The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-23
$265.16
roulI for INC yea. 1881

Each taxpayer may estimate easily
for himself the actual amount of money
he saves when the county advertising is
done for nothing.
Now in regard TO the final notice and
delinquent tax list: In the irst place if
every taxpayer did his duty by paying
his taxes there would be no final notice
and no delinquent tax list AS it is, the
person who fails to pay his taxes as The
law provides pays penalty IN paying
for the publication of the final notice
and delinquent tax list, just as a man
who breaks any law pays the penalties
which follow. The above notices cost
the average taxpayer nothing as
the average taxpayer pays
his taxrs as the law directs. In other
words, the printing Of the final notice
and the delinquent tax list for nothing
is a saving to an Individual just as it
would be a saving to the same individu-
al II the penalty for some lawless act he
had committed should be paid by some
body else or RENTED. The cost of the
final notice last year, and which was ad-
vanced by the county in July last, was
$13S.20, and the cost of the delinquent
tax list which was advanced in October
last. WAS $1S8.05. The doing of this
work lUr nothing encourages those who
are so disposed to let their taxes go. Do
the people of this county who pay their
taxes, which includes nearly everybody,
want 10 encourage nOn-residents not to
pay their taxes? That's the effect of
emitting the advertising penalty. This
is on the same principle of the cash
buyers of goods of all kinds
paying enough more for goods to cover
the bad debts of those who do not pay
for their goods, and this is the sort of
thing the Republican is encouraging by
publishing The tax list and final notice
for nothing. If the taxes are not paid
as fully hereafter as heretofore 1t can be
laid to the Republicans act. Do the
business men of Emporia and the
farmers of Lyon county want to encour-
age tax dOdging? Further comment
i upon these facts is unnecessary. The
NEWS was out of the race when the
county printing was to be done for moth,
ing. 1t is here to make an honorable
and fair living by honorable aud fair
competition, and honorable and fair
dealing with its patrons. 1t will not de
part from these methods to get a few
hundred dollars worth of public print
ing. In yielding any claim it nigh
have had by the order of the commits
sioners passed at their morning meeting
the proprictors only suggested tina
if they changed their order ant
gave their advertising to the
J Republican, that they should require thu
latter TO enter into contract and civ
bond that 1t would do the work on tn
terms it proposed, for at least one sedI
r We are glad to sec that the county at
/ torney aud commissioners have takol
: this precaution. This was necessary I
: protect the county, because one pape
: which had last year proposed to do Ia
t county advertising for next to nothing
t had died within three months after tn
contract was let, and another pape
!. which made a great fuss about th
! award of the contract to The News, an
i abused the commissioners withoU
: stint, for exercising ordinary bushes
e judgment, had died within the yea
, There is no telling what ma
become of the Republican witt
in year. It Is now ru
s at loss of $500 or 5000 a month, an
v the party or parties sustaining it wi
;. undoubtedly want to stake a rest" b
p fore the year is up. The officers d
q we'll in securing binding contract for
|; whole year
i There has been and is a wide-sprei
Ie belief among our citizens that the X
% publican was started and is sustained
% some sort of ''ring" or syndicate
y railroad or political, or both. The q
k OF agreeing to do the county advertiser
q for q year for nothing but confirms Ii
Is belief and proves that there is son
is hidden hand feeding the fiedgling.
he ia we'll known that the gentlem
g whose name adsrns the line next I
be heading of the paper, in large bla
IS display type, ia not the *
in of patriot who sinks
II money for mere glory, and all his che
be talk about the interests ofthe tax-pay'
in is understood and meets with q univ
nd sal and significant smile from those
IN Quainted with his record and his me
nd ods of doing business" So it v
x. nothing more than fair that our sugg
lot ton that he be "held and firmly boun
in, for a year, under his bid, should it
Ids adopted by the officers.
oh It is not belieYed In the commun
that this paper has any ''Ting" or IS