Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-01-19
EDITOR News

When 1 was a boy, in plowing
summer fallow for fall sowing in
wheat, 1 would often plow up a
bumblebee's nest, and frequently
get stung, but 1 always had the
satisfaction of eating the honey
when the racket was over; and in
stirring up the grafters in the clerk
hire business, and getting roundedup.
If can accomplish nothing else, it
will be satisfaction to stir up the
gang and see them squirm.
have been rounded up by some
of their spokesmen, and their argu-
ments are. ''We must pay large sal
aries In order to get high order of
intelligence" Now that argument
is enough to make thoughtful man
sick at his stomach.
have known every man in the
County clerks and the County
treasurer's Office since the organiza-
ton of the county, and the most of
them had hard work to make ends
meet at any thing and at any time
until they were elected to Office.
Then if they would ever be satisfied
it would be different, but is has been
continual graft. When they could
not satisfy themselves on the salar-
les, as prescribed by law, they grew
very busy and elected for represen-
tative an inexperienced boy, and by
flattery and Irish smiles, and a doz-
en- signatures to a petition, got their
CRAFTS legalized, so as to give
favorites soft jobs and soft snaps at
larger pay than they could get at
anything else.
If they were only representative
tax payers there would be some ex-
cuse for their greed, but how many
men have been in these offices, who
in their whole lives paid taxes
enough to pay their clerk hire for
one year.
No, it is not a higher order of in
telligence that we need, it is higher
order of morality; men that will not
pile unnecessary burdens on the
farmer and stockmen, the real pro-
ducer and tax payers, so that they
can have pianos, good clothes, good
salaries and a good time, and US
fellows in the country foot the bills,
and they get all this done on petit
ton with a doztn names signed to
it, and the signers are ashamed to
own it; and when we want it repeal
ed it takes the names of majority
of the voters of the county to even
have the proposition taken into
consideration.
If we could have the circle on the
top of onr ballot taken off, so that
every man would be obliged to vote
for each candidate on his ticket, we
would have a derrick that would
hoist this class of people so high
that they would not get down in time
to hear Gabriel's horn.
There is no earthly reason why
we should pay more than other
counties in the state for doing the
same work.
We simply let these fellows who
live on the per cent of what we pro-
duce do the shouting and we follow,
so as to be in the swim.
1t is amusing to see men who ad-
vocate measures from policy rather
than from principle run for cover,
when the ''kid glove" gentry goes
to kicking.
Our taxes are about 7 per cent.
1t is outrageous, and no earthly ex-
cuse for it, only that we elect too
many men to office, who consider
public office a good place to raise
a per cent more than is right. When
men come here to invest and see
the grafters and extravaganza prac-
ticed in the county they are DISGUST
ed because it takes reasonable rate
of interest. on the capital to run the
county.
E. H. BOYER,
FRANK P. MARSHALL.
Best Buck wheat -four at Dorland