The St. Johns herald., 1886-08-05


 perities of journalism. Accept thanks, and try again.
 
 THE most important question in- volved in the case of the Holbrook and Woodruff road is the appro- priation of over $3,000 of the pub lie money for right of way across the dam, and thus making the coun- ty subsidize the "Irrigating Canal, Dam and Bridge Company" We trust our friend, F. NJ. Buck, will devote his next epistle to a discus sion of this matter. He may at tempt to ridicule the appointment of viewers generally, and the three gentlemen particularly, who com posed them in the matter he at tempts to discuss, but such remarks indicate personal feelings rather than serve as an answer to existing facts. We regret he has profted so little by his experience as leg islator, as to suggest that the Board of Supervisors could adopt any other method of dedicating a pub lie road than the mode of proce- dure laid down ill the statutes.
 Mir. Buck discusses the residence, citizenship and property of the signers upon the opposing petitions and very discreetly disposes of that one in which he is interested with a flourish of trumpets, "a sound ing brass and tinkling cymbal." Will he now be kind enough to take that petition asking for a road via the dam, apply the same tests, and also inform the public how many of the petitioners are stockholders in the dam, and how many are di- rectly and personally proftably in- terested in its construction as la- borers, contractors, builders or oth- erwise. We know it was decided long ago to use that road money in furtherance of the private enter prise embodied in the "Irrigating Canal and Dam Company. You have done sO-spent about $500 of the taxpayers money in build ing a dam for private, incorpor- ated concern, and now that the people are demanding their own, it is natural that you should try to hold up the Supervisors that you may hide behind them and screen the wrong you have done. You have incorporated your company, which has no assets save its dam and still more worthless stock, which the county would not accept as a gift. The people have lost $3,500 of their money which has been taken almost forcibly, and now you stand laughing at them behind the bulwark of a rotten, irrespon- sible corporation, telling them to make the most of the situation and to whistle for their money. Sup pose the Supervisors had fostered this monstrous scheme, why the virtuous censorship which you maintain over their every act, would have aroused such a storm of hon est indignation that but one cry would have been heard, "crucify them, cruelty them !"
 Don't you think it would prove a profitable investment to drop the Supervisors for a season, and devote your talents to an explanation of that $3, 300 for the dam, and $4,70O for bridge and dam. It might prove instructive in political wire-work- ing, if you would publish the cor respondence, and detail all the crooks and turns. of diplomacy by which you acquired possession ot that $4,700, and besides Governor Zulick would relish the informa- ton. Is your Advertisement" of these facts part of the assets of the "Irrigating Canal and Dam pany?"
 AUSTIN, Texas, July 31.-Gover- nor Ireland hayinO been advised of