The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-08-08

The Ignorance or Dufendach on
the Subject.

iiuniingburg Independent.
Says an exchange: News has bee,
forwarded from Indianapolis TO the efIec
that vigorous and united protest 4
going up from farmers alliances and 90
lcieties and fraternities against the enor
nous fees received by county officers. \
begins to look now, for the first time /,
many years, as II public sen timent vii
90 strong enough TO force the next leg
islaiure to enact fee and salary law.
bill cutting fees and salaries OF count,
Offices has been presented to every Iegis
la'ure Tor fifteen years, but the officer,
have regularly gone to indianapolis wei
organized, pro, ided with ample finds
and have defeated the Legislation viii
ease. but tr0ul every psrt OF the State Ar,
heard grumbIings Of discomfort now. And
there u unaninity in declaring that ,hs
pay ~ county officers arc ous Of all pro
portion 10 the services rendered. Here
tor INSTANCE, r. the way the fees run /,
one ~ tho duties Of the county auditor
For handling the school fund lie receive,
= zee % per cent. of all the funds pass.
ing thro' his hands. The duty requires
little work. The State Superintendent,
csIculates the amount Of school fund
app0riI0nment 10 each child, and the
trustees enumerate the mum Ter Of chill
dren ~ school age in their respective
township and cities. The auditor mul.
'ipiies The per capita by the number OF
children reported by each trustee and
pays over 10 him the amount due. For
performing these services The count,
auditors VI lndiana will receive his year
the great ~m,u Of $97,5lS Az, OF an average
Of 81 u59 % each. For t:.is work tl,e ami.
t"r of Marion county will receive g.
4S38l."
The above Is the only reply the iyno.
rant editor r-nlerchant Of the sapient Re-
publican blowers paper deigns to make
!" the CoU1IEK's demand OF him Tor
'pecificstions ~ 10 who OF Du bois coun.
~ officers gets too much salary, and
hat u, like most Of the Republican,
blowers attempts st argument, iound dedI
ipon Al effort to deceive the public and
he taxpayers. lie selects a statement
'e finds somewhere, endorses IL In his
ignorance, and puts forward Marion
ounty as an instance. Our readers "
ecollect that the COURIER sald that IN
ONE OF the largest aud most populous
ounties salaries were excessive notl,
y the average county and that such
sp-hcads as Dufendach, and chronic
sult-iinders as unsuccessful candidates
suaIly are, took their cue in smaller
oun'ies from complaints in the larger
mes. II
This arrogant editor merchant, and
'ould-be leader, assisted BY disgrunfled /
x-county officers. and a score OF pro-
'ssional canddatc.eeches, sorc.heads. "a
&C., continually attacks an Imaginary
ny visible only 10 them selves In their
'jhsh schcming minds, aud now attack II n
70 lawful fees Of county olficcrs, and|t
sumes 10 itemize tho auditors duties as ID
the school fund, fund held sacred, alp
md protected by the taxpayers OF eachlt
'unty from loss by neglect OF officers Y
ntrolling same, and he grossly misrep- u
sents the duties required for its proper v
ansgement, to keep taxpay ers from =
Ra. 4
Up to July, 1899, Dubois county con- I"
'lled os2.Sl4 school fund, hence the
. for managing same at per cent.
's $425 per snnum. In July, 1889, the D
lfe added e30,797 moro 10 the care OfIhI
bois county. making . sum total, im|W
md numbers, 1t present time Of|th
'.6lI. and an annual fee I, the auditor
%. This fund ID now loaned out on 10
! estate, secured by sbont 45O mort II
cs, and divided into l6 Copgressiona q To-
one Common fund ON prime ipal, aud 10
70 amount on interest, making thirty. Inc
: separate and distinct accounts. NJ,
ach auditor Il not only required 10 pc,
'ayo this fund, but 70 protect The arc
Q. What is meant by protecting the prt
'0l funds? The answer Il to prnicct
taxpayers from loses on had Ioans
- The frnd proper cannot hos
one cent Ia principal or interest ~ N ri