The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-23
TAXPAYERS.
The Duluth Taxpayers League. Right In
the Mud.
POORoBUSINESS.
Pending Investigations, the Laborer's
RighrfulSMoney Is Withheld.

Inc INVESTIGATIONS D6l0g Carried
on by the Taxpayers League are con-
duciye of much qualification TO the
members of the league. The league
feels it has done its duty TO the
county in holding up the pay rolls OF
the deserving poor who have been en-
p1eyed on the roads the past summer.
What an immense saving ~ this viii
u.ean TO ST. Louis county? The dol
lar that should be paid the a2borer
will 60 towards paying the expenses
of suits and actions inaugurated by
the league to save the county from
ruin and destruction by reason of
some superintendent having paid road
labor a fair price for work. There is
no doubt in the minds of the people
but what the league viii in time do
some good. In the meantime the
men who have money coming, can
wait: the merchant who trusted him
for necessaries during the time he
worked on the road, can wait, his
family, who need clothes for winter,
can wait: all can wait, until a few
LAWYERS in Duluth who did not have
anything in particular to work at, be
thought themselves Of the Taxpayers
League and now hold up the due
money to help the county save money.
To man UP tree, il looks very
much as if the league is trying TO
shield a few rotten dealings that can
not bear the light. To do this they
insult honest men knowing full well
that in the excitement of the present
investigations, the people would lose
track of the frauds perpretated in the
oast which they were trying to shield,
not on the county roads, but not over
a hundred miles from the Duluth
court house.
The only trouble found SO far is On
a piece of highway leading from Du-
luth, up over the hill There is
where the league should have inyesti-
gated. Why not investigate these
things beforehand? How about the
scheme wherein all Duluth concurred
10 give away $3.50, 900 to build rail-
road to the Mesaba range? The
scheme originated in Duluth and it
was Duluth votes that carried the
election. How about the project to
build that road to the boundary?
Has it been thoroughly looked into by
the league? Everyone in Duluth and
up as far as Tower says it is a good
scheme. The road to Tower is good
scheme, north of Tower it is not worn
a continental Let the country de-
Telop UP there TO the necessity of
roads and in the meantime make
highways for people who have waited
for ten years for the county to do
something
For years and years this county has
built roads and for years and years
the tax payers of the county have
been satisfied with the manner in
which the money was expended. The
Taxpayers League, newly organized
institution, eminating from Duluth,
who consider themselves St. Louis
county, as they have always done,
find that the county is spending too
much money on roads, They, from
force of habit labor under the idea
that every man in the county, except
themselves Of course, is a rogue and
is trying as hard as possible to beat
the county. Fer the years past, the
county has stood al the expenses at
tendant on opening up of new roads
During the past three months many,
who formerly were sucking county
pap, but. who were let out in the
administration that took charge Of
the reins year ago, have formed
themselves into Taxpayers League,
and say they wiz investigate. OF
course, they have right to invest
igate. But, why not pay the men
what is due them, and what they
sorely need, and investigate after
wards. The Taxpayers League. of Du-
luth. is not built that way A short
time ago, runners OF Irregularities in
the road work iH the immediate
vicinity Of Duluth began flying thick
and fast. Then the Taxpayers
League was organized. Investigations
were begun The first thing to do
was to hold back the pay Of the men
ON the county roads Throughout the
county. Why did not this eminent
body OF mens many Of whom never