Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-02-13

to pay taxes and costs. Does not JUS
tice of Moscow know of some delin-
quent taxpayer in his neighborhood
who would he left almost penniless If
sued for taxes2 or are the people in
and about Moscow so very well OFT that
such a thing as q delinquent is un-
known The district attorney is press
ing delinquents now to come forward,
pay up and save costs. He has shown
the delinqucnts the greatest leniency
heretofore, and is disposed to give
them fair opportunity to settle up be
fore suit will be commenced against
them
In another article l vii. speak of
tn Sc falsehoods limited at in the coin
mencement of this paper. hope
Justice will be satisfied with the above
explanation of county affairs.
Respectfully, WIN. EWING.
ED. TELLER:-I regret, deeply, the
necessity which compels me, in justice
to myself as an officer of the county,
to reply to a malignant attack appear
ing in your paper of the 30th of JAN,
over the signature of Justice. If the
writer of that article had been manly
enough to have signed his real name,
instead of using nom de plume, /
would not have been compelled to ex-
ercise the imagination to any great ex
tent in determining his position or
profession. Judging from the very
ungentlemanly language used in the
latter part of the communication re-
ferred to, and a long and close obser-
walton Of human nature, / am i'm
pressed with the belief land very
natural one, too, in my mind) that
Justice IA misnomer) is enc of that
class of leeches referred to in my let
ter to the TELLER of the 9th of Jan.
Taking it for granted that my con-
clusion is correct, l will proceed to re-
flute the slanderous falsehoods charged
upon the county officials and others by
this would be Justice.
1t seems that he is very indignant,
and boils over with holy horror at the
expression used by me in my letter Of
the 9th Jan. to the effect that had
seen these leeches under the guise OF
, religion, dining with an air Of grace
at the tables of poor people who could
i'll afford to spare even that much from
their meagcr stores. This Justice
: seems to take a little to heart, and his
letter of the 30th uses language unDe
coming a gentleman, and that coult
+. only emanate from perverted mind.
Now, Mr.. Editor, does not every
, body know that it is the habit of these
| itinerant gospel vendors to live off TIT
, people of the countryl Justice is Ger
tainly not so innocently ignorant o
that fact. l simply stated that they
the leeches live at the expense of th'
country, not county, as the printer
, made me say. 1t is an absolute fac
which none but Justice and those o.
his ilk would deny. That this partie
; ular set of religious teachers feast a
the tables of some of the tax payer
r who say they are too poor to pay thei
, taxes, is fact, of which the people o
tht country at large are cognizant, an.
l am at a loss to account for the .lar
ing ignorance of Justice, lin this on
t particularly who hos exhibited consid
> cradle intelligence on matters general
{ ly, as well as "billingsgate.' "Whel
ignorance is bliss" --you know tn,
rest, poor Justice. Wonder tbs tina
4 some half-starved COW did not fin,
D that very green spot in so grand al
a intellect Why, boy ten years OLE
8 would be sent to bed without his sup
, per who exhibited such sublime igno
rance in this particular The yer,
s thing has occurred in my immediate
y neighborhood where the taxpayer ha
s not paid his taxes for several years
, This is fact that can be substantiate'
beyond the cavil Of doubt.
And now we will deal with tina
e other contemplate falsehood, conceiv
;, ed of one Of those leeches and born O
a follower of the lamb, of which Jus
! tice, no doubt, was the accoucheur an
is now acting in the capacity of we
nurse. Great pains is evidently take
r with this foul offspring of perverte
/ imaginations to raise it to goodly pre-
a portions and make it power in tn
land for dastardly and mean purpose.
. After getting full head Of wind OF
J. Justice belches forth his venom at Nj
e X. and Mrs. L. He says: evil h
n Mr.. E. kindly inform the taxpayer
S of the county how much of the no.
II pital fund is used to support a mistres
for one Of our Hon. ~ members {