Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-25
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:: United States OF America. I Got
W Dist. of Missouri, Eastern Div.
1, Henry c. Geisberg, clerk Of the circuit court
of the United States. in and for said district.' do
hereby certify. that the foregoing writing ~
true copy of the return of respondents 1lsd No.
said date In case 7ss OF Cochran Fleming against
the lafayette county court, ct al. as fully ~ the
same remain On file and OF record In my ONCE.
In testimony whereof. 1 hereunto subscribe
name and anix the seal Of said court. At
Office in the City of jefferson, In said district.
this 22d day of November, A. D.. 1882. q
H. z. GEtsBERG. Clerk.
1t will be seen. a. the Intelligencer
has several times pointed out Of late.
that these bond cases have about come
to a focus. The subtleties OF the law
have been invoked and re.invoked until
the bond lawyers have learned all the
turns and twists that the peoples attor-
neys a resort to in their defense. and
legal fencing seems to be about at an
end. Judge Krekel is uursservedly the
friend of Lafayette county. aud Of every
other county that has offered to make .
tsir compromise of the fraudulent and
unjust bonds which were piled upon
them IN the crazy period that followed
the war; but Judge Krekel is q Judge.
and he can only carry his sympathy tor
harassed and annoyed communities 90
tar and nc farther. Lafayette county
was the pioneer In this business of set
thing county bonds BY the most liberal
of compromises. Her action brought
hundreds of thousands of dollars into
the pockets Of holders OF county securi-
ties everywhere. She has lived faith
fully up to all the. terms she has offered
to her creditors, aud her compromise
bonds are to-day worth - per cent.
premium in the market. and are 90 de-
sirable a security that they are very
hard to buy. She cannot see, however,
why she should pay to. those who, like
the Venetian Jew, ask for the whole
pound of flesh. more than she has paid
to the generous creditor Who has met
her half way in her effort to extricate
herself from such a labyrinth Of debt Is
no other county in Missouri was ever
entangled in. She has declared re-
peatedly in emphatic language that she
will not do that thing-ln her conven-
tons of taxpayers and At the polls
and she means 1t. Let it be understood
now, first a. we'll as last, that the un.
compromised county bonds must be
placed on the same basis a. those that
have been compromised before them.
And after January l. 1883, if the credit
ors continue their annoyances let the
county judges show the determination
of the people by suffering themselves to
be placed IN jail rather than make any
more levies to worry the people, as un-
der recent orders these levies must be
entered on the general tax-books, and
the people will no longer be able II
they are made to evade them without
obst.uctiug and impeding all their other
business. Tho judges of the Lafayette
county court are all handsome men, but
We are at some loss to know what good
the possession OF their bodies will do to
the bondholders, and the people will be
very sure not to elect any other gentle.
men while the three that they now have
hold out. As they are are as tough 40
they are good. looking. We are inclined
to think that this will be a long time, es-
peclsllY If they are ~Incarcerated among
the vine clad hills of Cole county, and
IN the valley of the Missouri, . region
flowing with milk and honey.