The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-02

a resident of this town under the sigma
ture of "Brothersvalley'' furnished com
munication for the Meyersdale Com
meyciai of last week protesting to give the
receipts and expenditures of the
Internal Revenue office. and then adds,
These figures are OF course not fficial and
will be glad il Mr.. Scull will correct them. !"
If Mr.. Scull took the time to hurl stone at
every NANCY cur that yelped upon his
track he would have but few moments for
his official duties. And if every fool or
knave who pleases to invent and publish a
! false statement had TO be answered. life
would be too short for the task.
! As in this instance, however the allega-
ton that more money is expended in official
salaries in this county than there is revenue
collected, is direct charge against the pur-
ity and honesty of the National Admins
.ration, it shall have brief answer, plain
and unmistakable. The whole statement is
one monstrous lie, and the writer Of it,
knew il to be so when he put it forth. He
lies in detail and he lies in concrete. He
lies wilfnlly, maliciously and knowingly.
He lies out of the pure cussedncss of his
nature and because the truth is not in him.
He lies as to the salaries paid out and as to
the amoupts collected. In short, he clothes
himself in lies as with a garment, and if his
malice had not outran his cunning he would
have seen that his lies were so utterly i'm
probable that no one short of an idiot would
credit them, and that the yeriest fool
couldn't be made believe that the govern
ment would keep in employment set of
officials whose salaries more than eat up the
revenue they collected. He knew, also, that
the district was composed of nine counties,
while he estimated the collections from this
one alone, and those from only one source
of revenue lie knew that the Office force
here kept all the accounts, records, etc, ETC.,
for the entire district, there being but three
deputies to the other seven counties, and he
knew nothing of the salaries paid excep.,
perhaps, TO one clerk and the per diem Of
Storekeepcrs and Gaugers, and he deliberate
ly manufactured the table of salaries he
appended knowing that he was making and
uttering lie.
We are not at liberty TO lay the govern
ment accounts before the public at the call
of every knave who pleases to lie about
them, but we will explode this tissue of
lies with a single item. He places the an
nual receipts in this county, at sl3,567.52,
when in fact, the receipts in this office
alone, for a single month of the present
year were over $4,000, from the entire dis
trict for the same month were $29, 900. and
for the year will largely exceed $4,000.
Now, the efiigy of man who published
this false statement, knows that annually
the Secretary of the Treasury makes de-
tailed report of the entire receipts and ex-
penditures of the government, as docs the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. These
reports are distributed broadcast over the
land, and any citizen desirous of knowledge
can by reference to them ascertain to the
last penny the salary of any official in its
employ, and every farthing collected and
the source from which it comes. In the
face of these facts, and when the truth can
so easily be arrived at, the man who would
deliberately and maliciously attempt to
bring odium upon the government and
falsify the record for the purpose of petty
personal revenge, is sufficiently characterless
to play the midnight spy on his neigh
Dor, or besmirch a woman's fair fame with
his vile tongue.