Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-07-11

county division movement of the ex
governor = and his henchmen are won
dering what has happened. They do
not appear to be pulling together. The
Cooling Herard, it of the Hearst com
plexion, says Lincoln County must be
sliced into three parts in order to save
the struggling taxpayers from the
claws of the GANG. the ANDERSON
lZED GANG, the VULTURES of the
courthouse in SHOSHONE, the GANG
that is waxing rich off the public cof
fers. The county can only be saved
from GRAFT by chopping it up and
letting the good, kind-hearted ex-gov-
srnor WELD the cleaver. 1t wrings the
heart of the ex-governor to see such
goings on, and tenderly sympathetic he
wouldn't for the world hurt anyone;
therefore. he believes an anaesthetic is
the proper thing before the incision.
No more fitting instrument than the
b Herald could possibly be found, for with
a poor circulation it is in no shape to
handle chloroform.
Then along comes one w. G. Bissell
and under what purports to be the sane
ton of the County Division Commit
tee" spreads broadcast few hundred
phamplets under the title: "How One
Half of Your County Current Expense
Fund May Be Saved" The result is a
short circuit. Had the committee stop
ped to think, Mr. Bissell would have
been halted.
. The Herald says the county must be
divided because of GRAFT and EX-
TRAVAGANCE. Mr.. Bissell, how
ever, says:
: 'ln 1911 our expenses went with g
e bang to the almost unbelievable sun
of S72, do 90, and the end was not yet
although every taxpayer of the county
hoped and prayed that taxes would bt
lower; although the county auditor anC
u sheriff laid off deputies, and worked
y their forces overtime, and expenses
were cut to the quick everywhere, ou
county current expenses for the tisca
- year ending April /, 1912, were SS3.
426. 60. -
;. Here we have one champion of tn
e division movement declaring the audito
l. and the sheriff have conscientiousl
striven to cut down expenses, while tn
> Herald proclaims in rivers of red in
= that these same officials are looting tn
n treasury and both argue for tn
!, same thing, three county division.
: two county division, the only fair an
just solution. is to the ex-governo
" what the sight of water is to a ma
/ dag. and in his childish rage he is pei
ir hitting his ''hewers of wood and hau
is ers of water" to make a mess of III
, business and a show of him. Let l
consider futher some of Bissells G
talk:
ut is to the settler, who with Draw
and brain is striving to wrest from II
al deserts grasp home for himself ar
family, to whom each dollar counts. ar
80 who must perforce count the cost th'
ed we make this appeal" (for three count
e. division.)
NJ Since when has Frank Gooding give
consideration to the settler who is tr
ing to "wrest a home from the desert
u" grasp?' Since when has he called in
~ consultation the men and the wont
cr who have made the values around Je
be ONE, Wendell. Hagerman. Barrymor
IA Falls City, Eden and Hillsdale?
He never has, and what is more,
~ never will To him they are me
les pawns on the board to be gethered
gh by his greedy fingers and distributed
he meat for himself and pack. Eve
map originating in Gooding shows
~ Great North Side Tract and the Tw
on Falls Tract tributary" to Gooding; {
ire cry settler who came to ''wrest a hoI
from the deserts grasp" was comp
led to run the gauntlet of lies a
=, calumny against their future hon
y" But they came, and now with milliI
Ing of value builded, wealth they the
ew selves have created, they are told
es stand back while the Gooding pi
.ro feeds. Will our people submit?
L. Through maze of figures submit
by Mr.. Bissel (?l we come to this:
uld space forbids that a detailed hist
. is of every transaction be given, but
ow- 1900 the total county current expe
mas sia Ae5. 80 End
April |, 1912, $S3, 426 60" Then
''' goes no to say: UNLESS relief is
Il forded the taxpayer by means of co
star ty division next years expense
the keep pace, etc" Now arises the az
axe tion, What was the tax cost per go,
,,, for current expense in the years
'''" and 1912? Let us see. In 1900 wit
population of 100 it cost the taxpaS
Sl4. 500, or IS. so each on the head oa