The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-02-13

| winch naQ grown up ana thftYeQ under
the dishonest rule OF Republicans.
The FIRST step towards a reduction of
taxes is necessarily retrenchment In
expenditures, therefore, your determi-
nation to pay more for legislative
printing than competent and respon-
sible parties engaged to do it for was
neither logical nor promising. Your
evident intention to create new, use
less and necessarily burdensome board,
Ostentatiously dubbed Board of
Adjudication and Control, is not a
measure happily adapted to a decrease
OF expenditures but is a direct i'm
parchment Of both your commonsense
and fidelity. Your garrulOus disre-
gard OF the constitutional provision
that members Of your honorable body
riding on free passes should not collect
mileage from the state IL more credit
able to your private frugality then to
your public integrity, But, sirs, the
prOtracted and acrimonious Squabble
in which you have engaged over the
passage Of bill honestly designed to
reduce the exorbitant fees and salaries
of county and state officers is perhaps
the least praisoWorth , Of your many
discreditable acts. Natural graees of
character sometimes lead men into ex-
cesses and we make no doubt It WIS
sweet gratitude and generous devo-
ton that moved you 10 rob the people
to pay your favorite printer. limo
cence is often responsible for the most
glaring fOllies, therefore, your simple.
mindednesS may be cited In justiflca-
ton of your Board Of Adjudication
and Control and ValIse of Irrigation.
Prudence is not infrequently the
motive behind seemingly unaCcount-
able and inexcusable conduct, hence
we may fairly charge your mileage
grab to an uncOmmOnly thrifty devel.
opment. But, sirs, what honorable
apology shall we make to your constit-
uency touching your strong indespoSi-
tiOn to enact a measure of retrench.
ment so manifestly popular and just as
a reduction Of official fees and salaries
Your design to change the plan of
management Of the Soldiers Home, in
vOlVing saving to the state of two or
three hundred dollars, will scarcely be
regarded an adequate offset; neither
will the imposition Of licences upon
banks, peddlerS, merchants, livery
stables and sheepmen, aggravated by
taxes on mines and churches be con-
sidered such 1 lifting of the burden of
taxation as your pledges contemplated
or your ante.election protestations |
promised. You will observe that the |
imposition of new and extraordinary |
taxes, while often the refuge of insin. |
cere and perplexed statesmen, is not
usually satisfactory OF consistent re-
lief.
In connection with the election of a
United States Senator it may be said
to your credit that you did nothiug to
exalt yourselves above reprOach. Ac-
cOrdidg to signed statement made by
one of your most distinguished mem
Oers, Hon. 10. Rich of Bear Lake county,
you succeeded in Disgusting a Demo
crat "at heart" and passing him off for a
POpulist. This is a tribute to your
cunning at the expense of the morality
and common intelligence of the Re-
form Union. If true, it speaks well of
Henry ueitfeld's ability as a political
nyprocrit; if false, it is a creditable
to Hon. 10. Richs vera
lily. Altogether it is eloquent of re-
form ethics.
Amid enthusiastic acclamatlons you
lnstigated religious war against the
extOrtions of railroad corpor.
'tiOns and the people were lulled into
'lissful expectation that at last these
Monsters were to received at your
lands body blow. 1t must be quite
lear to you that railroads were built for
he express purpose of making money
or their Proprietors and that, in the ,
anguaga Of reform, is one of the I'm.
'ardonable sins. You promised and
Vero expected to interpOsO inSuperabIe
bstacles against the continuance of
UGH purely selfish and nefarious bust =
less. You are supposed to establish
DO principle that railroads should be :
eVoted wholly to public charity, and =
nat anyone who ChOrishSs the hope of 4
riVate profit by the operation Of rail. 7
Dads, either as promoter, operator or n
weston, is an enemy to his country. :
ut, already, alasl the palsy is in your n
nees and the panic is in your hearts :
our brave purpose is oozing out q
trough every pore and cr0vice in q
'ur honorable body and it is much -
AIRED that when the bill to reduce >,
Id equalize railroad charges comes on n,
T final consideration, you will wilt: T
70 measure will be assassinated be. r
re your eyes and you will neither
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