Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-04-22
County Onlcials and the Census.

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County Onlcials and the Census.
The Superintendent of the census
has been sending blanks to every
county official IN every State and
Territory of the Union, with requests
that they be filled with such informa-
ton as is asked for. If any county
fails to be justly represented in the
census reports, the fault will not lie
with the census officials, but with
county officers. The Superintendent
of the census and his assistants are
doing their utmost to make the CEN
sus reports complete in every partic-
ular, and as much of the information
can best be given by county officials,
they have been requested to give it.
The people In every county are de-
sirous of seeing their county given
such prominence as its merits de-
mand. 1t costs officials but few
minutes labor to fill out the blanks,
and refusing to do so he shows no
consideration for the people who have
elected him, and the people should
show no consideration for his wishes
or demands when he seeks re-nom-
ination. A county official who will
not exhibit little pride in his coun-
ty and have thought for its welfare,
and show some interest beyond the
drawing of his salary, is totally unfit
for any public position. He ought
to be sent back to private life, and to
narrow, selfish hole in the wall,
which his contracted being can come
somewhere near filling. AS public
man he is failure. This does not
apply to the officials of this county,
who as far as we know have been
making efforts to give the informa-
ton sought. But one or two other
counties, and Ada in particular, one
of the banner counties, in which is
located Idaho's beautiful and thriv-
ing capital, has been sighted by its
officials, and the Statesman warns
them up in commendable style. The
official who will not perform few
minutes labor for his county in case
of this kind, gratuitously and will.
ingly, will soon receive from the peo.
pie his just dues-retirement to 6
ground hogs dark hole of oblivion
for which nature intended him. Some
men, from freaks of circumstances, o.
causes inexplicable, get out of theil
proper spheres, but, like everything
else in nature, they soon fall back tc
their natural levels. Mr.. Porter, su
perintendent of the Census, says coun
ty officials all over the United State,
have responded patriotically, witt
very rare exceptions. The countie
wherein officials have exhibited sucl
a selfish smallness will loom up il
the census reports just as grandly a
if they had no existence whatever
Who will be responsible for this
None but the officials who are in pos
session of the information sought
In no way can a county be so widel,
advertised as in these reports, and i
any are omitted the people will know
the reason why, and when derelec
officials are consigned to oblivion
they will no doubt learn the reasol
why. OF course every citizen of Ida
no is most interested in his own coun
ty, but bis pride is not confined t
his county alone. 1t extends to tn
whole Territory, and in order tina
the Territory-soon to be State
shall occupy the position to whic
she is entitled, every county must b
represented in the census report
Each county's propershowing omitte
will be just that much taken fror
what the Territory as whole shoul
show. Every citizen, or every tru
S citizen, exhibits pride in his ow
county, and in the State or Tsrritor
of which it forms a part, and lastl
: in the United States as a whole, {
o which his State or Territory is
part.