Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-30
that Of the pupil, for that matter. With
such a course of study the teacher will
be obliged to educate"
DON'T BE DECEIVED,

DON'T BE DECEIVED.
The TRIBUNE did not think that any
person would have the temerity to dis
pute its figures on county finances, but,
strange to say, they have been disputed
by an irresponsible sheet publised in the
interest of Mr.. Healy. The figures which
the TRIBUNE gave were gotten up by
Auditor Avery and are reproduced in an
other column, with his signature at
tached. As MI. Moorhouse took these
figures and distributed them in circular
form, he is accused of wilfully trying to
deceive the people. AS Mr.. Moorhouse
is one of the interested parties, the TR1B-
UNE has given him space to explain more
clearly the disputed figures and show
that they are absolutely correct.
Moffet publishes what purports to be
the grand jury report on Mr.. Healy, but
in this, as in everything else, he conceals
the truth by publishing only a part of
the grand jury report. The TRIBUNE
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jury report, and as Mr.. Healy is so
anxious to stand upon this report as a
record of his financiering while a county
commissioner, the TRIBUNE also prints a
few extracts from the grand jury's criti-
cism of his acts.
The TRIBUNE is not running for Office
but has the interests of the county at
heart and would like to see a commits
sioner elected in the second district who
would give the people a good economical
administration. Such a man the TR1B-
UNE believes Mr.. Moorhouse has been
and will continue to be. The best proof
of a mans actions is his record. MI.
Moorhouse invites the closest scrutiny of
his doings on the board of county COM
missioners. And all the TRIBUNE asks
the voters of the Second district to do is
to investigate and compare the records
of Messrs. Moorhouse' aud Healy and
then vote their convictions. Don't be
deceived by a lot Of silly twaddle about
corporation candidate, railroad taxation,
tax levy, etc. The TRIBUNE shows in
another column how the supporters of
Healy are trying to deceive the voters
about the tax levy. The increse in the
levy for 1891 is made by the state for
state tax. 1t costs more to be a state
than a territory because while a territory
the federal government paid a large share
of the expenses. The levy which the
county commissioners make was 9 mills
in 1889, 6 7-1O mills in 1890, and 7 mills
in 1891.
Mr.. Healy pretends to say that Mr..
Moorhouse's figures for the expense of
keeping the poor in 1889 are not cor
rect.
Look at the grand jury report in
another column.
MI. Healy cannot deny these figures.
The total cost of keeping the poor farm
and needy poor in 1889 was $4,34S.86;
take from this the lumber and repairs
for the poor farm, which amounts to $758,
and it leaves $3,590.s6 for keeping the
poor for the year 1889. Look at the
item of railroad fare for transportation
Of paupers, SAILS {. That's a GOOD deal
to pay for transporting paupers from
this county in one year. Who we're these
paupers? A little enquiry will show
the rottenness of this deal.
AS to the assessment of railroad land,
Mr.. Moorhouse did not do the assessing.
Where a farmer has an unimproved
quarter section it is not assessed any
more than the railroad land adjoining.
If the single tax theory was the law of
the land, then a farmer would not be
taxed for his improvements, but as the
law now stands, a piece of improved land
is assessed more than unimproved prop
erty. Take any of the instances which
Moffet has quoted and deduct the price
of the mans improvements from his
total assessment and you will find that
he is assessed no more for his land in a
general way than the railroad is. See
the amount of taxes the railroad has
paid the county since 1880. That tells
the story.
VOTERS in the second commissioner