The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1883-11-01
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lie lSONri Oi SUlrrSlSols, III Ihlilli
to dcsigiate alDlnt whcrcat to locate
the county scat "f government, were
r,crennt to the trust reios,l la then
Ivy the people, who elected them.
a majority at the people desired them
to select II site for The purpose. That
Was the will of four iiitlls of the voters
of Lake County: that will Was over
ridden ny the mincr one. fifth or LEGS,
No one will do,i.t for u moment btl
that the l,n,ple of t'hase and lu'lcr
and tie ~tniiy tributary To Those
paints constitute four fifil,s ar more al
the population of the county--l"y
nine-tvniis of the taxes of the couiiiy.
The people Of tl,o>e paints sai,i plainly
| that they wanted the designation inadc
and their representatives so said. Ten,
O COR Chase nnd far Luther, said that
point should be- designated. But the
other three said. in the expressive Ian
gungc of King Vanderbilt: "rnc l'eo-
pie be d-d!" We will make no desig-
nation. And by the same token they
didn't. And the will ofthe people was
set ut defiance.
But these men to the contrary not
withstanding, the people will yet have
Il voice in the matter; this board, and
other boards tn come, may refuse to give
the voters voice in the matter but
they will get 1t sooner or later and will
settle 1t i'm their own way.
The fight over the county seat IL not
ended; it Is just begun. And before the
end is reached there will he music all
along the line for some Of the present
board Ofsupervisors.
OF all the articles put forth so far on
the question of county scat removal,
we think the above the greatest curl
osity. To say that We are astOnished
ut Bro. Lusk, is q very mild way of
stating the matter. How man who
has u reputation MS ajournalist to make
or maintain can publish such state
nlcnts, is one of the mysteries of this
strange world.
Now rs you are very free in your
ntteranccs in the above, you certainly
cannot complain If we discuss the log
ic Of your reasoning. You say that
"four-fiftls" of the people wished the
the county sea t removed and make it
MS an unqualified statement. Now,
when we or amy one else, ask you
where your "four-iifths" desire the
county seat located you can not name
tl,e point. Why? because there Is no
point in Lake c,u,ty vt which that
number of the people desire to see the
county seat.
AS to the statement that the
country contiguous to Chase and Lu-
thcr "puy nine-tenths of the taxes"
let us see how much truth there is in
that. Let our readers turn t. tho tax
rolls aggregates published in this issue
of the STAR and see how utterly wide
of the mark the Chase newspaper
man Is. II you figure the matter out
you will readily see that that part of
Lake county tributary to Baldwin pays
about ohe-half the taxes That support
Lake county government. Next comes
Luther; while the country contiguous
to Chase pays about one fourth of the
tax. Figure ii for yourself, dear reader,
aud dO not take our say so.
In regard to the "ten Supervisors"
ftvOring removal, We fail to see what
Bro. l.,lsk means. The recorded vote
of the Supervisors show that only one
member voted aye OH every proposition
To- remove. The others were divided.
A certain portion favored Chase, AN
other, Luther, not bare major
ity--let alone u two-thirds vOte-in fu-
v0r of removal to any point. 1t is un-
just to ccilsure the champions of any
point.
In conclusion, we can sec 10 reason
for prolonging the cry that the Eight
is not ended" unless it is In All endea-
vor to create feeling in the minds of
the people against erecting suitable
county buildings. When such men ms
Bro. Lusk champion u continuance of
the eight" we advise them to pay the
expenses Of their war, and not leave
the bills for taxpayers of Lake county
To foot, as shown 10y the proceeding, of
the Supervisors, elsewhere in this issue;
they p,id over 500 to the com
mittce aplH,intc'l to appeasc the ci;''il"r
0f county seat rcmOvalists. We can
see no result of this agitation, except
Iletrimcit to the general welfare. The
rounty seat question can never bc ad-
j,is.cd amy better than it is now.