Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-11-02


being circulated in placards in the
interest OF the court house crowd:
MORRISON COUNTY ALL RIGHT.
A statement showing the financial
condition Of Morrison county on
January LIST. 1898: =.
Taxes for 1898 due and un- -,
paidJune 1st, 1884,. .$11 ,315 Oh
Taxes for previous years
unpaid. d............... s........... IL ,96O 81
Interest and penalty on un-
paid taxes. ...:. 1850 90
Total.........:.................$33, IT'S 80
Total amount Of floating
debt January .1st, 1884,. ..$23, 1893 Ga
II delinquent taxes were
paid all floating debt
>- would be wiped out and
: there would becash in the
treasury amounting tO....$1O,3S1 26
: When will the court house crowd
learn that 'tcrooked'' statements
will not deceive the people, and that
an attempt to deceive the taxpayers
only arouses their indignat ton? IT, = +
Any taxpayer knows that the de-
linquent taxes do not all belong to the
county-they include state, school,
town and city taxes. Then the
county taxes are not all revenue
taxes, but include road and bridge
fund, court house bond interest, rail-
road bond interest, etc. Yet the
statement counts all delinquent
taxes, and penalty and interest to
pay off the county revenue debt!
Do you believe honest men would
approve such statement?
Possibly about one-eighth Of the
delinquent taxes are due the county
revenue fund,
- The "taxes for previous years un-
paid" are not worth 30 cents on the
dollar, so of the $17, 7,96OS6 tits not
probable that the county revenue
will ever get as it's share $1,000.
@Y Yet all that sum is represented as
properly coming to the. county reve-
nue. fund. In fixing the floating
debt at $23 3,393.64 only the county
revenue fund is considered, but why
is the court house fund overdraft OF
1904 ignored? If one overtlraft is
part of the floating debt, then an
other ia. .<% :..,
But why such an effort to avoid
discussing the year 1893, the time
when the Democrats had every
county off1ce?- They no longer at
tempt to deny that the county rev.
enue debt was increased over $4,000
that year.
The actual facts are that the re.
ceipts of the county revenue fund in
1893 were $15,011.25. At the assessed
valuation of about $3, 200 900 the levy
of mills for county revenue (the
highest allowed by law would raise
but a little over $4,000. and when
county revenue expenses to the
amount OF over $25,OOO were made
the county officers knew they were
issuing thousands of dollars in or
ders that could not be paid by the
years taxes If they were all collected
the day they were due. But that
doesn't need repetition much more,
because the voters now thoroughly
understand that. -.
The thing that now attracts their
attention is the falsehood and de-
ception that is being employ ed by
the county gang, Their record as
managers Of the county business is a
bad one, but their effort to deceive
the people they have wronged is
MANIFOLD worse. Several weeks
ago the Democratic papers publised
n statement on county finances in
tended to deceive and itsincreased
the feeling against the men it, was
intended to help. Now another
false, deceptive and crooked state
ment is put out, and the voters will
rely with an Overwhelming verdict
against the men who first carelessly
and extravsgantly waste the peo-
ple's money and then attempt to de-
ceive them about the real condition
of the county. Any man who
i would in court on the witness stand
make an oath to- the truth Of that
statement, now being circulated
would be indicted by the grand jury.
NO county. officer will dare sign it.
Frank Ellenbecker, county auditor,
will not publicly claim it is q fair
and honest sta tement. 777@s> -
Down with the whole gang that
resorts to such methods in county
campaign.
49,. ,s5st.ss s..,. 4 a9. s,:4.. .s. ~ h
ssr burglars. sas:
Sunday night burglars got into the
cellar of P. J.Tomelty 8 store. The
same night they attempted to get
into A.. Tanners warehouse but
failed. They, however, threw a brick