The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-03-27

the iamber country south of here, where
we expect 10 kave trade with the lumber.
men logging there every winter; and not a
dollar shall be put in any swamp hole,
dredge. sand bank, or any such like project,
SO long as our Supervisors have ANYTHING to
do with it, or so long "a can exert anv in
fuence in this way myself We have had
some magnifcentts1 exp nditures of this
kind few years ago, and shall take very
good care they shall not be repeated here
again.
In respect TO taxes remitted", cur truth.
ful(!) correspondent saws During the four
years under review, there has been RENTED
OF legitimate taxes to parties in no manner
as on exception entitled, the sum of 81, ,9n2. f"
This assertion, in substance, is entirely
false. No remission of the original taxes
has been made to any person. remis sion
of interest, OF a small amount-probably
three or four hundred dollars-has been
made to few persons to induce them to
county ever remitted dollar OF the original
taxes; and the main bulk of this sum-
probably 81 50o-has been proceeds of dis.
count on sale of tax liens, the original own
e,s not hdving paid Tie taxes, and of this last
named sum 81, ,725 is discount on loss sus.
taiued by the county being obliged to sell
the tax liens upon certain lands on which no
taxes could ever be realized, the owners
having partially stripped the lands of the
timber, and then abandoned them to the
county, refusing to pay any taxes. IF the
COUNT, being desirous to realize money!
chooses TO sell these tax liens for ,t,ver
they will bring. it is nobody's business how
The taxes stand; the county wants money
and desires to sell, and when the Supervis-
ors do it in this instance, they do no more
than right, as any practicable person would
do-sell for whatever they can get.
In the light AS interpreted by our truth
ful(y) correspondent, the item of ''S2, 902 re
nitted taxes contrary to law" will appear as
favoritism awarded to certain taxpayers, to
the detriment of the balance, when not a
dollar has gone for any such purpose; and
snch misrepresentation noised in this man.
ner, can only have the effect to retard the
p"ying Of tares, the taxpayers presuming
with good reason, that there is nothing to
be gained by paying taxes promptly, when
the Board of Supervisors are disposed to re-
init ia this manner; herein causing detriment
and damage to the county, affecting all alike
here.
With regard to expenditures, street i'm
provements, roads. bridges AMI the miner
disbursements for .aIaries, fuel, stationery.
poor, etc, the amounts in some instances
onl' in last named iten.-may be a little
high, considering hard times, but not un
reasonably high except in two instances, the
salaries and other amounts pad Clark and
Rclf, the mea who are now m king all the
noise about it. la their instance the Board
of Supervisors being influenced by claims
upon their charity, have paid these men
more than they earned, and good deal more
than they deserved.
In view of the extreme pressure affecting
at present all branches of trade and labor
in this place, an attempt is made to charge
tn whole thing to the operations Of our
Board of Supervisors, as if they had any
thing to do with it, or could do anything.
Our merchants have, III view of the re-
sultant effects of nard time curtaied their
stocks of goods, and in fact there is very
little merchandise, in general line, here
now, such as is necessary to furnish families
their outfits; so, when we are obliged to 60
elsewhere to buy what We want, We canno:
get it without cash money. County scrip
will not now, nor has it ever, procured us
anything outside of this place; hence, it mat
ters little whether our scrip is high or low,
fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety or even
ninety five cents on the dollar, so long as it
Is uncurrent money, it is worth nothing to
US, as for anything we want outside this place.
To clarge this depression of our scrip aud
hird times, to the proceedings of our Boari
OF Supervisors. Is simply absurd folly, for
the Supervisors alike with rybody else
in thus place, feel the effects of the pressure
of bard times, and cannot help themselves or
anybody else, although they may be ever so
willing 10 do alI and every thing they possibly
can.
II we represent the fortunes and expec-
tancies of this place IS aboard a boat out
upon the lake, and We have a terrific storm
hard times and severe pressure-and the
captain, engineers and crew OF the boat are
eIerting their best endeavors to take care OF
Us, it is useless for those beggars to keep
bowling and yeping, for it cannot aid or as
sist US, or cause the storm to subside, and
they may just as we'll spare their lungs the
at its own proper time without any regard to
their noise or bidding.
The attempt To throw discredit and
odum upon our Board of Supervisors by the
fraudulent assertion that '.sad Board have
drawA funds largely i'll excess of the tax
levy, the misrepresentation of the facts in
regard to the expenditures aud the unprin-
cipied manner In which assertions are made
to throw dlscredit upon the 6na icia conii-
tion OF this county, struggling As it is for eI
issenee these hard times. and IN which we
are all individually concerned, every one of
VI. deserves in strongest terms the censure