The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-03-04
ROAD BONDS AND so FORTH

Editor Pilot: | will again ask you
! to give me space in the columns of
| your paper First of all to thank you
for publishing my article of Jan. 20,
against the bond issue, and also pub
fishing the other two good articles on
the same question, which | considered
better than my own, even though the
writers may be entire strangers to me; ;
| but | hope to make their acquaintance
some day | also wish to thank the
writer from Cato or Taus, or wher-
ever he may "hale from" and the
writer from Marbel in last weeks
Pilot for thinking / would make a
| good chairman for Maple Grove. also
have been requested by half dozen
of my loyal townsmen to become
candidate for chairman this spring.
They say the present chairman has out
| lived his usefulness since he became
| one of the state road and bridge com
| mittee members and has been going to
a road school at Madison this winter
| did not write that article to gain pop
ularity as politician nor to gain pop
ularity in any other way. But it meant
from $1,000 to $1,000 of my hard
earned money scattered broadcast on
the road for the sporty big bugs with
their big $4,000 and $4,000 touring
cars say if you want to pull Mani
towoc county out of the mud raise
100000 and spend it in crawling
your roads, allowing so much to each
township. Then home men and home
taxpayers will get the jobs and all
money stays in our county Those
cement manufacturers don't pay any
taxes in this county. Did you see how
cement went up in price? l had set
April 10, 1920 for that 20 per cent
raise in my previous article, but it
| raised sooner and watch for more of a
raise.
Those counties that got roped in like
we nearly did must feel cheap over this
cement situation. That Sl.S9 gag"
nearly got the elephant trunk around
our necks-a lie is always found out.
Don't you know, fellow readers, | hate
fellow ! catch in a lie as bad as |
hate the devil and will never trust him
again afterwards. | am most sure
there are many will bear me out on
| those statements. 1--WE have met the
enemy and they are ours" We have
won; but let me tell you it would cost
closer to S3 on your present valuation
of $1,000 than Sl.S9 on $1,000 valua-
ton twenty years from now.
They were figuring on Imagination
and were predicting on our valuation
being S5O,OO0,OO0 more in 1888 than
the present value of $4,000, 900 today.
| But they didn't figure the 81 40 they
claimed it was costing us now at 1888
valuations they figured that at present
valuation and there is where they mis-
led the people.
Friends and fellow taxpayers, | say
to you as the writer from Married. has
said, don't send any man to represent
you on the county board who has con-
crete on the brain. Send a blockhead,
or even cabbage-head; but for the
sake of your pocket-book, which is
near and dear to you at the present
| time, don't send concrete head as
chairman, or another special election
will be called costing us taxpayers
from $4,000 to $4,000 again like the
| last one did. Those officers like to get
those special elections and registration
days; easy money for them. We are
sick and tired of such unnecessary ex-
pense. If the ones that introduce those
| resolutions and vote for them had to
pay half of the expense they wouldn't
| he so anxious to introduce resolutions
| gotten up and drafted down at Madi-
| son; that is where all the figuring is
| done and their lieutenants out here
try to slip them over on us poor suck
| erS.
f. A. Friedrich, who introduced this
| resolution for the bond issue and also
named the day of the special election
in the county, when questioned and
croSs-examined on the morning of the
election said no one will know how |
vote on this issue-for it, or against it.
| What do you think of that for a public
| official, in view of the fact that he was
the very one that brought the reSolu-
| ton before our county board. He evil
IDENTIFY saw the handwriting on the
wall and acted like the ground hog did
this year, after giving us the first two
weeks of February very fine weather
turned around and sneaked back into
his den, and consequently we have had
a cold spell since.
And as for the market question as
| our friend from Married. said, the assoc
citation of commerce ought to look into
that for the farmers sake if they love
them so well. Ed. Reinneman, grain
dealer here at Reedsyille, paid last
week for oats 90 cents, barley $l4S,
rye $3.50 per bushel and sold corn to
farmers at $l.4s per bushel, bran $3.50