The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-12-04
THE TAXES
Chapter Fifty

! Chapter Fifty
Prospects for reducing the become encouraging
the work of anayzng the expenditures continues Our former
that be 2s per this county appear
now have been low and likely that within the coming
administration they be down greater percentage than
that Last week showed where large printing bills should be
about per place the work equality with ordinary
commercial work of similar character but of the legislature
will be necessary make In this chapter show
other printing expenses that be 80 per from practice
of the present and past by simply complying with present laws
but breaking old that have legitimate
for existence.
Competitor WiH "IHoHer'
One of competitors will make his usual howl about our
destroying printing business and he will say doing it att
this time because getting the business But this all
bnkum and everybody knows it when they remember that
printing will be made month"; and The Idaho Repub
can should stand good chance of getting the business
anyone We think the best Evidence of sincerity in attacking
the printing graft the close of the during which have
had the business and the time when hope get it
again. the fact that attack the time when would cut
surely competitors We have announced
that would show the and graft the public printing and
that will also show how avoid the graft and large that
being asted Canvass the following and Judge whether we
are making good:
So long the county debt its warrants will be sold toI
somebody who has money They buy the for
the profits that be made the interest discounts BOTH
In this county they sell par and the of interest peri
In this county they sell at par and the rate OF interest perl
the county treasury they issued but when once
they sold and become scattered necessary call them
again when there money redeem them This legal pro
ceedu that necessary be taken stop the interest charges
against them when the money deposited for their payment It'll
done in what known Warrant Call published by the
treasurer newspaper the county 1t describes the war
by number and date of ISSUE and the notice consists chiefly
of figures and dates with statement appended showing when
and where they will be redeemed presentation The treasurer
usually knows where of the and if he sent
list each of the few persons who deal in them he would usually
get them all called but the law that of them may
be anybod hands, and publication of the notice in some public
certain and they may we'll present them and receive
their face value with accrued interest to that date One pubca
ton satisfies the legal requirement but has been the custom o
have the call published week for about sixty days
and county pays the publisher the legal for unless there
lis modifying and fixing other price If such al
notice makes inches and this about average the legal
would be dollars the first time and five dollars week
thereafter That would make the total of publication $780,
Tor $40 more than required by law. Fifty dollars five times
much needs and reduce from $50 to $40 would
be reduce the expense 80 per cent If done under con-
price that is lower than the legal the saved by
making only publication, would not be great dollars and
cents the percentage of reduction would still be the
less the number of publications varied Sometimes they
published only eight and then the waste less
Is There a Reason for it?
Whenever there custom there is usually for
it. and investigations covering months and our obser
vations covering some years, show this:
There advantage the county to have than one
publication The usually has slips printed from the
notice when the first publication made and he mails them to all
to be dealers III county
observe the date when interest stops and present them when
them BEST regardless Of repetition Of the notices the paper
for succeeding weeks
This is the Reason for Repeating
When settlement began in this state desirable have
newspapers and wanting to encourage sabshmg
paper would sometimes bonus for it Sometimes county
would be asked encourage such enterprise
way they found of doing for officials to be liberal n
patronzng the publisher with all legal notices which might re-
qure publishing posting If they wanted to help keep the
newspaper operation they would publish everything they could
and the call Of the things they could find ready
for publishing durng the of the call and gave
some relief to the publisher and the people paid the BILL
Bonus Groscs Into Graft
Whenever the county officials give money to publisher for
the stated above their should be changed whenever
such newspaper gets into position to maintain itself without
such aid