The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-07
CONSOLIDATION"

some statements had made, in which, in its
usual 6EacE.QG tyle, it throws dirt, and In
q manner that would degrade any gentleman
TO pOt-ho~se politician,-of which it smell Is
strongly-sccuecs me Of penring dirty para
graphs, OF i9pnaoncs, and an utter Disregard
oFtruth, &C. believe it Is generally con
ceded, that when men in the defense Of g
principle forget to be gentlemen. and take to
s1ong and base V1Jfyirsg, that the cause they
r.pfesent is & bad one. and nothing manly
can be said in It's defense, or else the defender
is chin deep in the scum and filth of moral
depravity and his illusions and froth are only
indicative of depraved nature and low intel
lect. In one article he quotes from Racine
paper, and states that the total ex ense for
the poor of that Co. for 1871, is S. .527.44, and
She reason it is so high Is, extensive repairs
were made upon tho poor house farm. 3 barn
was built, and fences we're repaired and built.
Bat he fails to mention that the population of
Racine Co. is nearly double that Of our Co.
and the IA turSl inference would
be that the poor expense would be
proportiOnately larger, but we find on ex
animation that our Co. poor expenses are
taking the poor expense of the Towns and
Kenosha s5,2ee.2s, being 81, 739. "a, higher
than, in Racine Co. But be figures the
interest on the value of the
poor farm in that Co. at ten per
cent. and finds it to be S75s.6S, which would
still leave a balance in favor of Racine Co. 81
$9Sl.l6. 1t will be remembered that in the
FIRST statement made in the Repw6lican in re
gard to the Co. poor expenses of Racine Co.
That they were 100000, in excess of the
| poor farm revenue.
Adding tbs interest as he gives it, and
the total cost as given above, and il amounts
to s42S5 81, leaving sery small revenue from
the farm. The denial of the statement I
made, that names were put On 8 petition
fAvoring division Of the Co can be proven
ii necessary, 81 | again so informed myself in
conversation with one of the parties to-day.
In reply to the query"What has the city don.
since Ike division OF this Co. that should be
remembered with bitterness by our Country
friends ?" and also to the statement, awe
are aware that certain men in this Co. have
for years been hostile to this city, but tina,
hostility is baselesS aad unreasonable" 1t
may be SO to the writer Of that statement. for
1 opine it is viewed through differeR: glasses
and from different standpoints. First then.
Renosha instigatsd division of the Co. it
WAS done without the wish, consent and vots
OF the people. Second, tho "Ware House,
frauds, IN which through the conniyance OF
henosha men hundreds of farmers lest their
wheat in store there, and with many, it was
nearly their all. Third, the strenuous effort
made by citizens of Kenosha to bond the Co,
o build the KeneshadE Rockford RR Fourth
toe late effort made to have the Co. assume
the city Indebtedness. All these circum-
stances the writer of the above query knows
by some experience-~And if ne tn inks it i.
Itrgotten, let him travel through theCountrV
and investigate, and if he
Isupposes that even the most
Econsummate tools will not learn to be-
ware OF those, who have taken advantage a.
every opportunity, and pursued very courss
Ga ELEVATE the Country from the City, then
he must inwardly credit Us as fit subjects fol
tunatic asylum, and the effort to create al
other state OF Affairs as nothing. We car
assure him that he Is greatly mistaken, the
movement is only the little stonecut from the
mountain, that Is destined to be victorious
in the end. Again he says, 1--WE endeavored
o prove last week that united Co. govern
'nent would be less expensive to tho inhabi-
SAINTS or Racine Co. but more expensive TO
those OF this" When united the suppositio,
lie, the taxes will be equal, if less expensive t.
Racine SO it will be to our part of the Co.
Not enc ccuntryman In hundred has bust
ness OF his own that would take him TO tn,
County seat once year, If he did, his expex
g. would be loss than the extra tax he now
pays as we re, beside, if farther from tn,
i county seat, half the petty cases that nov
: burden our courts, would never appear, ant
the country would be richer by hundreds O
dollars, that now find their way into lawyer
pockets. Again he says 49, 900 people ar,
just as we'll represented by one Assemb vmal
e as 5000 with three" Not when that on
. Assemblyman is from the city, and wedde,
solely to the city's interest-we've tried that
aod we know. His argument that the decreast
D m population Of Kenosha Co. does not prov,
shat she has been less progressive and pros
porous than Racine, 10 about in keeping will
he rest of his would be 6ht67ng Perhaps out
SIDE OF the cities Of Racine and Kenosha, eacl
: Co. has held it's own in population and valu
alton, and that the average is equal, but h,
knows better than that when be writes it. b,
knows too, that Kenosha has sunk, and SUM
herself, and the County eorrespondingly with
: 1t, while Racine has raised, and raised her
self, and the County correspondingiy with
finer, and yet in fertility of soil and access tc