Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1893-08-17
w. Y. W. COLUMN.
Matters OF Interest Fearlessly Dis.
cussed for the Peoples Good,
ANOTHER RAY oE, SUNLIGHT

hNolhEh RAY pE SUNLIGHT.
Bro. Stratton saws the Office of Comfy
Judge should be abolished, because the
clerk could easily attend to the work!
That county officers do not earn as much
salsr y as they get, and that the county
commissioners eau just as well do in two
or three days all the work they. take two
or three weeks TO do. There il q little
significance IN the Seginiag and ending
OF his article.
Besinning-b bxorbItant prices for
printing are Keeping us Door"
Ending-''Dontg give it to few"
We have heard these things before
think II was .Jerky Davis" that first dis
covered them. But somehow they didn't
impress US then ss now. And while it
might be Illuminating for person who
revels in bliss to acknowledge error. it is
not for us faulty sinners, SO We now
under clearer light state it to be our be-
lief that these things are awful in
fact awfuiiy awful. aud hereafter We are
right with Bro. Stratton.
There is lots of work being done in
this world that could Just AS well be done
cheaper. The PRESS has often thought
how extravagant and foolish it is for the
people to pay Grover Cleveland 81. 900 Il
year just to be president. when there ara
plenty OF us who would ,emporiiy hy
aside our business or far ming aud take
..Skx fAs a a. :.
Kyle and Congressman Pickler getting
about $l5 day. and no need OF II. We
Judge something ON the same line of
thought 1spuIsatius through Bro. Strst
tons brain IN regard to county OF.
GERS. There's Treasurer Rosenkrans un-
der $35. 900 bonds, and Register Teller.
who are getting sl25 a month. Now
cheaper men could take these jobs for
less money. Perhaps Bro. Stratton
could be induced to take one at $lOJ-or
any sum just 81 it is less-which will save
the county considerable in the four years
our careless and extravagant tax payers
elected them to serve.
"Abolisb the office OF county Judge" is
under the circumstances, almost rich
enough to be one of the judges own
pratical jokes! But We iaycr abohshirg
the office Jan. LIST, 1895. according to
Legislative enactment!
And those commissioners! Why what
. pack OF lazy shiftIess fellows they are!
SO metimes they hsye the audacity to hire
men on their farms TO take their places
while they come to the court house and
fritter away two or three weeks and pay
board, and horse feed. etc., when they
could just as well do the work in two
days-even If other counties require
several weeks!
For ten years the various county CON-
missioners have been elected by you tax
payers TO rob you-some of them you
afterwards elect to other Offices to fritter
away your time aud noney--And you've
gone on dong this year after year DIS
playing at home what Marx Twain calls
Innocence Abroad" These commission.
ers come to tho county seat five or SIX
times. and in whole year get about 1926
each. when the other county officers
could just as well take their dinners with
them to the court house aud do this work
while they pick their teeth.
or course We are all bound to see
some difference in little MINOR thing,
and about giving "exhorbitant prices fol
printing to few" We stand this way: II
we are the few. its all nght-but il W.
aint in it, why that's different and we are
| opposed to it tooth ani toe nail. The
| head Of this column ". Y. ". stands for
when you whitrle," ana means we shaI
inform you people that when yol
whittls, white from you and You won
cut yourself. and other equally import
an, ruiks that you don't seem to catcl
1 onto,