The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-10-01
Which Is True /?

Which Is True =?
The frantic appeal made by the Vale
people to keep the county seat at Vale,
lest the town OF Vale will be utterly
ruined and destroyed, is a confession
on the part OF the Vale people that
there is nothing to their town but the
county seat. The Vale paper is full
each issue OF matter written by the
publisher and contributed by the pub
lie arguing against the removal of the
county seat The burden of the song
In these articles is that the removal
OF the county seat from Vale to Ontario
will utterly ruin and destroy Vale"
while" II will be OF but little benefit
TO the town OF Ontario" Now, sup.
pose we should admit that these state
ments are facts. The question is why
are they facts? Why would the re-
moval of the county seat from Vale to
Ontario utterly ruin Vale" And why
would the removal of the county seat
to Ontario help Ontario but little7"
The answer Is plain. The Vale peo-
pie are willing to admit that the is
nothing TO the town OF Vale except the
county seat. They are willing To- ad-
init that people do not go TO that place
except on county business. They are
willing 10 admit that II tho public
was not compelled TO 30 TO Vale on
county business they would not 20
there ut all, They are willing io ad-
init that the assertions that all those
thousands OF acres of land that they
claim are TO be irrigated tributary TO
Vale, IN pure buncombe. They must
admit all these things In order to
utterly ruin and destroy Vale" by
taking the county seat away. II the
public would 40 10 Vale after the
county seat IN removed, and II all the
fertile" acres are to be cultivated
tributary to Vale. after the county seat
IN removed. then how and why will
Vale be utterly ruined and destroyed
by n removal OF the county seat?"
The Vale advocate also argues that
tho removal OF the county seat 10
Ontario "will help Ontario but little"
This too. is perhaps fact, But why
will the removal OF the county seat 10
Ontario help Ontario but littleY The
Vale advocate must admit that the
reason that the removal OF the county
seat to Ontario will help Ontario but
little. In because practically all the
people who are compelled To attend TO
county business at Vale. visit Ontario.
also. and that Ontario therefore gets
the trade and patronage OF almost ali
the people who attend to matters at the
county seat; hence the Vale advocate
has figured II out that the removal
OF the county seat from Vale TO On
ario will utterly ruin and destroy Vale,
aud will help Ontario but little" The
voters and taxpayers of the county |
may have figured II out the same way, |
lut they are not interested In helping |
Ontario or Vale as much as they are |
Interested In helping themselves, Mr. |
Taxpayer thinks Il is unfair 10 COMPEL |
him 10 go TO town to transact his |
county business. unless there IL some
thing TO that town other than the coun-
ty seat. That Is unjust to him as an
and AS a taxpayer to be
compelled To go to one town 10 trans
net his county business, and To another
town TO transact his other business.
Mr. Taxpayer has figured II out that
the gain that Vale has by reason OF
having the county seat is his, Mr., Tax
payers. less. lie has concluded that
since the county seat belongs TO the
people OF the county. and not to any
town, that the people of the county
ought To have their county seat located
" here II is most convenient. and that
Wales loss In loosing the county seat
Is the taxpayers gain,
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