Year: 1874

TO answer all the willful lies perpetratcd
by Placer county ring g-monopoly tool wou.d
be bigger task than we are disposed to
undertake; but we feel it our duty, however
disagreeable, 10 notice the most fragrant.
Week after week we have pinned the pigmy
down, first on one thing and then on another,
but stiIl it persists, until we are led to be-
leve that the supercous noodle who runs
that institution is all lies. And ,as notorious
liars always do, he attempts to give his own
story IA phase Of truth, by asserting thai
those who contradict him are liars. For in.
stance, he wants the people TO believe that


we are the liar, in hopes that they will be-
lieve that he tells the truth. TO this end he
says of us, "His inbred disposition to lie il
such that no one can depend on any state


ment he makes" That is indeed rich. II
is pity for him that among all his lies lh,


al owe is one of the biggest. II he could
only persuade himself that lis readers would
believe half of the above he would have u
nice thing; he could then impose on them to
his hearts content. But. the ignorant tool
mistakes his host when he breaches thus to
the intelligence of Placer county. 1t is use.
less for us to tell him that his mendacty is
well understood by those who, were he
anything but jackass, would be his friends /;
that his malicious accusations are disgusting
to every decent man; but for us to know
that such is the case is enough, and were we
the spteiul being he represents us to be, n
knowledge of this fact would induce us to
aggravate him to renewed efforts. The poor
depraved being, SO full of vile prejndces
that his heart, one would Judge, is sink Of
~ickedness, cannot speak of the Supervisors
wiinont slanderiny them, simply because
they do not all happen to be Republicans;
and to slander, lie is compelled 10 lie. He
asserts that we worked all the week they
were in session in conjunction with The In.
dependent members in trying to invent plan
to swinde the lowest bidder out of the print
ing. Every word of which is IA lie, as we
never either in private or public spoke to one
Of til, Supervisors on the subject. excep, to
briefly reply TO some questions they asked
regarding our bid. But to cap the climax in
the way Of mendaci'y the tool says: "This
nice little game TO swindle the county was
frustrated by the motion Of a Republican
member TO call on the county officers for Il
complete estimate Of the blanks wanted" +"
We do not know where the attempt to
swind!e comes in, nor do we know that any
game was frustrated, but We do know that
the tool lies when it says that the motion to
have the county officers furnish list Of the
blanks required. was made by Republican,
unless he calls our worthy Supervisor Barrett,
n Republican; for we do kno,o that it wal.
MIR. Barrett who made the said notion


He had to iell this lie though to make the
rest Of his story hang together. He had
lyinsly asserted that the Independents were
trying to swindle; and if he had, after thus
far lying, told the truth and said the game
was frustrated by tho motion Of an Independ-
cnt, he would have thus knocked his own
tat in the fire. But such is the fate Of liars.
they tell lie, and have to keep on lying to
avoid self conviction. But then, what IL the