Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
4 SLANDERER REHUKED,
The Citizens of BroiHer6 and -C0uiatY
Officers vigorously DeJestded.
Brainerd Journal
AN UNMITIGATED FALsIFIER.


1t is seldom that a newspaper sends GU
a correspondent with instructions to make
his reports the very embodiment of mali
cious falsehood, without the first ele
ment of truth in them. but such wa.
evidently the order received by the
brainless parasite which was sneaking
about the back alleys of this city the
fore part of this week as the representa-.
tive Of the Minneapolis Tribune. His
utterly false representation of the political
situation here is too absurd to deserve a
passing notice, and we would not deign to
refer to his contemplate attack upon the
officers of this county were it not that his
miserable mouthlngs were published in a
sheet which during its former more pros
porous days made at least some slight pre-
tensions to responsibility. He pretends to
have been informed that ''there isn't one OF
the county officials but draws ten times
more salary than he earns'' Now. it is a
fact, susceptible of proof, that there is not
another county in this state where the Off
Gals are as poorly paid in proportion to
the work done as in Crow Wing county
For instance, the treasurer is paid d per
cent of all taxes collected. Cass and
Ttasca counties are attached to Crow
Wing county, and the Grow Wing county
officials therefore have to keep three sets
of books. In Cass and Itasca counties
there is very large amount
Of land owned in small guam
titles and valued very low. the tax.
alton in many cases being only a few
cents. These lands require as much work
nv the auditor and froo IN
ceipts for taxes collected and posting
books as they would if valued as highly as
in the old and thickly settled counties. A
tract of land for the collection OF
taxes on which the treasurer may get only
three or four cents, would in any thickly
settled county give the treasurer, perhaps
twenty-five times as much.
The result is that the treas
urer is compelled to do large amount OF
work every year for the next thing to nc
remuneration at all. The auditor is in
about the same fix as the treasurer, and
comes in for large share of this unre-
Enumerated work. Of course. all theil
work is not of this character, but theil
pay, as whole, is doubtless smaller, in
proportion to the work, than in any Other
county in the state. The Other
county officials also do perfectly
square business, and were never before
charged with any crookedness. The
state public examiner finds everything
straight in this county, but the contempt
bic cross-eyed insect sent up here by the
Minneapolis Tribune finds everything
wrong because he knows that man work
ing on the Tribune would be immediatel,
kicked out of employment unless he
proved himself an internal liar. This il
plain, but true; and if the language is toe
plain we have only to say thai
in dealing with the Minneapoli:
Tribune it is necessary to surrender
ones dignity somewhat, the same as i
is when kicking dog. There is no dig
nified way of kicking such animals. The
auditor and the treasurer have their book.
open for inspection at all times, and are
willing to give all the time necessary te
showing the books and giving explana
tions to persons DESTROYS of positive proof
of the malicious falsehood of the article
published in the Tribune. A contest that
has to be propped up with such disgracefu
untruths and vituperation as appears in the
columns of the Tribune, which no man
could write without sacrificing both his
character and his reputation, is desper
ate one indeed.