Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-05
The Reporter . Farmer.
THURSDAY. NAY, s, 1889.
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Mr. Allan Cacthss hot Shot Again.
Ed. REPORTER AND FARMER:


Dssr Sir. I'm the Day County
Herald Of march 81, 1892, l notice
m article signed A. NJ. Allen, in
reply to which | will make q few
remarks, il you will grant me the
space, although it seems useless to
write anything a q comment on
Mr.. Aliens production, since | see
in his article he can almost double
81 IS by adding $l.05 to it.
Mr. Allen says: al wish to say
distinctly that l do not consider
Mr.. Langland resposible for the
production, only IN - very small
degree" Just stick to it, MIR. Al
len, it will have u tendency to in
splre confidence in your assertions.
Again Mr.. Allen SAYS: "No Mr..
Editor, the real author Of the arti-
cles in question, (ths ono in the issue
OF Febusr, 1Sth,) and March IL, is
hiding behind the name Of his
friend.' Nox Mr.. A. if that is your
belief, why did You abuse mo in the
way you did in the Herald Of Feb.
25th? and why are you saying!
"there are several questions in the
last part Of Mr.. La. article" ETC.,
thus giving me credit for both arti.
clcs. Your reasoning is i~ncompre-
hensible to me, but 1t appears as
though you were trying to fix it so
that you can say. 'Damn you if
you did, and damn you if you did
not" write the articles in question.
In either case you are welcome to all
the glory you 8 get out Of your
attack On me rs long as you are
trying to gain anything by mlsrep-
resentation and false assertions.
Yeu make a great ado about a
misprint in The first article in re.
gard to :he taxes of York, and
thereby clearly demonstrate that |
can not figure. IL you will call at
my place will show you the origin.
al speech as 1t ia written and de-
livered in thu scandinavian Ian
gusge, before the extract appeared
in the REPORTER. There it says
"York As mills OH the dollar" and
"out Of that IL mills for state and
county purposes, leaving "a mills
for the township" Since you
have been proofreading for the
RsPoRTER, why did you not call
attention to tine fact that the word
"not" was left out of the sentence,
in above extract, and not say \ word
about compelling the county to pay
SIC per month for each inmate of
the Insane Asylum? and why did
You not call attention to the state
nent of march 18th, in regard to
the amount of the bonded debt
under President Harrison up to
june 3)th, 1891, which was $751;
009, GAO, instead Of 1884, 009, as ]
e you hare been examining the
figures and say they are probably
true!" IL was all right that they
showed thousands instead of mil
lions, just on the same principle
that it was right to pass York un-
noticed when it showed only *
mills, but when in the second arti
Gle, | showed % mills school tax.
then the mlssprint became visible
at once; and caused you to exclalm,
GLOW is that for figuring," and
yoa took pains to figure out the
Isl right and wrong. but had not
tho maaly couras to let the readers
of the Herald know which is
right. Your only object in figuring
was to show there was a mistake
and you wanted to confuse rather
than explain. Oh. honesty, thou
art, indeed, a jewel.
Again you say: 1.-The assertion,
why gentlemen they have almost
doubled your taxes wac literally
trne;"' For proof, | toe, will refer
10 tax receipts. l have before me
receipt No. :, l46, for 1889, on vslus-
of 100 acres OF land ut &444; con.
soiidated tax at III mills, t44S. l
examine receipt No. q, 1873, for 1890,
for the SAME tract Of land, and /
find 1T valued at t741, which, at s
mills, gives IS. 93. IN ow let us
take Ascend look vt these receipts
and see what they prove" Your
rec .ift for 1889 reads, 'eTerritori-