Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-07-10

unless it PAYS somebody? Politc-
ians don't skin the people for fun.
NOT ON YOUR LIFE.
WHO GETS THE $40?
On your bill board, Hon. Pat, you
have some interesting figures. You
say that at an expense of only 500 you
have discovered" 100 acres of timber
worth $1O,SS9. You say that in 1910
this property was valued for assess
ment purposes at SS64. And you sub
tract and get s1O,O35. 4 from 8 leaves
5 alright, 6 from leaves 2, and the
question is, did you add $40 for commits
sion? Does Nease get ii?
HOW ABOUT THE TAXPAYERS?
How does an extra sl152 per town
ship benefit the taxpayers? Why pay
Nease $3.50 per township when the
work could be done for $l72S, or less?
How many acres has Nease person
ally cruised? Hasn't the work been
done by hired men, most of them i'm
ported from Oregon? How do the peo-
pie know these strangers are compe-
tent or more honest than the cruisers
who live in Clearwater county?
Who is checking up the cruise for the
county? Another one of your friends?
Mr.. German? How much is he getting?
Who hired German, and what did the
people have to say about their own
business? About as much as the peo-
pie had to say about the gang deal that
resulted in the appointment of yourself
as county assessor, didn't they? How
do the taxpayers KNOW that Cor
man did not get the job because it
'PAYS" you and Slippery Jim to have
your friends" do the work? You in
sisted on naming the whole bunch,
didn't you, and closed the doors to
competition, and paid the highest price
asked by any one for this cruise, didn't
you, on the ground that your "friends"
alone are honest?
How do the people now know they
have honest, square cruise, and that
you, the 'friend of the dear peepul," :"
are not getting fat wad from some of
the timber companies to fix their valua-
tions lower than they should be? Why
don't you put some Of the Potlatch tim
Der, if you have cruised any, on your
bulletin board? Why do you ALWAYS
tread SO softly on the Weyerhauser tim
ber trust? Why not cruise section of
their best holdings? WAY? WHY?
Why do you and your gang keep
howiing about the county's income and
ignore the outcome? Why not talk
about HOW county funds are spent?
Does it make any difference to the
taxpayers how much money is raised
by taxation if gang squanders it, pay
ing excessive and extravagant prices
for timber cruising, roads, bridges. cul-
verts, typewriters, blank books, print
ing, jail, illegal salary grabs, illegal ex-
pense accounts, ad infinitim?
i Wouldn't it pay the people to STOP
the leaks, cut out graft, and put stop
to reckless extravaganza?
A MONOPOLY ON HONESTY.
Where did you get monopoly or
honesty? How KNOW you and your
gang are the only honest men who
would cruise timber and assess timber
companies justly? How do you know
that everybody who opposes your gang
or objects to your way Of doing count,
business is dishonest, and working
against the interests Of the people,
What have you done in your life t.
justify such clsim? Does honesty rur
in the family, and is your brother jim
afflicted with this virtue?
Did not mob threaten to run jim
Blake, "honest" Jim out of Orofino be
cause Of dirty skulduggery? Didn'
the citizens drive Jim out of Wilbur
WASH, and didn't you flee from mol
down in south Idaho to keep from bein,
strung up for locating suckers on tn
, homesteads of poor settlers? Wer
you then looking after the "dear pee
pull? Did it pay?
Y Didn't you perjur yourself in an out
, rageous attempt to beat an old man ou
t OF his homestead, and didn't the go,
0 ernment, after learning the truth, di.
r miss your contest in disgust over you
: duplicity? Didn't your brother Jim Ii
r to farmer, telling him the compan
who bought his grain was no good whe
r the cash was in the Fidelity bank, an
S didn't the farmer get frightened an
Il sell his receipt to Slippery, Shiny Jir
e at loss of about $50? Isn't this fai
s sample Of Blake honesty?
/. Did you and Slippery Jim honestl
: acquire the tract of land on which yo
e and Jim now live? Didn't you b
e crooked business, force the poor India
8 to accept mere pittance for land yo
d and Jim sold to the 'dear people" fc
d court house at about $500 an acrt
e few acres the Indian thought he we
e reserving for a home?