The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-17

If san ElectOr" and the two or tire,
other persons who are complaining 81
bitterly because of the onerous builder
of taxation laid upon them by reason
of the county being compelled to rent
a court room at an expense Of $3.50 q
month, will figure out their share o.
this tax and send the bill to the REG.
IsTER we will try and see that it is
paid. This paper hasn't money to
throw at the birds exactly, but it is
willing to stretch its resources to the
utmost limits in order to keep peace in
the family, and have every body salts.
fed.
| The REGISTER, according to its
usual custom, will send out with its
next issue handsome illustrated sup
plement of four pages. This will be in
many ways the most attractive holt
day edition we have yet issued, as 1t
will contain nothing but new and orig
inal matter. There will be d story by
Bob. Burdette, another by Prof. David
Swing and sketches by Rose Terry
Cooke, IN. Quad" Susan d. Nicker-
son, and many others, none of which
have previously appeared in print.
The illustrations also are designed es-
pecially for this edition, and taken all
together our readers may expect the
Holiday REGISTER to be most enter.
tanning paper.
Our distinguished friend IAN Elec-
tor" is keeping all the printing presses
of the county hot with his contribu-
Ptions on the county seat questions. The
latest that has come to our notice ap-
peared in last weeks Moran Herald
and is mainly devoted to the remarks
made at various times by the REGIS
TER. 1t would be rather tiresOme to
reply seridtina to all his sOphistries and
forbear calling attention to one or two
of them. He complains bitterly that
latter being taxed since the early days
of the rebellion for county buildings,
we are now taxed to rent court rooms
to transact the business Of the county,"
We do not see anything particularly
oppressive about that. Does he expect
county buildings to last forever? Be-
sides he should never forget that the
county buildings whose unsafe cOndi-
ton now causes the tax Of which he
complains, never cost the county q
cent. Again he says, "Only few
short years ago we were taxed several
thousand dollars to repair the old
building" Will he please be more
specific and give US the exact figures :?
"Several thousand" dollars for repairs
on building that could be built new
for three or four thousand dollars, does
seem rather steep. The facts are that
the sum spent by the county in repairs
on the old Court House, has been q
mere trif1e, not enough to raise any
mans taxes tenth of one per cent.
Our "Elector" SCOTS at the REGIS
TER's assertion that there is no ring in
lola, and says with fine irony, SIT
didn't try to humbug the people in to
vote for the sale of the poor farm, to
get a rap at what little money there
was in itw If he really wants to
know what lola thought Of the poor
farm proposition, we call his attention
to her vote on the question, 81 for and
397 ag ainst. Does that look like lola
had been lying awake nights to get to
sell the poor farm? AS matter of
fact it was J. w. Pine, of Salem, who
first suggested the sale of the farm, and
it was at his earnest solicitation that
the other Commissioners consented to
submit the matter to vote of the
people. We guess even Gan EIectOr"
will not accuse J. w. Pine of ever in
tentionally doing anything to help
lola. Neither was the summoning of
an architect from Kansas City to ex.
anime the Court House, an lola move.
This proposition also originated with
the Commissioners themselves, and the
fact that the building was condemned
by an expert, is sufficient vindication
of their action. We might continue
these remarks almost indefinitely, but
we have corrected some of the most
egregious blunders of this prolific cor
respondent and given enough to show
the extent of his nais-infOrmatiOn on
the matter he presumes to write about.
We don't blame him for arguing in
favor of his own town; but in doing so
he should confine himself little more
strictly to facts. In the words of some
wise man he "knows too many things
that are not 60"