Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-10
CONTINUES.
TO the Anger Of the Herald
and Sorrow Of the Court
House Crowd.
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The Transcript Heeds Not
the Suggestion to. be ST.
lent on County Finances.

Something over two weeks ago
the Transcript called attention to
the remarkable record of Morrison
county's finances for 1893, during
which time the county revenue ex-
penses were $4,000 more than the re-
ceipts of the revenue fund. Such a
condition naturally reflected on the
management Of county affairs, and
also on the officials who control
those affairs. 1t was matter
which should and does attract the
attention of taxpayers. 1t is a sub
ject upon which the county officials
are very tender, and the newspaper
in which most of the court house
crowd are officials and stockholders
was particularly enraged.
The Little Falls Electric & W alter
company supplies the city of Little
Falls with IS hydrants for fire pro-
lection and receives in orders there
fore So, 44O per annum. and certain
water power privileges, and also
supplies the city with rs arc lights
and receives $2.496 a year'for them
a total Of $685. for fire protection
and street lights. w. NJ. Fuller, is
"1nanager'' of the Electric & Water
company and editor of the Trans
cript What better explanation
could he given OF the unnaturally
heavy county expense, therefore,
than an attack on the Electric &
Water company and it's manager?
1t was certainly to the advantage of
the county officials that the public
should hear no more Of the cOunty's
financial condition, and it was sup
posed that an attack on the interests
OF anyone who seemed inclined to
;,gitate the county finances might
operate as a very successful "bluff."
The Herald therefore announced
that the county w1s being run ecom-
ically, but that the city was being
robbed by the Electric & Water COM
pany. The Herald closed it's TRADE
with the statement:
"rhe Herald MAY have something
further to offer along this line"
The attack ON the Electric 4
Water company was part of the
article in answer to the transcripts
comments on county finances, and the
threat that it "may have something
further to offer along this line," was
clearly a proposition to continue
the attack ON the Electric & Water
company ii the subject Of county fl
nances was continued. The Tran
script couldn't appreciate the sugges-
ton that it's editors slight interest
in the Electric & Water company, or
even the entire interests of the COM
pany, were in such shape that at
tacks were to be feared, or that any
public or private interests would be
damaged by a thorough understand
ing of the relations of the city of
Little Falls and that company, or
that public interest would warrant
silence as to county finances. Con-
sequently the Transcript continued
its references to county affairs, and,
other things, directed the at
tention of the taxpayers to the fact
that tine floating debt of Morrison
county had been increased during
1898 over $4,000. II the Herald was
enraged before it was vicious now.
The E. & w. company was again the
object of it's anger, and the editor OF
the Transcript was denounced as a
boodler, a bum. an imbecile-in fact
but respectable.
Still it was a subject that the Her.
aid thought might be dropped to ad-
vantage. and therefore says in it's
last week issue:
"The Herald has a few more
facts which it MAY feel called upon
to offer soOn."
That was fully rs plain as the for
mer "bluff," but, as the columns of
the Transcript have shown, it did
not have the desired effect. AS soon
as that was plain the Herald's
rage and viciousness developed into
frenzy, and what the unsatisfactory
and slow methods of newspaper
warfare had failed to bring about,
was to be accomplished instantly by
other methods. Some people are
great successes at not doing what
they attempt to do. and It looks as
though they would keep their old
gait.
J AS we have SAID before, the tax
levy Of Morrison county for the rev.
nnun find ia aRE high As the state Ia 10