The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-05-18
BRADLEY FLAT BUDGET.

10 lHE starr
AS the summer winds come soughing
round my cabin, and the fitful clouds
give evidence of April showers, let us
reason oft together and while away the
tedious hours; let us sum this business
up till the weather relaxes, and see how
much money we'll have left this fall
when we come to pay our taxes. Let
us ask some stunning questions of the
officials of our county: How much
money will they want from the farm
er's bounty? How much money will
they need to make their hearts grow
glad? How much money must they
have to keep from getting mad? When
upstarts like this Acorn asks them
questions they cant explain, and wont
be put off by ridicule, that surely very
plain: in fact, how much will it take to
keep up their high stations? How
much will support them, likewise their
relations? How much will they need
to keep their friends from want, and
how much must they have to keep
from looking ga,1nt? They must not
let their modesty retard them in this
measure, for the farmers all have plenty
and give away with pleasure.
am not unmindful of the fact that
the crop of aspirants for official honors
in this county this fall will be luxuri-
ant and in view of that fact l shall en-
deavor to keep posted in regard to their
eternal fitness for the Office to which
they aspire. shall also give them all
the consolation / can consistently and
will do my level best to have them all
elected. Three or four prosecuting
attorneys at twelve hundred dollars
per year are none too many for the
people of this county and we actually
need half dozen county clerks. with
at least one gross Of county commission
ers. Experts and chaplains we cant
have too many of and that too at high
salaries. Sheriffs and deputies with
out stint will make our county organ
ization almost complete. Trespassers
against the law, however, should be
warned against coming to this county
to commit their crimes as we haye no
time nor talent to waste in prosecuting
and convicting them'and,dont think it is
right in them to work tEe free lunch
racket on too connding county that
needs all its wealth to crafty the ex-
travagence Of it's official profoges. 1t
looks husiness-l like, too, for the char
man of our board of county commits
sioners to put his signature to all the
blank orders in the order book so that
people who want money will not have
to wait but can make out their ORDER.
destroy the stub, get the order cashed
and spend the money expediously.
There is still another thing that / like
to see which shows that we are pro-
gressing toa higher plane OF civiliz-
alton and enlightenment than counties
have heretofore SHOWN toward one
another. Custer county may or may
not be grateful to us but it makes no
difference. We are perfectly willing
to furnish legal talent (such as 1T isl
to prosecute or defend her citizens and
pay for it out of our own county funds.
We wish to show our magnanimity IL
not to Custer county at least to our
prosecuting attorney.
The county clerk also has the right
at any time or at any place, provided
an expert or someone else puts him upon
the racket, to change or interline the
books and no one has any right to kick
or find fault with his acts. As all our
present county officials wish to succeed
themselves in Office it becomes not only
the pleasure but the bounden duty of
every voter to vote for, them Is often as
he can on the next. election day. Life
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