The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-04-03

| Ahuchies t1heir own as we'll as others) of
those VINO tempt to pnrloin the peoples
money, no matter under what disguise
Here is an illustration in point: County
Board met jan %, lS73-D. Geo Morrison
ana victor Desimva, two members present
'c'or voted 'eorge $500 to go to Madison
on George voted $3.50 for Victor. old bill
of plank.
And they do say that the sa,se plank had
been paid for once before How is THAI
captain Desimval This was good day for
supervising-the two dividing between them
nearly eight hundred dollars.
Another item: Eighteen hundred dollars
gwen outright, made a present of to the
Register of Deeds.
That place is one of fees only and purely.
and no salary or allowance besides fees was
ever IN any manner authorized.
Every dollar dealt out thus in violation of
IA" IS do10f uh,ch can be recoye9ed back.
lie Supervisors may as well make a note of
MS tor future reference and instruc ion
hose money are you giving away? And
"hat Is Your authority Are there anv ac-
counts tied and sworu to bv Mr. Morrison
showing Jhat this bill for 81 0 is correc
ana just? And do you know that the staff
ute torbids YOU to audit claims unless the
items ale given and sworn to And forbids
YOU to issue orders except on sworn ac-
counts? Look these questions over and say
how you stand on personal liability and con
sider what you will do as to the next claim
OF the kind that may come up.
Ten hundred and fifty dollars paid to out
side attorneys in this place, while the District
Attorney in office failed in no single instance
to perform every and any legal service when
ever required This uumannerly treatment
of an officer, as well as dishonest application
of public money, in the teeth of the law,
would, in any other county, condemn those
who did it to be put out, and eternally kept
out, of the way Of ever doing it again.
Nearly $4,000 have been abated from taxes
and tax liens under circumstances which
called for no special favor in behalf of the
persons relieved. This sets hard on the
stomach of people who pay full measure, and
is not easily forgotten.
And so we might continue the enumera-
tion-n fact, hasty glance at the books
shows more than $4,000 of similar abstrac-
tions of our money at the hands of these Su-
pervisors, one or more or all, being present
when it was done, and not b. cath of oh
lection ever being offered.
After all this, there is $4,000 left to be
accounted for. The Supervisors, person.
ally have glued to chunk weighing IS 5,476.-
4S, that we know of, to say nothimng about
what remains to be unearthcd
Where is the S64, 900? 1t might as well
be summed up at once, under the head OF
evaporated, leeched through, 'sojered" away,
spent on Capt. Victor's expeditions towards
the st. Croix and up Sixth street, thrown
into gulies and bitches, into the bollows Of
Second Street, used in election raids upon
drift lU ,b,,
it would do the most good in making labor
ers the most dependent and subservient when
voting time comes. By all which mastery
mabeuvering, the April campaign uniformly
winds up with giving our worthy friends. one
or more of them, new lease of the job OF
bossing and plundering this county. And
this is where the balance of the money has
gone TO. The accounts, from a hasty and
imperfect examination, show some of the
personal receipts for supervising, superintend
ing, supply &c, as follows:
Y. Descimval- ,677.T0
D. OoIllef z, aO.2S
A. Soderlund Cos 80
The items are gwen elsewhere in this pa
per. The first two have done fairly well
from the business it would seem from three
years pickings above given Mind ye, this
is only surface show; Good God, what "a
bonanza there is further down, only give
them three more years for mining.
The third member has made more mod
crate record, and it shows him to be what
am inclined to think he ia, to-wit, fair and
well disposed man by himself, yet without
weight or influence sort of silent partner
While the concern has wa1ed fat and saucy
there is emptiness in the treasury, distress
in the community, no bottom to credit, no
end to spurious orders, no pry for work, no
life in business, no hope, and yet the board
expect to get reelected by the votes of labor
ing men, wheedling them with the promise
of work on the roads or somewhere. And
the intimidation is, that if they don't vote
right, that is, for the present trio, no work
will be given them. Let me ask such voters
wherein they are one whit better off TO-DAY
tor the SlOO,OO0 that has been spent under
these mighty men OF finance, or some of them
during the last five years? In 1870 your or
der would buy quite or nearly loo cents per
dollar of -four, meat, tea &c. u IS you that
they pretend this large sam Of money has gone q,
and such is the miserable condition of our
affairs that now you can hardly buy for your
dcllar order, 80 cents worth of bread for
your families, and soon the played out paper
will serve only to light pipe or 10 put to
some other menial end
Five years ago we were out of debt and
had a surplus and an order was nearly as
good greenback. To day over $4,000 of
this paper is outstanding, as | am told by the
county and town clerk, and not cene pres
ent or prospective to pay 1t with The coun-
~ owes the schools nearly s., 800 in cash,
aud three quarter of the 1874 taI is collected
and most OF the other quarter will in May go
TO ta1 sale, bringing no money. But the
same fellows are up again for reelection. !.
with as much confidence in the result as if
they carried the office in their breeches pock-
et-as ifvoters were as much bound to 20 for
them as dog is to follow his master.
Who are these chaps that ride such high
gait on our backs, and lord il year after year ?
clinging Ike leeches to the supervisorship
Do their education. personal worth, or pre-
yious condition entitle them to such prom-
nenee in public affairs? | shall take no Spe-
eial objection to their foreign birth or recent
citizenship Considered by itself, it signifies
not under what S;tn, or what king man was
born. | am not curious whether one can hew
log, another can mir drink, or a third can
hammer tap. or that the individuals in ques-
ton are IN humble circumstances, and contrib
ute but drop in the bucket to the tares which
they squander | make here no objection TO
( tHNet NHi'So 10 @''No, '@S' ~ " say 'uo' tii0
parties can have, as they do have, little or no
eaacation and training for public affairs; little
or no real knowledge OF the statutes and rules
which govern the action of town and county
officers, and very slight appreciation of the
needs of this community.
But | protes. against that state of society
which tolerates for a mohent the wretched
misconduct that has brought US to the bruk
of baEkruntcV aud run; that state of arow sy
torpor. hieh sees, feels and knows the dan
ger but cannot lift band to strike ii aside.
Is il stupefaet on. what Is that we have