Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-01-30
WANT
ALL THE FACTS


fino Wednesday. He informed the
Republican editor that the farmers are
becoming generally aroused over Clear
water county affairs, and that, re-
CARELESS of party politics, the taxpay-
ers are going to know all the facts.
MIR. Plank says the people are not salts
fled with the refusal OF the county Of
ficials to come out openly and meet the
charges made by the Republican, and
that nobody is gong to be satisfied
with personal abuse or persistent in
difference. ''lf the Republican is
wrong the people are going to know it,
and if the Republican is correct the
people are going to know that. The
people do not care anything about who
the editor Of the Republican is. All
they want is the facts about their
county business. The more the county
officials ignore the charges made by the
Republican the more the taxpayers will
believe that the charges are true," he
said.
Scores Of farmers have expressed the
same opinion in the presence Of the
editor Of the Republican, and many
have written the Republican to this
effect. There seems to be a county
wide demand for the truth, and the
Republican is urged to continue the
work it has started. Mondays mail
brought club of five new subscribers,
with check for IS, from Teakean, with
the statement: 81 do not desire the
extra subscription you advertise for
the amount enclosed. Keep it for the
good work you are doing, and we will
get you more subscribers at the regu-
lar rate"
The same expression comes from
Welppe and Pierce, where, in one
mail, eight new cash subscriptions
were sent to the Republican, and the
editor urged to keep up the fight for
clean county government. One Of
these letters follows:
Weippe, Idaho, Jan. %, 1914.
Editor Clearwater Experimentation
Sir: AS taxpayer Of Clearwater
county let me say most heartily APP
prove Of your editorials on the gangs
methods Of handling county affairs. l
wish to call your attention to some of
our county treasurer's methods he is
pleased to call System" received
tax notice, as did many of my neigh
bors that have talked with, and defy
any accountant in the state to tell how
he ever arrived at the results that
were on that statement. What would
like to know is who has better right
to know how these results are obtained
than the man or woman who pays the
taxes. 1t appears that he takes it for
granted that the people who pay the
taxes are not competent to figure out
their own taxes, SO we have Mr.. Blake
to import some one to do it for us.
Now there is another matter that
wish to call to the attention OF the tax
payers of Clearwater county and of the
state, relative to this bonding business.
Why don't we break away from this
credit system, and do away with laws
that were instigated by corporation
lawyers? Why don't we have laws
spread on our statute books, granting
the right to our county commissioners,
through the vote Of the people, to start
sinking funds for any and all public
purposes, where any great sum Of
money is called for? Then We would
not be paying two dollars for every
one used, as under the present system.
Under the new way, as soon as our
taxes are paid the money would COM
mence drawing interest, payable to the
people, instead Of the people paying
interest to bankers. If this system had
been in vogue at the time Clearwater
county was formed we might have
had an abundance Of money to have
built all the public buildings necessary
for present purposes, and some time to
come on levy Of mills on the dollar
We should have at this present time
on hand something like fifty thousand
in our treasury. At the time this
county was formed we know that
sooner or later we must have public
buildings. Why didn't we start this
sinking fund? This law should relate
to all public purposes. Taxpayer.
Taxpayer" raises question Of
vital Importance to the people, not only
of Clearwater, but of the entire state,
and one that has been repeatedly raised
by all classes Of thinking people. Latah
county is out of debt 1t needs court
house. The people want a court house
But the people are opposed to paying
interest for twenty or ten or any length
Of years when they are able to pay cash
or within two or three years time at the
most. Yet the law says they canno
proceed in business-like way to d.
the thing the people want to do in tn,
way good business sense would die
tate, The law relative to bonds is ;