The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-05-06

THOSE COUNTY, BOOAS-CON A1N oEA
The Journal is worried because til
zADNANeEr criticizess the: sIoosep-W il
which our County business has bee'
transacted. Were it not for the AID
VANCE, the people would know little o
nothing us to how county affairs "er
being conducted,a aud such county Off
GERS as Dan Rohrer, Peter Thompson
and JimmyeAyalker would lie heralde'
AS paragons of:of1icial efficiency andin
tegrity. Their official careers are ope'
to grave criticism and the ADVANCE
will not shrink from the duty OF critl
cising them. Let us look further a
this charge Of ''looseness:'
The fact that it took three weeks tt
make up accounts after the official tern
of Thompson and Walker had expired
goes very far toward establishing on
charge 1t shows clearly that the bust
ness had been neglected. Had the bust
ness been properly kept up, settlements
could have been n ade on the last day o
February, and public funds could have
been paid over on the first day Of Marcel
us the law requires.
1t is no doubt quite an object for :
Banker. Treasurer to hold ST., 200 on de
post for 10 days, while the circulation
Of that much money among the peopl'
in a county like this in payment Of dis
trict town and county orders. dom
make much difference. Time is no Oh
ject to the people, Of course It. Schoo
teachers and country rustics, district
and town officials, can afford to wait
They are in fact obliged to do it. Thai
much money will buy up a great many
little district, town and county orders
while payments are deferred. It is :
paying business to parties holding posi-
tions to turn every one of them in a!
cash on the day of settlement.
It is currently reported that orders
marked ''canceled on the 2sth day OF
February" several hundred Of whicl
were issued on that day, were bought
up at a later date, all Of which Were
TUNED in as cash on final settlement
some 8 or i weeks after the legal time
for making it. School district and tow.
orders were SO paid III and in many in
stances for larger amounts than had
been paid in taxes on the same fund
since they were issued.
The result Of this is that parties hold
ing orders Of a prior date, which are le
gally entitled to preference. are obliged
to wait, or if they must have money
the orders can be sold at the bank at
from 10 to IS per cent off. And the
Journal is delighted with this method
Of doing business.
In our researches we find the follow.
ing in the Revised Statutes Of MINES.
ota, page us:
No county treasurer shall either di-
rectly or indirectly contract for or pur.
chase any orders or warrants issued
10y the county of which he is treasurer
or Of any town or body polite for which
he is collector of taxes, at any discount
whatever, upon the sum for which they
are issued. And if any treasurer direct.
ly Q: Indirectly so purchases 0rprocures
such orders or warrants he shall not be
allowed on settlement the amount nor
any part thereof on such orders or war
rants, and shall also forfeit the whole
amount due on such orders or warrants.
and shall also forfeit the sum- of 500
for each and every breach of the provis-
of this section.
The county would have more money
and certain eX-county officials less if
THU; law had been strictly adhered to.
Our bonded Indebtedness could he paid
off and we would have money to spare.
IMPRO1'IS.i TION.
The n. Y. correspondent Of the Pho.
neer-Press recently devoted several col
umns to an account of the wonderful
trance appropriations, under spirit con,
troll, Of Mrs. Nettie Brigham, who is
the regular speaker Of one Of the Spirit
uallst Societies of the city. lie writes
about this as though lie had discovered
something new and sensational. Thest
improvisations and wonderful trance
addresses are as familiar to Spiritual
lists as the platitudinous sermons of the
clergy are to their sleepy listeners. On.
ly the trance addresses are infinitely
beyond any sermons we have ever heard
in range Of thought and in spiritual
pabulum.
n few years ago we spent al evening
at the residence OF Mrs. Richmond
CORA 1Iatch) then the speaker for the
First Society Of Spiritualists of Chica
go, and one Of the most eminent trance
speakers in the country. We gave hel
as a subject for an improvisation THE
Kingdom of Heaven Found" In mo
ment she passed into the trance state
and improvised beautiful poem on thu
subject, almost perfect in diction ani
rhyme, and most beautifully elaborat
ing Gin lists saying that the ''Kingdon
of Heaven is within you"
The Pioneer-Press correspondent
gives an account Of the interview be
tween the egotistical and pompous DR.
Beard and Mrs. Brigham. He is gath
ering material to sustain his mater ial
istic theory of trance: spirit manifesto
tons, etc., and will tell us all about it
What blessing it is to have such Tex
parts" as Beard to tell us deluded com
mon people how all these miracles
prophecies, angel visits, etc., are pro
duced by the unconscious cerebratio 10,
of the psyclo-spinal state of expectan
cy of the psychic, or somehow that way
And yet there are plenty OF wise fool
who will accept his theories just be
cause they sound scientific and becaus,
they can't understand them. Like TIN
country schoolmaster who quieted tin
alarmed villagers by telling them ii