Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-01-10
THANKFUL FOR MERCIEs SHOWN.
An "Old Pioneer" Offers Up Prayer For
Blessings Received.

1t was a cold night recently when ]
stopped at the barn of an old pioneer
down on the creek and heard him pour
ing out his soul in Thanksgiving and
prayer for mercies given during the year
Just ended. l caught part of 1t and was
so impressed that | give is here: 1--WE
are truly thankful for bountiful crops OF
everything bat potatoes and apples.
Pasture has been good, cows 5id well
and butter was high. We are thankful
! for our farmers creamery which gives
us all there is in il without any steals or
| frauds and we are thankful that our
! buttermaker is educating us to be neat
sni clean and to feed the COWS we'll The
hand of God is directing Ms in this
creamery business and we will soon cut
out the ungodly tobacco business for
dsirying and decent farming.
I'VE feel truly grateful that this year
our taxes, which for years past have
| been awful. are milder and easier to pay
Instead of being ground down by high
rates we are able to live and pay them.
We are thankful that they are sixteen
dollars on the hundred less than last
year. We feel truly thankful to De
| Jean who last year cut OFF by injunction
that infamous omnibus" taA Of hun
| dred dollars for every town and village
in the county. Already he has saved
s. 400 in taxes to Vernon county and We
etill live. We pray that at the end of
ten years when his savings to the county
by that injunction amount to twenty
seven thousand dollars, q tablet of iron
be placed in the court house to commem.
crate him and the salvation of this great
sum. We feel to thank that polished,
gentlemanly schoolmaster, Linke, from
our eastern border, for his conservative
work done in the equalization Of taxes
May he be wise as q serpent and harm.
less as a dove We feel thankful to the
county board for not taxing us fourteen
thousand dollars this year for roads and
bridges but for making IL only nine
thousand We pray that no county aid
may ever be given for any long iron
bridge over any dry rnn Rock and
cement and woven wire fence are cheap
er than plank and iron and endure for
ever.
we are thankful 10 the four several
chairmen and others who served injnnc-
tions to restrain the payment Of taxes
Illegally assessed Grant, we ask, that
every apprOprlr ton for taxes be made
strictly according to law Grant that
an overhauling be made every year in
every Office in the court house, and every
where else. Grant that every county
officer who takes Illegal fees be made 30
pay it back threef0ld. Lord, there is
graft everywhere. 1t begins in the road
districts A third of our loudest mouth
ed farmers condemn graft il state and
nation and then go on the road to work
eight hours day and loaf two hours of
the seven they are on the road. Grant
we pray, that this road tax be paid in
money and good men be hired to work
the roads. Grant that more intelligence
be used in road making and more per
manent work be done. We feel to thank
the county board for the wise economy
they showed in visiting the asylum and
county home on the same day, thus saw
ing a hundred dollars Lord, the records
of the county should be accurate and
complete and neatly kept. They are
records for all time. Grant that every
official who keeps his records parfect, in
plain legible hand, receive the praise
of the county authorities.
I'VE feel to thank Thee for the evil
dence on every hand all over our land
of civic honesty and righteousness. We
thank Thee for president with back.
bone and we are thankful that such
men as Folk, Jerome and La Toilette
and that stripe of men are becom-
ing the idols of the people. Only little
further along the brainy men who are
battling against the legalixed traffic in
liquid death, will be the idols and then
our nation will quit being chief partner
in the saloon business.
Lord, all of us in the county never
had more reason to be thankful for Thy
kindness. Everything seems to be 60
ing the right way. We have plenty to
eat, plenty to feed the stock, little
money in the pocket; we have had beau
tiful weather all the year, and good
health to enjoy these blessings.
Lord, it looks as If most of us poor
sinners willso time have appendicitis
1t is expensive going to La Crosse We
ask the county board to consider the ad-
visibility of erecting hospital in the
county where tax payers can go to have
their rebellious appendices removed.
Ii is hard on poor folks to lose their ap-
pendixes. The doctors bleed them for
all they can stand. but they do good
work and save valuable lives which
twenty year ago would have been lost.
Grant, we pray, that the period Of
high taxes is past and that gradual de-
ClAub Will COItibt 0TdHb Luhb We may
not school our children too hard-help
us TO remember that our boys and girls
have souls and bodies to develop rs well
as intellects Answer our prayers this
year as they were answered last and help
us TO lead honest lives And finally we
ask that the law be enforced which gives
every justice the power to sentence a
worthless, drunken fellow to hard labor
in our county Jail. We have men who
are swilling down every cent they earn,
spending it for liquid death while their
girls and boys and wives go cold and
hungry. O. Lord, grant that hereafter
at Viroqua Jail stone pile be- installed
for such culprits and that every justice
of the peace do Thy will by sending to
hard labor every such yagabond who
loves rum better than his wife and chill.
dren. Bless Tim Pollard for starting
this good work and help him to continue
it. Help all the justices to lead men
not into law suits out away from them,
and thine shall be the praise.