The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-28
REDUCING THE TAXES
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they wrong conspicuous the fact that they nched
and yelled when their acts made public This has little
do with the campaign and make part of the campaign
only far the guilty their friends drag into the que
ton of their votion and when welcome it. There will
be of this subject the proper time and the greatest
prises readers yet to come.
We have always opposed what is known "eevenh-hour
attacks upon candidates for Office and proof of sincerity and
consistency the matter has been furnished the nine months
during which have treated questions of vital at the
polls We have published the facts found them have cited
people the proofs they could easily examine for themselves
and have done early enough the persons affected could
not only have time explain they wished but of
published enough they could mend their mistakes If they
wanted and go before the public this campaign admitting
their errors declaring their purpose to profit by the past and
asking to be given an opportunity to make good his would
have been the natural follow If officers OF the
right type and showing the right spirit but of them have
made their conspicuous by denying what was published fur
nshng proof of what they said charging the publisher with
malice declaring their be right and of the kind they
proposed continue doing and asking be supported their
stubbornness upon their personality
If the county is be operated for the benefit
or plov of the individual officials if the will of representative
citizens expressed after careful consideration be sacrificed
their official PRIDE then reelection of the present mcumben
should be attended to.
1t will be remembered that for several years. pedomnatng
subjects this the protection of Carey projects and
the settlers and reduction of and keen did this become
during the administration of Governor Hawy that the closing
month of it, the people of this county called meeting of
representative citizens from over the county 10 CONSIDER the tax
question.
The mass meeting held Black foot in December, 1912
and agreed by all that had become such burden
that they constituted menace settlement and development of
the country and that unless remedy applied would act
automatically and apply itself by runous process namely: the
decline of property values the raising of of interest greater
difficulty in securing farm oans the market guted with holdings
offered for sale bargains the further decline of prices and the
stagnation of bushes coupled with raising
Resolutions adopted declaring be the of the
meeting that the incoming administration should pursue policy
of renchment hard and rigid and especially applied to
road improvement noted that about thryeven thousand
dollars had been expended roads and bridges during the year,
and that this be severely reduced for the succeeding
their approval 1t noted that much of it tor
steel bridges and there apparent demand tor OF
them and was conceded that in view of these facts would
be down the road and bridge expense for 1913
committee appointed audit the county and
to make report the of high and make
mendatons for their reduction.
The committee made only superficial examination of the
subject and published their report made any
mendaons except say general that there should be retenh
ment in road expenses.
In the face of these expressions of the payers the
mssoners expended fx thousand roads and Bridges
of 81 per the expenses of the year which
the meeting said be incurred again. Taxes Jumped
still higher and for the present year the road and bridge
for months alone have been about equal the entire
expenditures to which the meeting objected
Besides violating the expressed wishes of the constituency
road matters the board and the other officials constituting the
administration have increased the expenses of each department.
has been shown from week week this paper We have gone
into detail in those things showing how applied in the
sor Office the shers Office the prosecuting attorneys office
the office of the school superintendent the probation officer the
district Judge and the county senographe We have shown the
particular and how they compared with the expenses
for similar work preceding years how the board have allowed