Amador ledger., 1907-04-26
A Premier in Logic.

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stood that ''notice to taxpayers" is |
not legal notice in the sense that a |
sheriff s sale, summons. notice to |
creditors, etc., are. Its legal status
is dead after two publications. With |
the ether notices mentioned it is |
different.
The Ledger's excuse for continuing |
publication after U. S. Gregory took |
oEce is lame one, and we offer this |
conclusive comparison: Ginocchio
Bros. and l.. GIavinovich are runn-
ing adveI tisements in the Ledger. If
either of them should change pro-
prietorships, would the Ledger con-
tInue the advertisements without first
consulting the new proprietoIs? Not
by long shot. If the Ledger did
continue the advertisements what
chance would it have before the law
of collecting from the new proprietors
an advertising bill for which 10 con-
tract or agreement had been entered
into. None whatever, and the Ledger
knows it.-Record.
What an apology for logic. Our
cotemporary has become hopelessly
stranded on a mental fog bank; and
the more he founders, whether from
malice or ignorance. it matters not,
the more pitiable becomes his self
abasement. The above is not worthy |
to be digni6ed by the name of argu-
ment. 1t Is nothing more than the |
rawlings of a dis-ordered intellect, |
prompted by Interior motives to
attempt to befog and deceive an
intelligent public. 1he writer of the
above stuff is not entitled to serious
consideration, but the public whom
he thus endeayoIs to lead astray is
entitled to protection against such
methods. The effort to draw the
line of demarcation between the
''notice to taxpayers and other legal
notices, borders on imhecIIity. The
only definition of a legal notice is,
"a notice the publication of which
is demanded by the statutes. Further
more all legal notices stand upon
exactly the same footing as to their
legal status so far as their publica-
tion is concerned. In the technical
language of prInteIs-they are "Iive"
ads until the time limit mentioned
in the notice has expired, if any date
is mentioned therein. A sheriff's sale
is set for a day certain, mentioned
in the notiaa-I The aduartisement is
Giving" thing until the particular
date has been reached. In like
manner, the ''notice to taxpayers
required to be published by the tax
collector, mentions the last Monday
in, April as the day of final delin-
quency; it is ''Iive" ad until that
time limit has been IsAD Dhed, and its
publication By the printer, on the
order of the officer having authority
over the same is legal charge against
the county up to that date. and no
longer.
1he comparison between business
advertisement inserted by private
firm and the taxpayers notice is
odious. 1t is as foreign to the point
as a Greenland iceberg in the Sahara
desert. When private person orders
an dVertisement, he does so on. his
own responsibility solely. His act
binds no one but himself, and tie
printer must look to him alone for
his recompense. He cannot hold his
successor to account, because his
position gave him no such authority.
With the taxcollector it is other wise.
He represents not himself, but the
people for whom be does business,
and while he may retire, resign or
die, the Office never dies, and his |
empoyer-the people eolIectively-l
never dies-never goes out of bust |
ness. When one official drops out bv |
reason of expiration of term, his |
successor takes up his work where
he left off. If he wishes to make
changes, he can do so by express
command; In the absence OF such |
command, the WORK started by his
= predecessor goes right along as if no
change has taken place in the in
dividuality of the official.
If the reasoning of our contemporary
"SAO "OUhNS "nab-d ulEeIul SGdl0 OF
affairs it would lead to. 1t would
follow as an inevitable result that
when a change occurred in the pei
sonality of the president of the
United States, or of the governor of
the state, every appointee of the
ex- official would have to quit his
duties, until he had received orders
from the new administration to con-
tinue his functions. He would be
barred from assuming that the |
appointment or instructions under |
the former executive were binding |
upon him until shrogated by the new |
executive. The wheels of government |
would come to an abrupt standstill |
OF course, such position is absurd,
but it is exactly on all fours with the |
Contention that the notice to tax
payers should have been dropped
from the columns of the Ledger with
out any express orders to that effect,
and for no other reason than another
servant of the people had stepped
into the position of the taxcoIlector
who ordered the notice inserted.
Enough said.
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