The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-10-20
Editor Peoples Party Column:

II. J. SCHRAPPS
Editor Peoples Party Column:
Dear Sir:-I wish to say a few
words to the voters of Stevens county
and to all other voters to whom
these presents may come, with your
permission. The Peoples Party is a
party forced upon the people by the
necessities Of the times. By special
legislation favoring certain classes,
large corporations were formed,
trusts were established and million
aires were made, and as a natural
consequence, tramps and paupers
manufactured almost one million to
every millionaire. The great middle
class Of America were disappearing
and our very liberties were menanced,
and nothing remained for the liberty
loving people to do but to form a
party to try to stem the tide that was
sweeping us into the condition of the
people of the old world. And what
have they done? They have pledged
themselves to the support Of plat
form of principles as broad as the
gospel of Jesus Christ, and as just as
God himself; and if the voters
of this county, state and nation re-
fuse to vote those principles, and be-
come subject to monied oligarchy,
they have themselves to blame and
no one beside. But as all these
things can be discussed in the state
papers, and as we are confined to one
column in this paper, I wish to say
few words about county politics, and
county politics are prominently
business politics.
In state and national matters there
is always divergent interests that
must be compromised so that we may
have a homogeneous whole; but in
county affairs all inc ests center in
having the county business we'll and
properly done for the least possible
amount of money. Now the law of
taxation is very arbitrary law, and
when the taxpayer is called upon to
pay money that he knows will be
lavishly and reclllessly expended, he
is apt to say words that smell of
sulphur, and [, for one, can't blame
him very much. Now the candidates
put in nomination by the peoples
party of Stevens county are, with the
exception of auditor, men we'll quail
fled to fill the respective Offices to
which they are nominated; and they
stand pledged to stern and relentless
economy in the expenditure of the
county funds. I have been &C
quainted with the candidate for
auditor for close on to seventy
years, and unless egotism and selfish
ness has made him blind, he re-
allies his inability to do all for the
taxpayers of the county that he
could wish to do, but his efforts,
backed by many others, has entirely
relieved the taxpayers Of the town of
Morris from paying any tax for town
purposes for two years at least.
That the old fellow is a crank is, I
suppose, conceded, but if crankism
brings forth such results, possibly, it
might do to put an old crank in the
auditors office. The voters of Stew
ems county are the parties of the first
part, and I unhesitatingly leave the
matter in their hands.
According to the present way of
conducting our county affairs, our
bonded debt, large part of which
was fastened upon our county, either
by gross incompetency or by bribery,
is to remain to plague us as long as
We live, and remain a legacy to our
descendants forever. Now what the
nominees of the Peoples party stand
pledged to try to do if elected, is to
so economIze the expenditures of the
county, that without increasing tax
alton, they can save from $1,000 to
5000 with which to establish a
sinking fund to finally pay our
bonded debt. It would be an in
teresting problem for our taxpayers
to figure out; if our county, by
economizing, for the last ten years,
had laid aside $1,000 each year as a
sinking fund to pay our bonded debt,
and kept that money drawing inter-
est until now, how much bonded
debt would we now owe? All | ask
is that the voters of Stevens county
and the taxpayers should carefully
and candidly consider these things,
and vote according to their honest
convictions.
One word more and / have done.
We have put in nomination for as
sembly, two straight forward peoples
| party men; capable, honest, incor-
ruptable and worthy of your sup
port; see to it that they receive a
full vote. G. SAX,