The Clayton citizen. [volume] (Clayton, Union County, N.M.) 1906-19??, 1916-08-24

Do you know, Mr.. Taxpayer, what 1t
costs you, according to your own re-
cords, to read the "doin's' of your
county commissioners We mean such
"doin's" as they are willing that you
should read. Well, listen! According |
to a certain record on file in the coun-
ty clerks office, you have paid since
1911, beginning with the year 1912,
S5,O25.67 for just such reading be-
sides paying $9,462.49 for the privi-
lege of learning through your social
ed official organs how often your land
has been sold for taxes etc.
Of the first mentioned sum the En-
glish publication got $3,934.63 while
the Spanish publications got S1,691.O4,
or about half as much as the English
publication. We might pause at this
point long enough to ask the ques-
ton: "Why this difference, since the
matter published is supposed to be
the same?" Of the second aforesaid
sum, the English publication got ST.
941.21, while the Spanish publications
got $1,52.2S, or about three-fourths
as much as the English "oficial or
gan" This is SOME PRIVILEGE
to pay for isn't it? Besides, it is
SOME PRICE to pay for it isn't it?
At the legal rate, what you have
paid for the publication of the com
missioners minutes" alone would oc-
cupy about 408 columns, or about 10
full and complete issues of 8 pages
each Of the English publication. We
90 not vouch for the accuracy of the
record because it is the work Of the
present so-called, democratic admins
tration of Union County. We merely
give it as it appears Of record. II
would seem that these publications
should get about the same amounts
on these items as they are supposed
to be the same items, different only
in language, but out Of the S8,488.lC
paid out for such purposes the Eng
lsh publication gets S2,O63.52 M0RI
than the Spanish publication for 5uf
posedly the same work. Now this b
according to the administrations re
corI and according to the braggadocio
and empty rhetoric, of the "peewit'
"Resolutions" that are destined, in tn
minds Of their variegated few father
and progenitors, to re-elect Wilson
and utterly defeat Hughes, the recor
of the administration, is absolutel,
unassailable and beyond and above re
proach or criticism.
At the legal rate, the publication
of the commissioners minutes" i
Ilily, 1916, would figure up about SIC
VSee, Clayton News, issue July q
l916.-903 lines of 26 ems each at 30
per hundred ems of the type in whic
the matter was set.) If you will eS
anime the issue cited, you will observ
that the commissioners minutes S
published covers much more matte
than usual, for it covers a Road Re
viewers Report, orders establishin
two different roads, an Election Pro
clamation, orders "Re-arranging
Boundary Lines in several precinct
besides the usual number of ALLOW
ances for bills submitted, hence, it
quite above the average Of such maj
ter. But, literally supposing ths
each quarter furnishes this amount
matter, at the legal rate it would hG
ure up about $40 and 4 times $40
$3.50 per year and for four and ha
, years would amount to $126O instea
of s8,33463, or $1,60l.9l, the respe'
tive amounts already alluded to.
Did you notice, Mr.. Taxpayer, ho
careful the Resolutions Committee
"the invisible government" of Unio
County, was to avoid any "indors'
ment" Of the great achiavements'