The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-02-04

missioners, in their deliberations and
official acts, adhere to narrow lines
and unbusiness-like methods
especially injurious to this COM
munity and of no resulting benefit to
the county at large. The business
and operations Of our citizens every
where require that they shall have
an outlet TO the Railroad if only to
market their SURPLUS HOGS.
Every individual company or cor
poration undertaking the development
of any enterprise, no matter of what
nature, must and will find railroad
outlet, and an intelligent comprehen-
sion of county interests will suggest
to our commissioners that it should
be their aim to see that that outlet
will be sought and found within our
borders, so that those developments
and the traffic resulting therefrom
shall add their mite to our taxable
wealth and bear part in the pros
perity of our people. The fact that
Weiser is the only available natural
outlet should not operate against it in
considering the advancement of the
county's general interests. On the
contrary, the highest natural interests
of the county demand that Weiser
shall receive broad, liberal and intel
ligent consideration from our com
missioners; that every bridge and
highway leading to it be improved
and made easy to travel; that neces-
sary roads now asked for should be
built, in order to direct traffic incident
to developments within our borders,
the benefits of which are now lost to
the county because, through prejudice
and the parsimony of county manage
ment and consequent lack of roads,
they are obliged to find an outlet in
another state. A policy that fosters
such conditions as these is, in the
strongest sense, reactionary and re-
fleets discredit, not only on the officers
directly responsible, but on the people
at large, because progressive Amer
lean spirit should condemn in no un.
certain terms any policy that makes
it possible for other communities tc
reap the benefit of resources that by
every right of equity and justice
should accrue to our own people,
whose interests, material and social
are bound up in the welfare of the
county. The same methods that in
telligent business men apply to thei
business should be applied to th'
management of county affairs.
1t will not do to refuse sanction t,
needed improvements or to say tina
no roads shall be built, no highway
opened nor streams bridged becaus
+ the individual so miles distant ma,
) not be benefited equally with the on
/ in the immediate locality, or becaus
2 the expenditure may not affect a
| alike, regardless of natural conditions
| physical and otherwise. To permi
) such reasons to influence county lee
/ islation would be to place fetters O
progress and energy and premium
' on retrogression and apathy. Sue
5 reasons are dangerously narrow an
s no one enlightened enough to make
capable county commissioner will er
D tertain them, because, as q result c
z all progress, some locality must an
e will derive more benefit than another
e and some individuals there or else
where will derive more benefit tina
h their neighbors. This is as naturs
= and self-evident as that one comml
0 nifty is more favored by natural cor
d ditions, or is composed of more enc
s getic and progressive people, or thi
d one man has better capacity an
d business foresight than another
k That it is a mistaken idea of dut
S goes without saying, for commi
sioner to assume that he is expecte
t to oppose every proposition for pu
d lie improvement. Nor is he expects
IS to know everything and all things 7
if quired to be done in the interests
IS the county. 1t will be enough if
h will bring into the discharge of h
le duties a comprehensive understan
rs ing of propositions when presents
,r and pass intelligently on the fac
le when they are in. If he will recei
ge the petitions of taxpayers, get a l
v port when the expense is justified
Is guaranteed, and afford said tax-pa
De ers an opportunity of presenting fac
G. and reasons in support of or again
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