The Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1905, 1905-03-18
The COUNTY CAMP AIGN
Situation To Be Passed Upon by
Voters s-Incidently The Posi-
ton of The News.

ton of The News.
From what The News has been able
to learn from various points in the
county, the people appear to be awake
to the present eafnpaign. This is right
The public should select it's officials
with care. If they do not, what follows
is their own fault. Everyone should
be satisfied if all the features of the
of the situation are placed before the
voters and passed upon. In the county
judgeship canvass, in which most of the
interest prevails, several of the village
propers were active presenting what
was called McGill's merits. At the
time when these efforts were the most
active The Ladysmith News was organ
nized, and this is what one of those
papers, The Tony Enterprise, says:
eve are informed that Ladysmith
is to have a new newspaper shortly. =
We do not know if it proposes to fill a
"long felt want or not. Apparently
that town has a suficiency of papers,
and good clean ones too, we are glad
to testify, but perhaps another can find
room. If what we have heard as to
the purposes of the founders of the new
enterprise is true, there are some live
w times ahead for some people. The
paper is to be named "News," and will
be edited by A. D. Campbell, formerly
of the town of Dewey
Now, The News purposes limiting
itself to the facts of the record in what
it may say, and if that makes "lively
times for some people," those "some
people" will have to content themselves
with the ''lively times II statement
of facts of public interest make "lively
times it is not the fault of any news
paper. But why should the Enterprise
expect 'liyely times?' Does it know
the facts which have been smothered?
If so, as a public print, why hasn't it
published this? To illustrate:Why has
MT it enlightened the people as to the
unnecessary cost of transcribing the
record of real property?
Why hasn't it told the people how the
the salary of district attorney came to
be placed at the handsome figure of
$500 with 80 little to do?
Why hasn't it told the people of Nc
Gill's charge of $659. "A for listening to
John Barnes speech in the division
case. when he was drawing handsome
salary.
The taxpayers would like to know
some of these things. It is to long a
story for this week. The News is pub
lished especially in the interest of pro-
gress in Gates county It realizes that
low taxes are necessary. To get that
we must have rigid economy in local
affairs. It purposes given the taxpay-
ers the facts they will take care of
the result:
Our experience is duplicate of the
of other new counties. Read what the
Price county board of immigration
says:
During past years, land and timber
owners complained bitterly of high tax
ation-and justly so, In early days
many unscrupulous adventures were
attracted to Price County. These men,
crowding themselves into offices, began
system of thievery which was contln-
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became numerically strong enough to
turn down. Honest men are now IN
control, while their predecessors have
gone to work new fields. Large in
debtedness has been lifted and the fin
ancial interests Of the towns are being
placed in normal and healthy condition,
and as consequence, taxes aregetting
down where they ought to be. What
is the record of other new counties?
! Generally the same. Others have
gotten down to business. We should.
But, bear in mind this, that the
county court is the most important office
in the county. It is practically unllmlt-
ed by law. Your estates may be pre-
served or they may be slaughtered. 1t
is your matter. We have nothing to
say personally are strennuously
opposed to anything approaching mud
singing. Official record is public pro-