The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-03-10
Why tho Village Presidency Is Shun
nod and Accepted Under Pro-
test as Compulsory.
SEEKS THE MAN.


For Trustees, for Three Years
WILLIAM DoucEr.
CASPER ABERLE.
WILLIAM RUSSELL.
For Clerk
HERMAN RAu.
For Treasurer
OTro VI. Brown
For Street Commissioner
JonN DoI.AN.
For Assessor
PAUL r. SMITH.
AT n caucus held on Monday evening,
Il ticket was placed in nomination, which
after several Withdrawals aud substitu-
tions is made as follows:
For President
EDWARD SWEENEY.
For Trustees, for two years
CASPER ABERIE.
LOUIS +. JOHNSON.
FRANK RAHER.
For Clerk
HERMAN RAU.
For Treasurer
OTro NJ. Brown.
For street Commissioner
GormEIB PFEIFFER.
For Asscssor-
GEORGE T.. Noos.
There are few villages in Michigan, or
any other, state for the matter OF thnt,
where the Office Of village president is not
Il marketable" honor; where men Of
sterling business qualifications do not
consider the honor attaching to its in
cumbeucy ample compensation for the
labor necessarily performed. Much to
the discredit OF It's people and TO the dis
grace OF Iron county, such Is not the case
in Crystal Falls
Here, az circumstances within tho past
week have demonstrated until Il has
become in the minds uf even strangers a
fact patent, the Office goes begging Tor an
incumbent; men avoid everything that
bears the scent of municipal organiza.
tion, rs though contamination meant
swift and sure calamity. And why2
The solution Of the problem il not
difficult 20 obtain. Here IL n
village OF few hundred souls
a few pretty homes and commodious
business structures, with an indebted
ness hanging over il amounting to nearly
SO, 900. Over hall of this enormous
amount is in the form Of bonds, the in
terest upon which will lsoon have Fcached
81 800. 4 heavy depression has fallen
upon the debt.ladcn infant, aud the
source from which il has derived large
revenues in the past, the liquor revenue
gives promise oi being reduced TO the
minimum, while those who intend TO con
tinuc in the liquor traffic, will beyond a
questionable doubt, tender the price uf
their license ia village warrants, which
have promscuously flooded the county
Tor years. The end is approaching; the
large amount Of interest which the bonds
have carncd, is payable in the funds Of
the nation; village warrants will not
satisfy this claim; the treasury ia
empty; no more bonds cnn be issued !;
there is no promise Of revenue, aud q
wild cry Of despair goes up from those
who have watched and guided the de.
moraizing process Oi iinaHcinl ruin,
"Como and pull us outw With thiscon-
dition OF nfiuirs, men who prize
their busincss reputation nrc not quick
To mingle Hence, in Crystal Falls,
the village presidency hunts the man.
TuE DIAMOND DRn.L hereby makes
public property OF an evil, which must
surely bring n blush TO the check of
every seli-respccting citizen who is forced
To- admit that Crystal Falls il his place
Of residence. Yet II il an evil for which
every citizen Is in part responsible. IL
is not the shabby business methods Of
those WHO hnve plunged il into debt That
are solely responsible for the disgraceiul
result; u Is the voters 81 Crystal
Falls who have allowed unfit men o.
continue 10 heap debt upon insolS cncy,
year after year, until mn auction sale
hnngs over every home within it's limits,
20 satisfy only small percentage 81
interest earned by portion oi the cnor-
NOUS debt, which the cIrcc-holdcrs through
their ballots or apathy have guaranteed
20 pny.
II Is no pleasing duty 60 mike public
this li~graccinl condition Of affairs. The
bird tllnt finds endowment In heioullng