The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-02-22


Tertiary for it, While he was in
prison, his successor was stealing
right along from the public treasury
matters recently, found that his
thefts had been outlawed year age
and they could not indict him. They
found, tho, that he had been caught
and made to tally most or all of the
money before quitting his office, and
that brings up the question whether
others were implicated and thereby
made to be mild about the matter.
The grand jury indicted former
assessor and he will come to trial in
May, the word being passed out mean
time, that it is clear case of plan
ming carefully every step in the en-
J bezzlements of a considerable
period.
Twin Falls has had scandal in
/ city and county affairs and some Of
ficials are under the ban, with re-
ports not all in yet, two newspapers
seeking to cover up and one news
paper seeking to uncover and call a
spade spade.
At American Falls (notice they
are all Falls towns,) the county
clerk, who retired in January, is said
to be short about $4,000 of various
kinds and brands of public funds,
and people are wondering what he
did with it. They account for his re-
ceiving $4,000 in four years, in
Guiding his salary, and he is broke
now and looking them all in the face
and assuring them that everything is
all right, excepting that he has not
the money right at hand. He has
been a prominent church worker,
good lodge man, a good sportsman
and good fellow, and still keeps up
good front and is ready for trial.
All the banks in the county are
broke, the county funds are tied up
in the failure, the school funds are
tied up in vacuum for the city and
the country districts of the county,
and there are a lot of surety bonds
missing from the vaults at the court
house. The accused man blames the
banks for part of the trouble and
the banks are not saying anything,
pending the reports of the examin
ers. The local newspaper, COM
bination of all the former news
papers of the county, has been out
spoken for a year in telling the
people what was wrong in public Of
flee insofar as the editor could probe
matters, and now a good many peo-
pie are blaming the editor for bring
ing about a lack of confidence that
shook things up at time when
shake-up was bad for the community.
In the meantime it might not be
will end, and He isn't telling u.s.
Bingham county had its shake-up
five, eight and nine years ago, and
SOLDERING influence was thrown into
public administration A newspaper
mans audit started lot of trouble,
and expert accountants finished it, |
For several years, people and Of |
ficials have been agreed that an
audit should be made at least every
two years, by auditors who are not |
interested and living in the county, |
and their reports are getting to be |
better and better each year. City
and county warrants are backed by
cash and surety bonds that are in
place and not missing All the |
banks in the county started in three
years ago to make the well-to-do
fellows clean up their obligations so
that when the pinch should come
there would be stability to the
banks.
Three years ago, America had
so much money it looked as if we
should go on rolling in wealth, but
people are rolling in other things
now. We are all disposed to keep
asking the question, Where has all
he money gomez" But down in our
hearts we know where most of the
rouble is-we were doing a big
actual cash for, and since business
md credit slowed down good many
people carry their cash in their
clothes instead of keeping it on de-
Dosit in the banks, and in that way
hey make hard times harder. They
etire the money from the channels
# business as completely as if it did ,
lot exist. Money kept in a sock is ,
Exactly the equivalent of money ,
aiken out of existence. When it ,
ONES out of the sock and is put into i.
he channels of trade by circulating
or by placing it on deposit in a
ank, it is the same as making that {
1uch money-the same as making
remedy for hard times to the ex-
ent of several times the amount of :
ash so placed in the channels of
rade. The people control about
alf of the strength or weakness of
he banks, and in the degree that
hey increase bank deposits, they
ure hard times and make banks
afer and thereby insure the con-
nuance of their schools and other
ublic service and public necessities.
very dollar that is taken out of its
iding place now and placed in the
anks, adds to the security of all and
, the certainty that the schools shall
0 on without embarrassment We,
lie people, control more than we
link we do, because there are so