The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19

the interests of the people he shows
most clearly, and rightly too, how the
people acted fairly and candidly, but the
directors after accepting the trust and
confidence of the stockholders and peo-
pie, willfully and treacherously abused
and betrayed that trust and sold them
cut for personal gain. He thus closes
the article, "This is the peoples cause
of conn laint-it is the betrayal of trust they
condemn"
Let the reader take this editorial and
in the place of railway, supply court
house, and in the place ofdirectors write
county commissioners, and see if it
would not make an admirable editorial
on the court house question. But in
stead of this kind of defense of his farm
er friends, read what he has to say on
another page about those who dared to
raise their voice against the betrayal of
their trust by the county commission
ers. 1t is Mr.. Wise's OK that is gored
this time. Does it sound like the words
Vi ificHu! LII uis iiiSt sehtciiCC HC say o
the people of Pleasant Mound, Garden
City, Shelby, Vernon, LeRay, Mapleton
and Butternut VALLEY have lied. LeRay
has psi registered liars.
In his second sentence he attempts to
make bubble by saying the people vo-
ted on bonds, not court house. He
learned this kind of reasoning during the
war when he and the other rebels held
that the South was just as loyal as the
North because they too were fighting to
put down the war. He sort of begs the
question by saying that the majority that
defeated the bonds was only about 200
Is not majority of 200 enough for this
new reformer? Suppose the case now
reversed and the measure had been car.
ried by 200 majority, and the county
commissioners because they represented
people who voted against the measure,
refused to issue bonds and proceed with
the building, would not this righteous
gentleman have risen up in holy horror
at the thought that the commissioners
| would think of refusing to do what the
majority Of the people had directed them
to do2 imagine every writ known to
the law would have been served upon
them, besides the maledictions of this
great reformer.
Further on he thus states The com
mlssioners have authority under the
statutes to provide suitable Offices fol
county officers, etc, ETC., but this pro-
vision of law is for new counties thai
have no buildings, or to provide in cast
of emergency where buildings, by some
extraordinary circumstance as by fire Of
storm, have been destroyed. The PEG
pie are not aware that anything extra
ordinary has happened the present
buildings, and when it is shown to the
courts that these buildings have served
the needs of the county for years anG
are still in use with no extraordinary
evidence of decay, it is believed that tn,
commissioners will find that they hav,
misunderstood the law, and that the re
concentrations of two grand juries on
matter in which their opinion has NJ
legal significance, will be entirely to-
thin screen for the commissioners to b,
safe behind. To assume such power j
one thing, but to esca pc the decree of ;
court is quite another thing. The virtu
Gus editor of the RerieaD is not NOR,
anxious for the safe preservation of tn,
county's records than every farmer in it
But "This is the peoples cause of com
plaintiff is the betrayal of trust tina
they condemn" JUSTICE.