The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-09-29
GUMS NAN, FRIDAY.


Giles for the Moscow Star in the last issu,
OF the sheet rushes 30 the defense O
Gum in the matter OF the bills passet
by republican house and defeated by
the Demo-Pop., combine in the senat,
10 reduce the rate OF taxation from s;
cents on the 500 to Is cents and also Il
issue $4,000 to make needed repairs in
the public buildings Of the state.
Gum is not very fortunate in the de
Tense which this seli-appointed man
Friday, puts up in his behalf. What he
wants to do if he wishes to preserve even
modieum reputation fer truth and
honesty, is to pay the Star scribbler a
salary to take a vacation until the cam
paigu is ever.
Here is what the man Friday saws
Captain Gum showed that the reduc-
tion OF the state tax levy was contingent
upon the passage of the bill 10 issue
bonds; that this bill to issue bonds de-
clared that the proceeds should be used
Tor the payment Of the salaries OF the
governor and other state officers and
other purposes, and that as the general
appropriation bill provided for these sal
aries, there was no need OF appropiatins
The money a second time, hence the bill
was defeatad.''
Now, we will not cali the author OF
these statements liar, because it would
not be newspaper courtesy. We viii
not call him fool because he happens
to be the editor OF Democratic paper.
but We will say that there is not even
semblance OF truth in any OF his state
ments. We will not charge Gum with
lying, because We are not at all certain
that his man, Friday reported him cor
rectly, as man capable OF making such
statements is utterly incapable of under
standing an ordinary proposition, or
constituting any kind OF public measure.
Ii Gum made the statement Friday
GAYS he did he is the greater william OF
the two, because he is in position to
know better.
The bill to reduce the taxation from
IS cents on the 800 TO IS was introduced
by Hopper, of Latah, Jan. IL, 1898.
That to issue bonds for improvements
on public buildings was introduced bv
Mill, Feb. %, 1898. There was no con
nection between the two measures
The statement that the reduction OF tn.
state tax levy was contingent upon the
passage OF the bill to issue bonds is a
pure fabrication.
Besides, the bond bill was not intend /
cd to pay contingent expenses. The /
only place in the bill where allusion is
made 10 the saleries Of the governor and
other state officers is in quotation from
the title OF previous bill. The bill IL
sell shows where the money arising
from the sale of bonds was to be applied.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars was to 90
Tor the purchase Of additional land for
The State Insane Asylum and some i'm
proyements to this institution, while the
OF eightyfve thousands dol ;
srs was to take up outstanding warrants ,
ilready issued for various matters and ,
which were drawing 10 per cent. inter .
st. As the bonds were to draw only .
per cent. interest on all such outstand- ;
ng warrants.
There was no proposition to make an I
the second time for mon /
y. The bond bill had in it no such /
'roposition. Had the bond bill passed /
would have saved the people OF the I
tate 5 per cent. interest Of SIS 900 out r
landing warrants, and they could have h
aid for the necessary improvements in a
be state buildings gradually from
ear to year instead Of having to pay
ut the money now in ,bsse ,;,,.a - il
nancial stringeDcy. C
And bad the Hopper bill become a a
aw, the people would not have in their il
ockets 800 600 they have been forced g
D pay out on taxes these hard times II
yer and above what is actually required t.
D meet the expenses of the state. a
This is the indictment the people Il
ring against the Demo-Pop. combine, p
nd for this reason they will turn them Ii
own at the coming election. II
The puerile plea that the bond bill Il
as not good one, even fit is admitted, Il
finishes no valid excuse for beating n
ne other one to reduce taxation. Why II
id not the combine pass the one, and II
,ject the other? te
Rise up sgain, Friday and explain. &C