The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-08-29
AUX CENTRE HERALD.
THURSDAY, AUGUST %, 1889.

The city council, at its meeting OF
Monday evening appointed committee
of three in connection with the city at.
torney to draw a contract with ]. A
Dubois & Co. for furnishing power for
$500 per year, and on Wednesday
evening the contract was submitted and
adopted. 1t provides that sufficient
power shall be furnished at all times
for domestic and fire purposes, and that
Dubois & Co. shall put in steam power
to be used in case of necessity. 1t is the
purpose of the firm to purchase an en-
CINE of 125 horse power at once and to
have il in running order at the very
earliest moment-within six weeks ii
possible, and when that is accomplished
the mill will be operated on full time, as
it cannot be with the low stage of wa
ter. The contract is practically the
same as his existed during the past FIVE
years, the price paid being exactly what
the council has been paying ever since
the water-works have existed, although
no written contract or exact provisions
have heretofore been made.
The controlling motive in making this
contract, and which prompted the petit
ton OF citizens to the council urging it,
was the encouragement of the firm to
th,,S ,,lo 1a
mill upon a basis where 1t could run
continuously, irrespective of the water
power, which is now and has been for
many months, wholly inadequate.
In the council there were two mega
tive votes, Alderman Moore who cast
one of them, explaining that he heartily
favored the plan of the contract and the
advantages which would accrwe, but
thought that a contract for three years
was all that the council ought to make,
rs many changes are liable to occur
within that length of time. Alderman
Beidleman opposed the long term, stat
ing that his objections " ere the same as
those OF Alderman Moore 1t cannot
be questioned that every member of the
board voted for what he considered the
best interests of the city, and their diff
tcrences were more apparent than real.
The action of the council gives general
satisfaction, and lift is not the wisest
possible, the members have the satisfac-
ton of knowing that a large proper
ton of their constituents are estopped
from any adverse criticism IN the future,
as they are on record as urgingit
The Sank Centre HERALD prides itself,
1t SAYS, on its fairness, honesty and Just
ness, and vet it says that Stearns county
does not need 4 new Jail. Was Editor
Hendrix ever i'll the Stearns county Jail;
does he know what he is talking about?
Did lie ever examine the death-trap in
which Stearns county has kept its prison.
CTS for years past; does he accuse Drs.
Gilmnn and Becbe and Ramsay and Post
and every other doctor who hes ever Wis
tied the jail of deliberate talsehood when
they say it is not fit place in which to
keep any human being; does he know
that there is no way of separating the
continuing them i'll little smothering cells:
does lie known that it has been con-
Gemncd by the State Board of Charities
las Editor Hendrix ever smelled the
Slculns county Jail? His little fling
about lis being used by St. Cloud as a
lookup simply shows his petty spite.
Mr.. Hendrix OH most subjects is tair is
very levci-heaIed and sensible, but on the
SucicctS OF county division and St.
Cloud lie is Il cr2nk of the first water
and has no Sct:Se of fairness, justice or
anything else except jealousy and spite
JOurnaLPrcSs.
No-brother Mitchell, Editor Hendryx
was never in the Stearns County jail
never even smelled it. The HERALD re
lied upon current reports, specific state
menrs and general principles. The edit
or Of the .JOurnaLPress manifestly has
the advantage of us in the matter of
actual knowledge of the condition of
the jail, but in his statements he is quite
apt to be pre- JUDGED. 1t is not many
years since the state board of charities
said it was very creditable structure,
and it is a great pity indeed if St. Clord
prisoners have so far corrupted it that it
has become 4 stencil in the nostrils of
the St. Cloud community. But why
dodge. Is it a little fing''-the state
1nent that it is largely used by st. Cloud
for its city prisoners? So far as county
divisions is concerned, the less certain
st. Cloud citizens, and among them the
editor of the ,JOurnaEPress has to say
about fairness or justice, the higher
they will stand in the esteem of Western
Stearns. Broken promises and, unful-
filled pledges are not evidences of fair
ness and justice. Has the HERALD and
its constituency whose sentiments it re-
fleets any such to their charge? If so
we don't know it.
The editor of the HERALD may be a
crank-whatever a crank may be-
and a crank of the first water-if there
be different crank-waters, numerically
speaking, but jealousy of and spite
toward st. Cloud are not, and from the
nature of things cannot be actuating
motives. The spite has been shown
upon every occasion toward Sank Cen
tire, her men and her interests when
ever St. Cloud has had opportunity to
show it. Shall we cite specific instances?
On the other hand St. Cloud citizens
have always received consideration at
the hands OF Sank Centre. Now bear in
mind that no reference to personal and
social relations is intended-far from
it, tor the most cordial good will pre-
walls as between the two cities. 1t is
in the aggregate and upon matters of
public welfare and interest that St.
Cloud has exercised her spirit of malev-
client selfshness, and so continues. No,
brother Mitchell, spite is not what turns
our crank, but the resentment which
spite has ngendered-and the HERALD
pledges you a lively recollection with
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