Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-03-01
STILL PULLING Lee OF
THE deer PEEPUl. v

ht Utth PttfUl.
In county where the people ere
accustomeo % think of graft in terms
of five figur, = like the Nease cruise,
little matter like $3.50 month or
SIS year, does seem almost too
small to consider and particularly
for newspaper like the Orofino
Tribune, that champion of the deer
peepul!" But of course the war has
humbled many Il mighty one, and
made the high and naughty eat
war mixtures and drink immitation
coffee. Early in the war Brother
Crow began sending out distress sig
nails. inviting the neighbors to bring
in a few cold biscuits, canned beans,
or few turnips. all Of which the
| Tribune editor intimated he would
| cheerfully accept and publicly ac
knowledge in his great family jour
nal. Brother Crow has had long ex-
perience with frail and erring hu
manity, and knew only too well that
vanity doth make fools of most of
us; he knew that most any flesh and
blood man or woman will fail for
anything to get their name in the
paper, and that 1t would bring hoine
the bacon for the lean and famished
| editor of once great and prosper
Gus publisher, who waxed fat at the
public crib, and harpooned the taH
payers for 81 line when the pick
ing was good.
| Habit is d powerful master. and
once the taste is acquired, it is hard
for stall fed editors to let go the
teat. and a little pap is probably
! haf har of sl ish
brings us to our story.
About a year ago !. R. Grow, the
friend of the deer peepul," moved
his paper into Jim Blake's building
near the post Office. Now Jim had
not tapped the village water SO
there was no faucet on the premises,
and Brother Grow soon tired of
supplying his needs from the rain
barrel or the river. Therefore he
secuted around and located tap at
the public watering trough at the
| Horswill barn block away and for
twelve months, or thereabout. l. r.
Grow has supplied his needs for the
cooking, bathing, laundry, and the
Orofino Tribune needs from this free
tap, saving measly $1.50 month,
or SIS for the year. 1t is not much,
but for one who has enjoyed a mo-
nopoly of village printing, and who
was paid several hundred dollars for
printing the paving ordinances, and
who even now gets 80 per cent of
the village printing, it looks like it
is rather raw to horn free water
from a village that is head over
heels is debt, and facing a scandal
and loss of credit because of default
in payment of its paving warrants.
If we are rightly informed. there is
money to raise to meet water bond
, interest, etc. Who is l. r. Crow that
: he should, then enjoy the benefits
, of fire protection for his property
, pure water for cooking and other
, domestic purposes, all free, while tn
r other citizens of Orofno carry the
burden?
! 1t is, to be plain, petty, measly
5 graft, and shows that the OrofinC
e Tribune, that l. r. Crow. its pub
: Usher, will pull the public leg fol
e anything from $65,000 Nease
guess to the water for l. R. Crows
e coffee; that this gang is no sooner
f Jared lose from one graft than they
0 are found extracting the peoples
r substance in another.
But isn't it the limit and doesn't
it disgrace the profession, to find tn;
k editor of Jim Blake's paper riding
S on free pass for village water tt
e save a measly $3.50 per month? Ant
e yet it amounts to SIS per year, ant
:. that will help some
e Were ]. r. Grow just an ordinar!
Il mortal it would not be SO bad; bu
Il here is an unprincipled old pup whit
:. talks reform" and has never ceaset
To Inf hn Gy,o Of nynl
4 just criticism at others. He has liet
e about his fellow citizens withou
L shame or decency: he has brande,
= most honorable and upright mel
O and women in the county as thieves
e crooks. grafters. criminals, etc, an,
e then had the immaculate gall an
d unadulterated nerve to talk reform
l. with the one hand and graft tn
T. people to the limit with the other
II But his own grating is not hi
Y worst offense; the crime of crime
81 chargeable to l. r. Crow and his pa
is per is such monstrous outrages a
,e the Nease cruise. the grating of in
Is terest on county funds, the Swinto
a deal. and others, wherein the peopl
of Clearwater county were skinne
and the Tribune approved pawn
the way by deceiving the peopl,
and defended and supported thos
- who did the grating.
= Their game exposed their gan
defeated, and the poor old Tribun
" abandoned to its fate and starvin,
- dire necessity may make some diae
~ ence, and free village water a sleI
=. der thread that holds body togetht
sa and keeps the wolf from enterin
h the Tribune sanctum But even
y that we can't see why the rest of ,
y. should be taxed while Jim Blake
q. q, paper and it's editor are pensiont
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