Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-13
That School Meeting.

A stranger reading the perverted
statement of the proceedings of our
recent schoolmeeting as reported in
last weeks Teller would come to
the conclusion that the good people
of Lancaster are hard lot. The
residents of the county however,
who are acquainted with the pre-
sumptuOus, inSolent and abusive at
titude the Teller always has as
Isumed against friend and opponent
ever since it was thrust upon the
people oflthe county, are more toll
Grant as they consider where 1t
comes FROM
3 The proceedings of the school
meeting were regularly conducted
and the rulings of the chairman Just
and correct. The vote to table the
resolution was carried by vote of
16-to %. The minority attempted
to call up the resolution during the
latter part of the meeting. John
lSchreiner suggested that no person
who voted with the minority could
call upa tabled motion. The mi
nority endeavoredlto trap the chair
man on this point but it did not
work. That of course made some
Of the movers angry. The majority
fairly expressed the sense of the
meeting, and after jangling about
the lost cause motion to adjourn
carried. Mr.. Shimmin's sugges-:
tions were sound and in point, the
dirty slang of the Teller's reporter
notwithstanding. The trap set to
pass a resolution increasing the
board to seven members did not
snap. The spring was rusty. It
would have been calamity to have
the number of the board increased.
Those who desired to fill the four
new positions undoubtedly had
some scheme in mind that would
have been forced through. The
greater the number of members the
greater the chance of additional
taxes.
The majority present were not
aware of the intent to introduce
this resolution. Why did not the
movers inform others that such was
their intention beforehand. The
same resolution has been before
previous meetings and was always
voted down. The Teller would
have said, somebody wants an
Office" The board has not asked
for an advisory board they are
capable of attending to the little
there is to see to without further
assistance. The idle talk of gag
rule was the thinnest argument
that could have been used a major
ity has some rights the minority
ought to respect. It is generally
the minority that by diIatory mo-
tions tries to take up time and de-
feat the expressed will of the major
ity.
The cowardly attack on Richard
Meyer was such that all decently
disposed people should resent. Mr..
Meyer is as much of a gentleman,
as honest and capable a business
man as the editor of the ''only Tel
Ter" or it's reporter ever was or ever
will be. Because man may make
a mistake in an investment that
does not make him a bad man nor
rascal. Nearly every business
man has met with reverses at one
time of his life or another. If Mr..
Meyer lost any money by trusting
another man it was his own. None
of the people who repose confidence
in him in any manner suffered any
loss whatever; but it is a mean
spirit that throws in a mans face
his reyerses, land more than that
gloats over the misfortunes Of
another. 1t comes out of the
depths of a depraved mind. More
than that the Teller article charges
Mr. Meyer with debating to others
what to do. That was the most in
famous falsehood that has ever
been published. He remained on
the platform throughout the meet
ing and had no communication
with anyone but the chairman dur
ing that time. The entire article
was an insult to those members that
voted to lay the resolution on the