The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-01-16
;AIJK CENTRE HERALD.
URsDAyJANUARY 1e, 1890.
DIR OPPORTUNITY,

have appropriated S4ooo LOT an ho"
br;doe across the river on Main-st. IN I,
this city, providing the city will raise
like amount tor the same purpose, anu
TO th 1t end the council has called a
special election, as will be seen by the
official call presented elsewhere in this
paper, to vote upon the proposition to
issue bridge bonds in the sum OF $4,000.
it would be the height offolly to throw
away the appropriation so generously
offered by the county, and the citizens OF
Sank Centre will scarcely let this amount
OF money slip through their fingers by
lack OF interest in an affair which so
deeply interests them. For years our
tax payers have contributed literally
toward building bridges in all parts OF
the County of Stearns, and now that
the opportunity has come for other por-
tons OF Stearns to help build bridge
here it is not at all probable that it will
fail to be improved.
In the first place. the bridge must be
built either with or without the aid OF
the county. The old structure will not
hold together much longer, and has been
CONDEMNED as unsafe That serious ac-
c;dent has not occurred is mere matter
of I'D fortune. The truest economy is
to BALD safe and practically indestruc-
tible Bird e, to be u :ic ent i'll is &C
commodations for any demands which
NAV be made upon iii. An iron bridge
nrouxr,v constructed, will meet the re-
uu,relnents as none other possibly can.
1t has been suggested that serviceable
wooden bridge can be built for far less
money. That is true. 1t is equally tr;;c
that in the long run the wooden bridge
will be the r11ost expensive for the city
will have no help in its construction, and
it will be replaced at no distant day.
An iron bridge will probably last forever,
and the cost for repairs will amount to
nothing. Every consideration OF econo-
my and sound fnancierng deman ds
that the offer made by the county be
accepted.
But suppose for the sake of argument
it b. not accepted. What then! A new
wooden bridge must be built. Where is
the money to come from? A special tax
will have to be levied of not less than
$1,000 or $2OOO-estimates by experts
vary between these figures, and we shall
be compelled to pay it all at once. And
for what? For bridge which will have
to he renewed at least twice before the
bonds called for to erect an everlasting
structure will fall due. Melrose has just
completed an iron bridge practically at
the same cost and upon the terms now
proposed and not n citizen there could
be induced to have the old bridge T.
stored. Certainly Sauk Centre is not
less sagacious and public spirited than
our ncighboring village.
IsS'r little late for interested pill
ticians to spring the charge that Hon.
CD. Buchanan sold out Mr.. Sabin in
the great Senatorial fight of last winter?
Has Mr.. Sabn any standing in a cour-
ofequity with a bill charging any one
with selling him ..out i'll a fight for the
United States Senate? 1t is true Mr..
buchanan declined to continue the fight
for Mr.. Sabin after the republican eau
Gus had decided for Senator Washburne,
and in SO doing he merely expressed his
allegiance to his party aud its methods.
For this he is entitled to no special con-
s.deration. He went into caucus conf
fdently expecting to bring large block
of republican votes to his candidate, but
in his attempt to shear he got silorn, and
accepted his fate like man. There is
snail occasion tor any one finding any
fault with his action and still less for re.
fighting the senatorial battle with all
its unsavory details.
ALvAH EASTMAN, editor of the Anoka
Herald, has been appointed by Senator
Washburn internal Revenue Agent a
position which somewhat corresponds
in the reveneue service to that of inspec-
tor in the post office department. The
Anoka Union says the place is
worth 3d. 500. His headquarters willfor
the present he at Louisville Ky. He is a
Maineite, but according to the Letters he
he wrote home from there las summer
the transition from Maine to Louisville
will not be great.
THERE is fun ahead in the rapidly APP
preaching political campaign. There
are plenty of Vulnerable points in the re-
might attack successfully but tor the
fact that the democratic armor is so
thoroughly umointd that it will scarcely
hold to gether at all.
THE man who condemns the railroads
of the state as an unmitigated evil is on
a par with Kim who claims that the only
cause Of complaint the farmer has is to
be found in his inherent incompetency
and shiftlessness. Both are wide of the
truth. The railroads are indispensable;
the farmers have abundant reason for
complaint of the burdens laid upon them
by all sorts OF combines-the problem is
how to get the greatest good out of the
former with the least abuse, and how to
confer the greatest good upon the latter
without any abuse.
WHEN tie next political mince pic is
cut by the republican convention OF tais
state, if less attention be paid t" the size
ofthe pieces and the number of plums,
and more to the recipients OF both pieces
and plums it would be better for both
party and state.
Stear1s county will be lively politi-
c Il field this tall, and free fight may he
anticipated. There is little cause for the
republicans to feel any serious appre-
hensions-it will be a democratic pow
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