The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-02-11

The amount of outside relief alone CIV
en- in Mr.. Mahoney's district, is placed
by Z. at $3,24O, nearly as much as the
whole expense of the poor in all the
county only few years ago. Has not
this bad look? Again we quote ::
but suppose that Mr.. Mahoney has
been imposed upon
| II he has been in the county SO long,
and IS such good business man he
ought not to be imposed upon.
by lying applicants for outside re-
llef, and has erred in his judgement in
| giving relief to those who ought not to
have had 1t Is he to be denounced as
scoundrel and cheat for that?'
| Certainly if he allowed himself to be
imposed upon, When it was manifestly
tor his interest to be, people will say hard
things about him for it, still We do not
sanction the use of such terms, except
when applied to Rings formed for the
express purpose of defrauding honest
people.
Those who charge Mr.. Mahoney with
the intent to defraud Mrs. Kelley out of
the price of a coffin, we understand, do not
claim that it was done since he was poor
| commissioner T. however does not
deny the charge, he only wants to show
| that it was done years ago.
| tits claimed we are hypocrites because
we expose the addition of thousands to
the poor expenses but stand up in de-
Tense of the Village Board that has more
than trippled the village taxation in the
past year. Wonder if CT" thinks his
readers all fools, or considers himself re-
markedly cunning '"Trippled the vii
lage taxation; )" yes, it is trippled, surely
for year ago there was no tax raised at
all Awful smart, arn't We, TIP But
since the Village Board has been brought
up we would say their transactions have
been regularly published, and why has T.
remained silent while such great wrong
was being openly done under his very
| nose? Furthermore there is not repub-
liean Official in Manitowoc County who is
not perfectly willing to answer any CUES
tons which the humblest taxpayer de-
slres to ask, and still farther, when their
reports are published at the end of their
official terms they are not so obscure that
no one can tell anything about them. On
the contrary they are full and explicit and
give correct account Of their steward
ship. 1t this is not SO let US hear who
the man is that has done wrong, make
some definite charge against him backed
by figures and we will use our whole infu-
ence to have his case investigated and, if
he Is guilty, to have him punished.
Now we consider we have answered
Us arguments more fully by far than
they merlted. but it is due to the people,
who have to foot the extravaganza bills
complained of; it is due to Mr.. Mahoney,
whom it is alleged we have libelled; and
1t Is due to ourselves, standing as we do
charged with ''having our tongue set on
fire Of hell and with ''heart black as
death, - that this matter should be fully
ventilated. And we would add, whatever
Is charged to our account we have no
partisan end to gain In this affair, and we
have no spite against Mr.. MIN fact we
have never had any dealings with him to
speak of-but this we do know, and T.
himself admits it, that many thousands
of the peoples money have been added
to the poor expenses and the Poor posi-
lively assert they did not get the money,
or at least did not get what it is claimed
they did Now let Mr. NJ. make clear
statement of all the transactions of the
Board Of which he was the head, and the
people will be satisfied as Tweezers sug-
gests, even if he has been led to do wrong,
bat not till then, for it should be under
stood that, in this country, officials are
the servants Of the people, and not their
lords.