The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1911-03-25
TAX EATERS DEFENSE

In the journal of March II, called attention to
two instances of stacking cards. in which the county
commissioners criticized for making play of asking
for bids for county work
One that in which our bid for county print
ing lower than the accepted, and the Prospecor
to whom the work given boasts unbushngly of its
shame and commends the commissioners for the gift.
1t is not our purpose to pass judgment the Pros
pecors method of conducting newspaper and possibly
in view of all the circumstances their necessities have
made virtues of their So, then, this is the way
the S. ]. P. explains the way the trick turned
"The Monte Journal in The issues
severe attack OF hllouness and the oveowng OF bile
therein painful to witness The bile duct opened,
apparently through the county
toner's of RIO Grande conducting the Of
the county as the journal would have them done AS
excuse for the overflow they cry loud and long
against the high the county Illustrate
point by stating that Prospeco
made official paper Of the county and was paid s3sioo
forpubshng the delinquent tax list when the Journals
bid was 5000 for all the printing during he year.
I'VE beenin Informed that such was not their bid,
orh it was its wording did that
The Prospector foury years previous
1910 and during 1910 had been publishing
fetal proceedings of the board free of charge the
county and very little if any legal printing had been
ordered during years l county had been
compelled to for the publishing o proceedings
the bill would have 'eIehed eight or nine hundred dol
and in manner economical and fair.
The JOURNALS bid was in plain English but at the
time it made there ray of hope that l would
be considered (even at such low fgure), and the
has that the suspicion that the thing already
fixed" we'll founded
just how economical and fair the wise board is does
not appear the surface. Did they take into
the free publishing done by the Prospector when they
awarded the work? If this bait did the work. why did
the board ask for bids at all?
Itm be of interest to that purpose publish
ing few of the "proceedngs' of the board free in the
Monte Vista Journal
"They also the in county phys-
cnn chosen for the end Of the county,
subject we are not informed but we Of the opinion
that il the matter investigated without prejudice,
will be found that the board S right.
How any body with without preudice) can see
any gain to the county by paying 1899 to county ply
stefan when there two other applicants for the job
$40 and $40 respectively, is another conunrum-or
something just good
And yet the Prospector gives ont the cheering assur
lin spite ct its alleged ngoance of the transaction
that ut will be found that the board is right" If tho
board wishes to exhibit the little joker space hereby
offered them in this publication.
Taxes high n Rio county, not through
the action Of the present commissioners but by
which took place and the conditions of
property values the that
OF acts which took place in past years. the Pros
pecor peculiarly well qualified to speak For of all the
unmasked robberies perperated simple folk, the
of Rio Grandes affairs in years gone by is in
class by itself And to return to like condition is
something that the JOURNAL does not favor
For the past three years considerable
provcmcnt been maoen the OF county
but the people called for and the
not to be censured when the fiddler demands his
The work done wa, Of 1s mature and e day
fit rom the money expended.
Brother Conan, fell of on the wrong side Of the
sSr"oi 4-t fal and ever since tn" election he has been
The above is the first apology although feeble one
have seen for the reckless and wicked Of
public money 'road work. expended in Rio Grande
county We have good roads and expect pay for
them Oh yes But if individual attempted his
business along the lines which the pubic business is
conducted he would never last Some Of
the road bills have been known gag those who
the inside
We sdmonished that "the commissioners are
not to IN ccnsurcd when the fiddler demands his pay'
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