The Worthington advance., 1881-09-01
WILLEERECoYBR?

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER l, 1881.
VIII EE RECoTER?
The ADVANCE, with characteristic
stubborn persistence, foolish persist
epce it is called by those foolish people
Who are always wise in their own con
oeit.) has maintained from the very fisst
that Garfield would live. In our first
issue after lie was shot, we said, Gar
field will Eve.'' This was not ''opti.
mism" rs. the correspondents errone'
ously call the hopefulness of those a.
round the President, for optimism
means that 'everything is for the best. "
The optimist would say that whether
he lives or dies it is best. TO persist
in the O., inion that he will live is not
therefore optimism. We believed from
the first that lie would live for the fol-
lowing reasons as heretofore stated:
(l) His vigorous constitution and pure
sntecedents; (2) the wound was not
necessarily fatal; (3) scores OF soldiers
received worse wounds during the war
and recovered with thousand per cent
less attention than the President has
received.
Friday and Saturday last when the
doctors and Tie newspapers had given
him up, we insisted III that the wound
is healthy and is healing; ~ that the
stomach is not rebelIous and is able to
receive some food; i3) that tie signs Of
blood poisoning are not sufficient to
warrant the assertion that lie VIII die
from that cause.
II the President should die from the
effects Of the wound, we must ofcourse
own up like a RAN that we have been
mistaken. i;s'! we insist tina: the solid
facts, e. "a III; >cti :iol, the mass of stuff
which has 'it: 5 come from Washing
ton, have Justified our position that
Garfield would recover.
WHY THE CONTRACTS ARE TO BIZ
CANCEILED.
In last week 5 .a:!TASi:E we annOu-
need that tie .ln;l: DAD Land Company
had decided 20 c@ucei contracts where
parties were delinquent upon taxes.
The M:..,kalc 'iuyic7; having criticized
this determination OF the Company,
Land COMMISSIONS: Drake wrote the
following letter TO ::le Review giving
their reasons fOy So joing:
Had yO,; taken t:.o trouble 10 inquire,
I an confident .:';u "cuid lave been
told OF L;,e e>t:ene ,eniency "i.il which
this coinHaii7 has treated ieliuquents
for years past, and tins recent action
was 3iiDp;r @ choice Oh our part OF tho
settle: and the railroad company losing
the lands OF Of on. cOnceding to the
reQuirments OF the ia". 1t IS true we are
cancelling all contracts where the par
ties arc tleiiaqneNt upon taxes. and II
we should not do SO the lands would be
lost bota to IL :!n& 10 Tie settler in the
September sale, by operation OF the law.
AS we are acting j.. good faltl, with
the State authorities, any delinquent
whose contract i.;is been cancelled, who
will bring receipt from the county
treasure: chewing tl'at al: such delin-
gue::t taxes and penal los and costs
have bee. paid tJ any time during the
year 1881, il VII, TO ho:i, our duty and
pleasure to reiEsJato the party to 4
possession as full ant; complete as
though we never c;;nG'.lied the contract.
;Tei> truly yours,
J. II. DRAKE, Land Commissioner.
To this, TIE editor, of The Review
replies; rs follows through the Pioneer
Press:
MASKAvo, Aus. o6.-Refcrs:ng to the
letter from Mr. ). Il. Drake, land ccm-
missioner OF the st. Paul s Sioux City
road, as published in Fridays issue, I
will say t.iat made the necessary m
Quiry 1T the auditors office i'll this city,
before publishing My criticism of 'i;;
action III cancell!nE the land contracts
of settles, a;,' found The facts to
sustain ny position The number can
celied in a.; was eighty. OF this number
thirty.six have paid all the taxes levied
against Their lands, excepting fo1 the
year 1880, and most # rot all these
would have pad before the safe. am
justified IN this Statement by the fact
they have paid the taxes Of the previous
years. Some had notified the auditor
that they would. pay before sale, and
others have since the contracts were
cancelled and taxes abated, applied at
the treasurer's to pay, but did not do so
because Of Mr.. Drake's hasty a0d
unjust action. -Four others have paid
all taxes D:';oG to and since 1879, and
seventeen more owe only for 1879 and
1880. iie;e are thirty-seven Of the
eighty contracts; caceiled that could
not possibly be lost to the company or
the settlers, g M. Drake claims, and
I have the authority Of the auditor for
saying tllat YER: few. il any, of the re-
naming twenty-five cases would DC
placed ba.-nnd redemption by the com-
ing tax <a'c.
MIR. brakes promise to reiustate
settlers who pay their taxes during 1881
is il delHsiOn and Il snare, for he has
already ap, ieil to aud secured the abat-
emen: Of tile taxes through the State
and'sor. and the county treasurer has no
authority to receive money from the
settlers.
have referred TO this matter i'll the
hope that 5Isc railroad company may
yet be !:itl'cea tn dc Justice to the hard
working but unfortunate c'ass who are
struggling 10 provide homes for them
selves and families.
JOHN G.. WISE.
4 iaEM4 i.i,-.4RIE EEVOLUTION
Tie s;;tte>:, q" t..e Literary nevolu-
tiun IL: !Hc,:uL::.g % Cyciop:M!!a, the
largest eye' ?:i!.iS..Ht III th.: cuuntyv