The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-06-28
HOT SPRINGS STAR.
The County Indebtedness.

lerms lpVetlebIy In NlvnncH.
The County Indebtedness.
The people Of Fall River County arc
in favor Of bonding the county indebt.
edness. Upon what do we base such an
assertion? First upon personal con.
versation with representative men from
various portions Of the county and sec.
ond. knowing we'll that q move that is
so eminently wise, will meet the ap.
proval of the intelligent people that
make up our population. Funding
the present Indebtedness means a saw
ing of from 5000 to $4,000 annual.
ly. The people Of this county are not
willing that this great sum should lie
lost each twelve months. The Adrocate
OF Oelrichs has seen fit to fight the pro.
position, for what reason the STAR
knows not unless it is carrying into ex-
ecution threat that was made by Jones
of that paper, which threat was-"that
from now on it is Oelrichs against the
balance of the county," or words to
to that effect, made in Hot Springs less
than three months ago The Advocate
is carrying into effect this threat by
pitting itself against the wishes of the
balance of the county. However the
vacillatiEg course of the Advocate has
not served to inspire any confidence in
that sheet, and perfect understand
ing ON the part of the people of the
motive that prompts the attack will
neutralize all bad effects that might
otherwise be noticed. The outstanding
Indebtedness of Fall River county as
represented by outstanding warrants
is $4,000; of this less than 81 500
is road warrants issued before the coun-
ty was divided into road districts, and
upon the county road t,tnd. At the
the time this Indebtedness was incurred
Hot Springs was the only settled por-
tion OF the county and the only place
where roads were needed and the in
debtedness was made for building roads
leading into Hot Springs. This is suf-
ficient for explanation. Now this in
debtedness is represented by county
road warrants, which must sooner or
later be paid and the STAR propounds
this interrogatory! Which is the easi-
er topay-$l 500 represented bv war
rants drawing7 per cent interest, or
paying $l,50O represented by bonds
drawing 5 or 6 per cssf? Tho Advo.
cate is invited to answer this interrog-
atory, which it will not do. The ac-
tion of the county board does not con-
template the payment of Hot Springs
road district Indebtedness, as this can
not be done under the law. Monied
men would not he such fools as to buy
bonds illegally issued, and the people
of Fall River county are not so simple
minded as to be in any way alarmed.
The law is plain and only permits the
funding of exclusive county indebted
ness and nothing more. Jones knows
this as well as any one but he attempts
to excite the people by telling them a
great wrong isabout to he perpetrated,
which he knows is not the truth. 1t is
all done for the purpose Of engender-
ing opposition to Hot Springs. If the
county seat had been taken to Oelrichs
Jones would be tearing his garments
in his zeal to have the county indebted
ness funded. but now it is different, and
be holds upthe great buggaboo of "you
are about to be robbed before the peo-
pie, but the people unfortunately for
Jones, see through the thin disguise,
and are all supporting move that is
warranted by sound financial wisdom.
1t is unnecessary to make any fur
ther figures to show the wisdom Of
funding.
4 practical demonstration Of the
beneficent effects Of funding is, that
since the action of the county board
upon this matter, county warrants
have advanced to 95 cents, a value that
Fall River county warrants never be-
fore represented. As soon as it is an
established fact that the county in
debtedness will be funded warrants
will be worth par. oh, no, let Jones
have his way and keep warrants down
to 80 and IS. Away with such finan.
ceering. Nor is it "Hot Springs ring"
that is doing this business, buta body
of three men, county commissioners, q
majority Of whom live many miles
from Hot Springs. All the rant and
howl is not that justice or wisdom shall
prevail but that if possible feeling
antagonistic to Hot Springs may be