pay in tn
aggregate more than Three Thousand
Dollars poor tax Isn't tho Hon. Com
missioner both "smart" and s'shrewd'
! in all the modern phases Of the words
Isn't there screw loose somewhere
Pity that intellectual Germany eyer los
Carl valuable services aud a greater pit
still that zoe ever received them. Won
der if Lorigan, Kirby or Maboney eve
! taught his idea to shoot into the Poo
r Fund;or did he acquire the extraordinary
skill displayed from his able brother Fred