The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-01-30

ASOSsOS
men. who have already signed the
petition-by al sorts Of balderdash
and Misrepresentation, to Sign thei.
so-called remonstrsnce. It Is IN insult
to mans intelligence to request him
when he has already signed paper
with his eyes open and possessed Of all
his reasoning hculties-to sign pa
per today directly in opposition to
what he signed Yesterday. The favor
tie argument with these chronic grum-
blers is that. if the present aid is not
enough to complete tho road, in q few
more years the county would vote
more aid. The argument is so absurd
that it Is hardly worth noticing. but,
for the benefit of the ..enlightened''
we quote section from the law un-
der which the bonds were voted:
Chap. l06, Sec. IL. If any county,
town, city or village shall issue and
deliver to any railroad company any
bonds in pursuance of the provisions OF
this act. it shall not thereafter issue
or deliver any bonds or incur any liza.
bility in aid of the construction of the
railroad Of such company by virtue
of the authority of any other law
of this state.
Another poiut raised by the grum-
blersE lis, that there is no specified time
when the railroad shall be completed,
and that the company may draw in
terest on the bonds annually and not
finish the road until the twentieth
year; this is also very .:thin,'' for the
proposition most emphatically states
that no bonds shall be issued to the
company until the railroad IS COM
pleted from Princeton to Anoka and
ready for the passage Of cars thereon.
But, for the sake of argument. we will
presume that the proposition does not
specify when the road shall be built.
here is a law which gives the county
commissioners authority to designate
when said aid shall be earned, thus
his .pet point Of the fault-fnders is
ike all the rest-..absurd. This section
$ from the same act as above quoted:
Sec. Is, It shall be lawful for any
own, county, city or village which
hall have voted aid to any railroad
company, or which shall hereafter
'ote aid to any railroad company.
without limiting the time when such
i'd shall be earned by the company,
y the authorities thereof, to fix and
INIT the time when such aid shall be
armed. Provided, that the time 50
xed shall not be less than one ~
ear from the date of giving notice to
1cn railroad company. of the fixing
1ch limit, and if the aid shall not be
armed in accordance with the condi.
ons upon which it was voted within
1e time so fixed by such authorities,
len such aid shall be forfeited.
Now. gentlemen. you need not find
ult with the manner in which thu
'nds were voted, everything was
me according to the strict letter of
e law, and because the friends of the
ilroad availed themselves of the law
'hich allowed the great majority of
sldent tax papers to have a voice In
g matter the grumblers are beside
emselves with rage, for the reason
at' they, small minority. could not
lie the majority. Pity that the lit.
state Of Rhode island with its
$1,000 inhabitants has not got the
ne voice in the U. S. house of repre-.
natives as the great state of New
'rk with its 4 600, 900 people. Talk
out taxes; great Scotland! the men
% are in favor of the railroad paw
e-tenths Of the taxes.--for proof Of
assertion we refer the doubling
omases to the auditors books.
YES, Morrison County is blessed with
lodel anditor-for putting money