The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-09-25

two quarters and about two months.
He drew pay for two quarters and
rendered his resignation, not being
sufficiently stuck on the job to
continue the work at the princely
salary of $1.66 per month. The
salary might seem extravagant in
the eyes of a gentleman of leisure,
but it is not very alluring to a busy
printer who has to put in type 4
column communications from
sore head trustee g.
If Mr.. Wright could not make
his June report from the records in
his possession, it was his duty to
attend the meeting and so report
to the taxpayers. By so doing, the
most humble hay seed at the meet
ing would have been able to tell
him that he could get complete,
itemized statement from the county
treasurer. 1t was quite impertinent
in Mr.. Wright to send the books to
person whose duty il had not
been to keep them and tell that
person to make another's official re-
port. No, S. d, Taylor did not ex-
perience any trouble in the matter
at all. He simply ignored the inn
pertinence. No report was requir-
ed of him as trustee or az chair
man of the board. He had no
explanations to make. He was
satisfied with whatever verdict his
fellow citizens passed upon his
official record, fully confident that
his future critic would hammer
away a long time before he seri-
ously tarpished that record. In con-
Guiding this we will say that when
S. D. Taylor did walk up on that
day to cast his ballot, he did not
stick in a blank, nor ask anybody
to let him stick in blank ticket,
so that he could carry water on
both shoulders.
Mr.. Wright says he did not men
ton our name in connection with
his report, but then he is so child
likel 1t has been previously ex-
planned how he sneakingly aimed
his criticisms.
The school trustee who is great
on records but no school says the
report" was made in good faith
and we shall try just as hard as we
can to believe him, but if he will
permit a very humble citizen to
offer a suggestion to one so eminent
as he in reports and records (but
with no school) we would say that
his report" would have had much
more of the semblance of good faith,
had he told the dear people in that
report" what arrangements he had
made about starting school. II
would have had more of a semblence
of good faith had he first done
something creditable himself be-
fore he started in to report
what his predecessors had not
done. AS it is, in looks as though
the report" was a piece of pious
fraud
There are other points CD in
the communication we shall notice
) as we get time.
And now here has been a great
hue and cry about the records anC
to what purpose? No materia
. purpose has been brought out, bu
the HERALD will nov briefly ex
plain the purpose, dwelling upor
the subject again when we publish
2 the next installment.
The purpose, then, as we inter
pref it, is to divert attention from
Mr.. Wright's course in the matte
of employing teachers and starting
e school. In these matters he ha
set himself up as a public dictate
4 while he should be only public
= servant to carry out the will of the
;, people. He has refused to recog
s nize the right of the people to pc
T. tition. He violated his word glveI
e to the committee of ladies VIII,
called upon him in behalf of tn
r peoples choice for principal. H
t has violated his duty to the teach
S er's of Kootenai county, and tn
o county superintendent has don
right in setting down on him GOO
e and hard. And now an indignan
t and mistreated people are on tn
d point of petitioning for his remova
S from Office. Is it any wonder h