The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-04-15
FALSE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS BY
INDEPENDENT ORGAN WILL TW|NvOTES
PAVING AND MANY IMPROVEMENTS PAID FOR DUR.
ING CURRENT TON TO REGULAR RUNNING
EXPENSES OF

Any newspaper that delDeralelS
misstates facts and figures for the
purpose of deeeiving and misleading
its readers on any question, and par
tlcularly upon a question that involves
the control of the government under
which they live, is deserving Of ana
will receive the contempt of all honest
men. On April the Press-Times, the
snecial advocate of the Walker Ma
honey McKissick Independent ticket
contained an editorial from which this
paragraph is taken:
"In that ten months lending Febru-
arv 2s) the city administration, TINS
body which is now preaching economy
and retrenchment, and protection OF
the interests of the taxpayers, collecl-
cd and spent $50, 5e512. This Is hVe-
sixths of a year and the ratio MAIN
tanned would make the total expenses
for the year over 100000, an increase
of over seven thousand dollars over
the wear before And this does not IN
cude any expense connected with the
paying"
Assuming that the amount collected
and spent as above given Is correct
how can any sane and honest man ar
rive at the conclusion that the income
the last two months of the hscai yeai
will be in the same proportion as 9he
receipts for the preceding ten mohthS
Tn the same article, referring to the
reoeints for the fiscal year endlns
April 30, 1914 it is stated that $So'oo'
of the total receipts came from prop
artv tax and the balance from mes
Licensees. etc. How much can De eA-
,actad from those sources between the
loot of Fahruarv and April 80? frac-
tically nothing and the writer OF ti'e
article knows 1t, and yet ne oelipei
otelv attempts to mislead his readers
info believing that $4,000 will be col
,aotad and spent by the council de.hne
that time, and swelling the total re
ceipts and expenditures for the year u
$50 oOO At the beginning OF @ch
fiscal year appropriations are maze TOT
the various purposes based upon thf
probable income from all sources 'o'
env one at all informed upon municirN
business procedure knows that as the
fiscal wear draws to close all luiloS
have heen collected from the nam
sources Of revenue, taxes ana lceiSeS
and generally spent in accordance WIN
the appropriation ordinance. Inc I'M
nlication that one sixth OF the rev
opuas Of the city remains to be collect
ed and spent during the last TWO
months of the fiscal year cannot be at
tr,buted to ignorance, and m.'S'
therefore be malicious attempt 70
docaive the voters as to the manner
in which the present administration }
handling the public funds,
a Deliberately False Statement
We take for granted that the tiguf IS
above quoted showing the amount col
lected and spent by the city during the
ten months ending February ZS are
correct, not having verified them lr"Ih
the records. The Press-Times says
this does not include any expenses
connected with the paving" simply
for running the city"
If the man who penned the above
paragraph had been prompted by an
honest purpose when he examined the
citv records to obtain the figures hf
quotes, he would have found com
plete refutation of the assertion just
ouoted He would have found that
during those ten months city warrants
were drawn and paid aggregatlng
$9,274.69 In payment for paving street
intersections, engineering work III
connection with paving and for adVer-
tisine in the Press Times in connec-
tion with paving the streets. Thus the
books and files of the Press-Times IT.
self will prove the assertion to be ap-
solutely false.
Again an honest examination of the
cIty records would have shown the i'm
ported hireling of the Press-Ttmes
that the splendid concrete retaining
wall along the river was largely paid
for out Of the receipts for the curren'
fiscal year, as was also the concrete
retaining wall on High street. These
are costly improvements but they are
permanent and will stand for all time
and we venture the assertion that IN"
city built them for less money than
any similar work was ever done in this
section. These improvements VIII
stand as a lasting credit to the admin
istation that built them.
While we fully realize and appre-
ciate the Importance Of the man be-
hind the pay check, we deny the good
citizenship of the man who uses IT t.
control other mems votes. The his
tory of other communities where such
misuse Of power has prevailed should
be a sufficient warning, and 1t is hoped
that such system will not be sub
mtted to by the people of Wallace.
mans obligation to his employer
consists solely in the faithful perform