The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-07-07
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1892.


aught else but the welfare of th
people that we indict this article
which we humbly ask you to peruse
And though but too well we are awar
of the utter feebleness With which w
will give expression TO the thought
we wish to advance, still it is hopet
that they may so far be made plaiI
that you will fully grasp the ideas VI
would seek to convey, even to mucl
greater extent than our own limited
conception Is capable. 1t is no
known whether or not any of you
wish to again FIJI the position you nov
hold, but in the event that not one Of
you do wish il, nor would accept il
again If unanimously offered, the fact
remains the same that the time of the
authority under which you are now
holding is fast expiring. Would il
not be better, then, to close your
administration in manner that will
command the respect, at least, Of your
constituents, your friends and your
neighbors, with whom you must deal
and among you must dwell in
private life? 1t is certainly better
and more satisfactory to you to have
them point TO your services as good,
reasonable and wise than as
detrimental to progress and contrary
to good reasoning and Judgment.
Economic, you say, you wish to be
considered by the people. Yet
economy, true economy, does not
consist Of in stunning all that has
the name Of expenditure, in channels
calculated to return two fold, three
fold, yes ten-fold, Of the money
derived by taxation Of the public for
public purposes and benefits, By
drawing the lines of economy to an
injudicious narrownessyou are certain
TO lose to- the people, in the end,
treble the amount it would have cost
to have pursued more enlightened
more advanced and civilized course
course that would meet with the
commentator of all reasonable and
progressive men. By refusing to
pay small sum for legal advisor
and relying on your own idea of law,
you have become involved in lawsuits
wholly unreasonable and uncalled for
and from which you cannot extricate
yourself except at loss to the tax
payers, whose interests you pretend
to guard, far exceeding what a little
timely advice would have cost
Proper legal counsel would have
saved to the people these sums you
are squandering uselessly. Gentle
men, will not reason enjoin you from
cutting the throats Of enterprises
which the people, who are furnishing
the money they ask expended, come
In bodies to ask Your judgement
certainly is not better than hundred,
or two hundred of your constituents.
The building Of roads, though they
cost money, will certainly increase the
taxable wealth, facilitate commerce
and save money to the people to such
an extent as to far exceed their cost
OF construction; and while the county
has bonded debtwhich you love to
harp upon, it will not be payable
untifour children shall have grown
up, and even they will not have to
pay it. as 1t will have been paid fully |
and completely by The revenue from
the resources built up by the very
enterprises in the way Of highways
Ind other improvements you are
constantly being asked for, which
you are trying to down on the ground |
of debt. BY not building these you
arc again loosing more than their
construction amounts to. You are
not in the least lowering the burden
of taxation, as it cannot be lowered |
until borne by the additional wealth
and resources which these enterprises
would bring. You compel us to
drag on under your false economy
bearing the same never-lightening
load every year You would compel
our children to grow up and assume
the load and when the bonds come
due (the payment of which we could |
have easily provided for they, being
no further advanced in the scale of |
prosperity than we are today, will be
unable to pay them; then they will
point back in derision at the policy of
their fathers. The Mineral road, or
rather the lack of it, has already
lost this county many, many dollars.
Gentlemen, If your aid in the Seven
Devils, or any other road, is asked
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