Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-10-02
ARGYLE'S BOND.

ARGYLE'S BOND.
On Monday this week the Argyle
Spectators fled q bond with the
register OF deeds for $4,000 running
to the board Of County Commission
ers to be forfeited in case the signers
thereof use their influence with the
county board to secure the erection
OF a "magnificent' court house in
Argyle within the next five years.
The bond is patterned after the bond
which the people in Warren executed
some time ago, and which the editor
Of the Banner and the Argyle schem-
ers have declared again and again to
be worthless. Now they have them
selves isshed bond modelled after
the Warren bond. IT'iiis proves most
conclusiTeiy that the editor OF the
Banner and the Argyle "boomers
HAVE BEEN LIEING TO THE People OF
THIS COUNTY about the Warren bond,
for if said tohd was worthless as they
have claimed, why have they issued
one patterned after it? No, the bond
which the Warrenites has issued is
perfectly good, and we will not say
but the Argyle bond IS all right as
far as it goes, but it does not go very
far, as can be easily seen by examin-
ing it's conditions. Let us ste what
the bond says: title condition Of
this obligation is such that il the
said charge made as aforesaid by the
citizens OF Warren, proves to be true,
or il at any time within the said FIVE
years any Of the said citizens OF Ar
gyle shall urge or in any way ask the
said Board Of County Commissioners
OF said county to erect Il new court
house Or to buy a site for one, at
Argyle aforesaid, and shall thereby
induce them to erect such courthouse
or to buy such site, then this obliga-
ton shall be in full force, and in such
case the above sum OF money shall
be paid to said Board of Commits
sioners, or their successors in office
Immediately; but if such charge so
made by the citizens OF Warren
proves to be false and unfounded and
If the said citizens OF Argyle shall re-
fraiu from causing the said board OF
county commissioners to undertake
the erection Of any new court house,
or the purchase Of site for one at
Argyle for the period oforesaid, then
and in that case this obligation shall
be void, and otherwise in full force
and effect"
1t will be noticed that this bond
DOES NOT BIND ARGYLE IN ANY SHAPE
OR MANNER TO ERECT NEW COURT
HOUSE; it simply binds it's signers to
refrain from using their influence with
the county board. This they can
well afford to do now, since they al
ready HAVE USED that influence, and
secured majority OF the commits
sioners in favor Of their schemes.
The execution OF that bond by Ar
gyle is like locking the barn-door
after the horse is stolen. But it
would not be necessary for Argyle to
use any influence whatever with the
county commissioners in case her
selfish schemes should carry, for the
LAW makes it the DUTY OF the com
missioners to provide offices for :, -.
various county officers, Even II al
the commi .s,eloners were unfriendly tr
A~rey!e (which they s,re hot) they
would be Compelled to build a court.
house there, in case the change is
made. In the absence OF any binding
obligation upon Argyle to build Il
court house, it is self evident that the
SaxApayers would have to pay for the
same. This Argyle bond is but an
other blind by which they try to de
ceive the voters. 1t will be notice.,
tllat the bond says nothing about a
county-jail, and this the county must
| npcpSaarilV h1iIl at itc nwn everyone,
in chse a change is effected. The
name of Ira G. Richardson, the arch
schemer OF them all, is not signed te
the bond, neither is the name of Mr.
Cnlbertson one OF their real estate
"boomers." They can consequently
= :heme and use their ssinfooence'
with the county board all they wish