Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-02-21
A WillfuI Liar.

A Wlllful Liar.
1t is rather a serious matter to call
person liar and when the qualify
ing word is added, the statement is
made as strong as words can express,
and this is exactly what we wish to
do when we accuse Zook OF the Lime
Springs Sun, of willfully lying in his
article "Wny Taxes are High" II
the PLAIN DEALER alone was con.
cerned, we would pay no attention to
his hungry whine, but we are satisfied
that in awarding the contract to the
PLAIN DEALER, the board was actu-
ated not by desire to give anyone q
graft" from the public treasury but
to secure good job of printing on
time and with the least trouble to the
officers who have its preparation IN
charge.
zook's first statement that 1.-THE
first Of the month the editor of the
Sun made visit to the county seat
and asked why he could not make a
bid," &C., is false. Instead Of this he
wrote the auditor in regard to the
matter and was answered by mail, the
auditor enclosing the 1908 report and
telling him it would be about the
same this year, and Zook ,aeuer entered
the AUDITORS office, as he claims, and
',ever auas told 1t soas aa,yo,se's turn to
print it. The question Of, veracity
between the Auditor and Zook, we
will leave to our readers to Judge.
Zook also makes a statement that
is true but misleadtngly used and he
knew it: He says the Cresco printers
were allowed Sl92.91 for printing and
says that If there is bonus of e35 on
every hundred it must take quite q
bit out of the pockets of the taxpay.
ers. Zook knows that the two main
items of the s192.9l were the amounts
paid the PLAIN DEALER and Times
for the official publication Of pro-
ceedings, &C., and is paid at a rate Jtzed
By lao and Zook can see and figure the
bills If he doubts their correctness.
Part of the amount was for job print
ing, charged at the same price that
the Cresco printers make all their
customers, price which enables
them to live and bug coal but not get
rich on.
Zook is continually Dragging about
the work done for Cresco parties.
We know he occasionally does work
for Cresco parties and we have never
blamed them for going to Zook with
the work as when 9 man donates hil
work and simply gets pay for hii
stock, no printer with good sense
wishes to compete with him. Crescc
printers are glad to see Zook get such
jobs for every one leaves him worse
of than before and means the ulti
mate extinction Of one fool, .price'
cutting competitor. In his last issue
he crows about the delivering Of a big
order to CreSco parties and on another
page. in one of his regular weekly
whines he says: GAN we need money
for is to buy coal to thaw out the inl
to print a paper. You, may notice
that we did not get the ink quite
warm enough last week. We don'l
know how it will be this week, but II
we don't get some of the money thai
is coming to US p. d. O., we will have
to shut up the shop and wait for the
good old summer time to thaw things
out" The Board probably took thii
into consideration in awarding the
job and as they wanted it before mex
summer wisely decided to give it tt
some one who could get trusted fo1
coal till the job was out. Really
those Cresco parties should pay VI
for. that last Job at Zook's-he need
the money.