Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-06-11
What We Want.
A FEW QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS.

| or q Tree Terry. How can that he OBJ
tainedi In two ways. One by the
merchants renting the ferry boats and
admitting the farmers free. The
other way is by issuing bonds on the
county payable in ten or twenty years
hence. But do you think we can af-
ford to be taxed just now for bridge:
we are too poorl The tax would not
come on the people who are living here
at present. In ten years from now, if
Lewiston takes the proper course,
there will be property enough and
people enough in Nez Perez county to
pay off the debt without feeling it.
But wouldn't we have to pay the in
terest on itl You farmers who now
have to cross the ferry are paving
yearly from ten to one hundred dol
lars for ferriage, wherein your share
Of the tax on the interest would be
only a tritle, say from seventy five
cents to- one or two dollars a wear
Well, how will we 90 about building
this bridget Simply by getting up
petition and having the proper num-
Der Of citizens sign it throughout the
county, present it to the Board of
County Commissioners and they will
proceed to have the bridge built.
What is the reason that the city coun-
Gil did not lease the land to the O. r.
a. N. Co. to build bridge7 1t is be.
cause the agent of the company sold
some time ago to one of the city counci,
pair of drawers that did not wear
well, and so they would not lease the
land to the company.
Why don't the city council after re.
fusing to lease the ground to the com
pany give the people an explanation
for such REFUSAL The TELLER is open
for them if they wish to answer the
arguments of the people, but they
don't seem so disposed. Instead of
coming forward and giving some log
zeal reason like educated men, they
have answered the arguments of the
people so far by giving each other the
he land passing q resolution, unani
mously, that "Enterprise," one of the
citizens who has been writing, was a
liar This is not argument, nor is it
the words of wisdom that should come
from city fathers; had they better ar
gument, they would certainly have
given it. DO you think our ferrymen
are doing wrong in continuing to run
their ferry2 No, they are following
their Legitimate business, but when we
are speaking of bridges, &c, we do not
allude to individuals but to the public
Without our present ferries Lewiston
would DO dead altogether. The fer
ries at present are the life of Lewiston.
but bridges would be better Don't
you think that the TELLER will greatly
injure the business of the cityl The
TELLER is the mouth piece of the whole
country, not of few merchants or
other individuals. If the merchants
wish to tell the people how cheap they
will sell goods they have the advertis-
ing columns to state it to the public;
then, if it is a lie, the wrong falls on
their shoulders. But the merchants
want the editor to tell of this in his
editorial columns, at his own expense.
and let the blame then fall upon the
TELLER. The merchants of Lewiston
are not a business class, as is shown by
the way they represent the business in
terests of the city in the advertising
columns as compared with the mer
chants in our adjoining towns. Did
not the merchants build the road on
the hill from the ferry to Genesseel
No, if it. had not been for Mr.. Silcott.
who made two.thirds Of the road IN
that hill, the people of Lewiston
would now be feeding upon them
selves, Do you think the people out
side OF Lewiston would he willing to
build bridges, county buildings, &c.l
Among the objections offered by the
people outside of Lewiston, one is that
the county is soon to be divided and
they cannot afford to help Lewiston.
In this they are wrong. If Nez Perez
county should build county buildings
to-day, and the county Should be di
vided tomorrow, these burdens and
profits would he settled equally be-
tween those remaining in Me- Perez.
county and those going out INTO the
new county. Our great drawback and