New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-03-20
Court House R,sstJes.

Next Tuesday the voters Of Brown
County will decide if they want to pay
for the new court house in small in
stallments in thirty years, or il. they want
to pay for it in five or six years. If the
bonds are voted, then every man pay
ing taxes on one hundred dollars worth
of property will be called upon to pay
not over fve cents annually on that sum.
If however the bonds will not be voted,
they will have to pay teOenty:toatr cents
annually on that sum.
It seems strange that any one. except
parties whose interests are in Sleepy
Eye, should oppose the issue of bonds.
The only reasonable explanation is that
they do not fully understand the ques-
ton at issue. The only question to be
voted upon is: Do the taxpayers Of
Broe0n County a0a'st to have those aOho
come after as help pay for a permanent
improvement or do they prefer to pay
tor this Improvement themselves and in
foe years2
Interested parties have spread the
report in towns favorable to the bond
issue that, if the bonds are voted down,
New Ulm will pay for REINFORCEMENT.
In towns tributary to Sleepy Eye
they say very frankly: This is our last
chance to get the county seat removed
to Sleepy Eye. Vote down the bonds
and then we will have the seat removed.
Neither one of their predictions will
be fulfilled. New Ulm cannot and will
not pay for the court house, except its
just share by regular taxation. Two
new lines OF railroad are heading
towards New Ulm and both will ask
for bonus. The two will probably ask
for forty or fifty thousand dollars and
there is no likelihood that New Ulm
will cripple its prospects for aiding
these roads by giving away for a court
house al the credit it has.
The ST. Paul, New Ulm and South
western and the Cannon Valley roads
will be OF immense advantage to the
people of this county. The first would
give US direct connection with the
Duluth roads and consequently i'm
prove the New Ulm wheat market. It
would also strike the Iowa coal fields.
The other road, being Il part of the
great Rock Island system, would be a
competitor to the Chicago & Northwest
ern and would consequently lower
freight in that direction. With these
prospects before us anyone can we'll see
that New Ulm could not assist the
court. house without giving up all hope
OF ever securing new lines of railroad
AS for removing the seat, there is no
probability of this being done. \ large
majority of the people of Brown Comfy
are opposed to any change. Ii for no
other reason it is on the score Of ex-
pense. The county has u valuable
tract of land and q good Jail building
here. Tue two alone are valued at
twenty thousand dollars Besides this
the county has fifteen thousand dollars
invested in the new building and they
would rot be apt to give up this pro-
pertv for q visionary thirty thousand or
any Other amount
Some ask, if Sleepy Eye can give
$4,000 towards building Il courthouse
why cannot New Ulm, with three times
the amount OF capital, do the SANE ? /
will answer the question by asking an
other: Do you really believe that Sleepy
Eye intends to give that sum towards
building a courthouse? After mature
consideration you will answer No, for
the act athorizing them to issue bonds
does not say that they mast give $50, 600
but that they may vote to issue bonds
in sum not erceediag that amount.
Furthermore they must vote on this
proposition some time next month. 1t
is not at all sure that the taxpayers of
SleepyEyo will vote to do so. But as
Stunning for the sake of an argument
that they will approve the act, and we
will also assume that the seat should be
removed to Sleepy Eye. then they could
decline to give any aid,or they could say
we will give one hundred, or one thous-
and or ten thousand dollars. We
were authorized to give not to erceed
$4,000; but we have decided to give
less because we cannot afford to give
such sum and besides this the county
ought not to go begging, for the coun-
ty is better able to pay than we are.