The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-30
Last week, Holden, of the Far
well ESister, shot the following at

Last week, Holden, of the Far
well E&yister, shot the following at
us
.~N~ intianatiOn Of ours has placed
tlse Auditor General In IL false. position.
Neither have we intinatcd that he had
anything To do with encouraging lille
gni measures We simply stated the
Auditor General knew that the Tax
Sales, In large number Of counties In
tlii~.State, Lad, for years, been pub
li.lssa iM supplementary form, and that
he sanctioned the practice this year,
by delivering over, on order of news
paper publishers, tax lists To w. =.
i'corge & Co., Of Lansing, tobc printed
and forwarded to the several pubiisl-
.rrs. This, In substance, Is what we
stated, expressing at the same time,
our firm conviction that the supple
1ncntary system way legal, or the Au-
,litor General, knowing ms he did, all
the facts I'm the case, would report to
the contrary; and NC further expressed
Our confidence in that functiOnary By
stating that we believed him neither II
fool NOR a kuavc; and as the supple
swcntary printing is all right and legal
after nil, we take 1t for granted that
t',osc papers who took sucli decided
. stand to the contrary, are pretty much
used up for argument. In the mean-
time we call the editor Of the STAR to
&irne.".
Weh, Jimmy, we "comc to time,
,at once. You're a smart, quick
vvittea, good, whole-soulcd fellow,
and we've marked your progress
and development with genuine sat
isfaction; but when you set your
self up as a Supreme Judge, then
lit is, my boy, that your little fail
ings begin to crop out. "Comc to
timer" Of course We will ,'llolden;
for we hascn't begun yet to tell our
opinion Of the merits of this unncc-
essary practice among so many
newspaper publishers, in having
their tax lists printed i'll foreign
supplements.
AS we have no copy of Ilolden's
Revised Statutes, we simply base
our opinion OH candid reading of
the laws enacted by the Legislature
of Michigan, which laws we had
hitherto supposed governed the
State. We do not propose to try
sand discuss the merits of the law
but to take it as it exists.
AS regards the Auditor General
sanctioning the printing oftax sup
PIGMENTS by W. s. George a. Co.,
or any one else, VIC refer Holden
to Hon. Ralph Ely or his cxpcr-
fenced and able deputy. II. r. Pratt,
Esq, for the verbal information
both geAticmcn gave as-that they
had nothing whatever to do with
the supplement printing. AS iiol-
den frankly admits, the copy is dc
livcred "over on the order Of news
paper publishers" just the same as
though Holden had sent a special
messenger to bring his copy in-
stead of having it sent by mail or
otherwise. Is Holden prepared to
claim that tho Auditor General au-
thorizcs the printing OF supple
mcnts? He certainly is not; and
where there is no authority, there
can be no responsibility in the case.
The law tmss JIoldcn's) is printed
upon the back of every contract, so
that no mistakes cam I've made
through ignorance. 1t reads as
follows:
SEC. 40. The Auditor General shall
cause each of such statements to he
published In the county in which the
lands therein described arc situated,
fs~ four weeks successfully, next pre-
xissas to the first Monday in October,
I'm each year (which shall bc construed
tOmcaR four publications, once week
in one nc,cspo7)cr WIntt" d"a pro
Aishcd in such county, IL there Inc one
which shall have been established
therein two months prior to the first
day of July; aud, in case there IL no
s,Icl, newspaper printed and published
i'm the county, such statement SHAH bc
PRINTED aud DuJiishtd ia an 0OjOiD-
ina cOlnfu. IL there bc such newspaper
established therein, for the period afOrc
said; but, if there IN no such ncwspa-
per printed or Published In the same or
nm adjoining county, such sfo"cmenf
shall be pRfxrED and PUBLISHED IN
some other nc7Cs7l.,pcr to DO designated
by the Auditor General"
The Auditor General, in his prop
osition to the publisher, says, eff
you are prepared to PRINT the tax
lists as required by law, fill and
sign the acceptance DC. IT liol-
den will carefully read and co"diVy
consider the above lave ccially
those parts we have printed in ital-
jos and capitals-and then tell aus
wherein argument is necessary, We
shall try to satisfy his further thirst
for knewiedgc. "TIME"
RECENT fcaSfai storms have al
most cempi~tcly anuihilated whole
towns in Texas. and destroyed foa,
hundred hnxsx Hces: beside bund.