The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-08-30
BLACK SAYS NE
IS WRONGED
Commissioner Tells the indie.
pendent That He is Not
Against the Repeating Of the
Herd LaW..-fIis Action in Re.
gard to That Question Will
be Watched.

| County Commissioner VIM.
Black visited the Independent Of
flee Friday shortly after the pa
per was out, and asked us to set
him right in the minds Of the
public regarding his attitude on
the herd law. Mr.. Black says
that he did not express himself
as being against submitting the
question OF repeating the herd
law to the vote OF the people, at
the last meeting Of the board of
county commissioners, but says
that the balance of the commits
sioners did not seem to be in ia
vor of putting the county to the
extra expense.
We hope that the commits
sioner from the western part OF
the county will do what he can
then to induce the other men,
bers of the board to agree with
MIN to submit the important
question. When asked by the
editor Of this paper if he would
do what he could at the next
meeting to bring this question
before the people, he declares
that he thought it was too late
to do anything. Mr.. Black stat
ed that as far as he is personally
concerned, he does not care one
iota whether the herd law is re-
pealed or not, but stated that he
believed a great many farmers
did not want the law repealed.
The editor of the Independent
differs with Mr.. Black and told
him so, and asked him if he would
be fair and do what he could to
bring the question to a vote. Mr..
Black said that he did not see
why the county should be put to
an expense of even twenty dol
lars for the election, whereupon
the editor of this paper told him
plainly that the Independent
would gladly furnish the ballots
free. He said that the county
would pay for their own ballots.
Now voters, you see where we
are at. The Independent does
not want to do any commission
er an injustice, and will take the
trouble to interview each OF them
separately. The question will
either be submitted, or the Inde-
pendent will see that these CON-
missioners are placed on record.
We do not believe that all of
the commissioners are against
submitting the question, how
ever.
Again, we declare that there
are several hundred names sign
ed to petitions in the auditors
office asking that the question be
submitted. When Mr.. Black was
asked if he knew this to be a fact
he said he did, but said that a
majority of the voters had not
signed the petitions. This is not
necessary. There are enough
names to warrant any board of
county commissioners to place
the question before the people
next November.
The herd law should be relegat-
ed to the past. Ward county is
an agricultural county and it's
not right that the farmers should
have their hay and crops de-
stroyed by cattle certain months
in the year.
We again repeat that if Mr..
Black wants to show the people
that he is fair, he will try to
place this question before them.
If we have placed Mr.. Black in
the wrong light, we are sorry,
and at all times will be glad to
change any mistaken opinion Of
him. We trust that Mr.. Black
is not against the proposition,
and are willing to take his word
for it. Actions speak louder
than words and Mr.. Blacks
course will be watched by the
farmers ofimperial Ward county.
So will the action OF the other
commissioners.