Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-01-21
ASKING CHARITY.

we DIht tHc Ncdh spot Ill sDHlc
mems makeup which forces them
to ask it. But a man had best quit,
and is supposed to be out of indie
pendent and purely legitimate bust
ness, when he falls back on the
charity of this world to bring health
to decomposition. II must be a
horrible feeling to have such a dis
ease. There certainly is nothing
worse than ambition in the last sta
ges of cancer. It's gnawing must be
a terrible sensation.
And just such men are asking
charity in Union county. They
want it to buy and bury their mis-
takes. But they have no scruples as
to how they get it. The widow and
the Woodworking farmer arc asked
to donate to the healing Of their be-
scabbcd ambitions. A dollar is a
dollar no matter from whom it is
stolen, is their motto. To rule or
ruin is SO deeply rooted in these
walk ing cemeteries that an African
king would suicide if permitted to
see a comparison. If old Pagan
were living he would weep himself
to death at the loss of his profession,
and Aaron Burr's negotiations with
the British government are knocked
into a cooked hat by a dicker perpe-
trated and consummated on the tax
payers of Union county by these
seeds for undertakes who do a cred
it business.
Well, what have they done? They
got the beard Of County Commiss-
toner's to act as a commission Of char
ity. The board fell in with the idea
like shitepokes grabbing after cma-
ciatsd tadpoles. They opened up
the treasury and told them to reach
in. But who foots the bills? One
Of the board and three or four of the
most conspicuous charitable subjects
do not. If they do, the tax books
lie. But they do not stop with fail
ing to pay to pay their own taxes.
but fight for professional dead beats,
who wish to dodge that kind of debt.
They go on just the same and ask
the honest tax payer to contribute
to the purchase ofmedicine for the de
ceased ambitions Of themselves and
a half dozen %hangers-on. Itlooks as
if the tax payers of Union county
must pay the running expenses of a
hospital for disabled politicians
kind of a compromise between a
fondling hospital for unclaimed
children and the resort of purely
specially doctors. The tax payer
must foot the bills-he cant dodge
it. II is charity with a vengence.
And how do you like it? Every
tax payer in Union county has a
financial interest in this home for
the feeble and decaying. By your
vote you buried them years ago, but
like Banquo's ghost they will not
down-not any. They come now
and ask you to give them a donation
to buy salve for their sores, and the
commissioners whom you elected to
represent you are doing just rs re.
qucsted by those politicians.
Subjects Of charity! It sounds
mellow to the ear. Union COUNTY
: home for political orphans, shyster,
and rotten ambitions How pleas
ant to contemplate. A bill Of fart
Of broth for nauscated stomachs
How humane our board Of Commits
sioners. They don't want any cru
city to animals; but they want 9th
ers 70 pay for tempering the winds
|. So long as the public foots the bill
there are Beau Hickmans Away
ready to dine. Free lunches! Blu
the tax payer steps up and pays til,
fiddler.
We mean just what We say. w
!. charge that the County Commission
crs are giving $500 . year 70 keep
Z few political fossils from sinking
$500 spent for perfumery and flmi
l cation. Their noses n,ay BE- Il
more sensitive than their estimation
Of square manhood. II NOT, Go
forgive the Islander they pcrpetrat
on that useful organ.
Please come forward, honest =
payer, and hand ii your stase /
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