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*HB FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
KING A CRONIN, Editom.
BONDS Ok NOIBONDS?
On Friday, the flrat day of March, the
people of Holt county will decide by
their ballota whether or not the county
ahalllaaue bonda for 100,000 for pur
poaea and under auoh reatnctlona aa are
embodied In the law authoring the
taaue of bonda for relief of deatitute
farmera.
Tnn FttOHTOH considers this propo
u iltion far from just or equitable. Il
‘ taxea the whole people of the eountr foi
the benefit of a few. It la elaaa legisla
tion : only inch persona aa are engaged
In agriculture being entitled to benefit,
the poor of the towna who are equally
deserving will reoelve no direct benefit
from the aale of auch bonda If iaaued.
Other residents of the towna who are
not destitute, but heavy tax payera, will
be called upon to pay their share of the
taxes, while directly they will receive no
‘benefit. The farmer who baa seed and
feed must pay an increase In taxes to
assist his neighbor who has none. No
provision is made to reimburse the men
who pay the taxea. If every
man’a note Is paid when due—which
will not be the caae, as no security
more than a personal note is required by
• the oounty board—there la no provis
ion that the proceeds may be applied to
-v‘the redemption of the bonds. The
amount must be raised by taxation of
the whole people, while the amount rea
lised from the sale of the grains will go
Into the treasury and benefit the man
whb has received aid as well as the man
who hu not.
And then again the leu provides that
the man who has no sesd or feed may
receive aid by making the proper ehow
' lbg. The law says nothing of his ability
to borrow the necessary funds. All
that he needs la to be without grain or
money. If he has security upon which
he could borrow a thousand dollars it
makes no difference.
The farmer who would plant a small
acreage In any other event mar now
'Plaat without limit. He is in no way
• circumscribed.
The opportunity for fraud is una
bridged.
For there reasons and others not emi
montod Thb Frontwh ii;i the law li
' neither “Just nor .equitable." But (or all
that, we realise that something must be
done and It no better plan la presented
we favor the laauanoe of the bonde. In
tfhie we consider that We are magnani
The very elaaa that will receive
the benefit of theae bonds but a ahort
time ago frowned down a proposition to
bond for Irrigation purposes, for the rea
eon that they thought the taxation would
not be distributed in proportion to the
derived. It ted waded
feeeeteddttherstoeuUaowteao oo
•'•adriaa to bead rot aid. leery able
‘'■’USttba Man it the coualy would have
had g winter'll-week o* the ditch, and at
**|et#”teldet Bit this le no ttee for
*"reeehtment, neither la It a time to repay
ehort-slghtedasas with short-sightedness.
Tho time Jor planting will soon be
hare and It I the duty of all to consider
this proposition impartially and vote for
the greatest good to the greatest num
‘her.
Oharity la twice blessed; it bleeseth
him that gives and him that takes.
" Via barbers who are on' Kantaman’s
""String" may properly be said to be
Sam-strung.
Tn Jew’s dialogue between “Clide
and Me" was quite Shakeaperian. It
•"was a comedy of errors.
Tnn populist mice nibble voraciously
at tho cheese of publlo funds. A taste
of patronage often proves a- dangerous
thing. __ |a| __
* Bomb time last fall the Bmudge an
• nounoed its intention of cleaning out
“the state house ring." When does
' the Jew propose to march on their
• works? _ _ _
Fmox the present outlook we predict
j that the bonds will carry. The men
..who see an opportunity to get some
thing for nothing are not occupying the
back seats theM times.
Wheh a small body of men met out
’ fa'Shields the other night and where
aaed that they are destitute and minus
the wherewithal to buy seed grain when
It wonld have been Just aa fair and a
great deal le*a burdenaome for the state
to have furolabed ahl to Ha deatitute
farmera laatead of requiring the coun
tleatodoit. It would be committing a
little wrong tg do a great good.
Gbbat head that engineered the reso
lution out in Shields, which was to the
effect that every man who signed the
petition requesting Robertson to resign
should be boycotted. This resolution
followed one asking the people of the
county to vote bonds for aid.
--
That prince of fakes, the Jew, in his
last disgorgement of congested ideas
attempts to aay that a plan was laid last
week to mob Roy. We cannot believe
that it was anything more serious than
a party of "friends"—perhaps bonds
men—organized to “spirit him away.”
WnAT’s the matter with the illegal
legal committee being required to fur
nish an itemized statement of their
receipts and disbursements. Not only
moneys received and disbursed, but from
whom receive^ and for what expended.
There is altogether too much star-cham
ber business connected with the work
ings of this committee. The people
have a right to be on the inside of this
matter, and the board has no right to
keep them in the dark.
Mike Uabrington lias filed a bill for
1200 for prosecuting Barrett Scott at his
trial at Nciigh. Judge Robinson certi
fies that the bill is a reasonable one, and
therefore it will have to be paid. If this
fee is all that Harrington has ever
[ received for this same work it would
not be so outrageously exorbitant, but
we opine that if the inside workings of
that legal committee were spread out to
public inspection it would be found that
he has had his fine Italian band in for a
liberal grab.
The amount of money lost to the state
and counties under the depository law
exceeds <450,000. This paper believes
now, as It believed at the time the law
was passed, that It Is not a good meas
ure. The county money—if it must be
loaned—might lust as well* bv loaned
directly to the people as to the banks
and by the banks to the borrowing class.
If the public money is to be employed
for speculative purposes we can see no
reason for dividing the profits with the
“bloated capitalists.”
In looking over bills filed fol 1894 The
Frontier ascertains that County Attor
ney Murphy is charging the county up
with office rent at the rate of $10 per
month. Also that the county is buying
his coal. And this is reform. We
await for time to disclose that other offi
cials are charging the county up with
house rent and fuel. The supervisors
ought not be so far behind in the proces
sion; they surely are entitled to as many
perquisites as Mr. Murphy. Oh I suffer
ing Holt, when will thy sorrows cease f
The Jew last week clipped a para
graph from The Frontier, date of Feb
ruary 7, and tacked It onto another arti
cle, date of July 5, ’94, attempting to
make it appear that that the paragraph
of February 7 referred to the article of
July 5. It is hardly necessary to com
ment on this kind of journalism. Any
man who will resort to such under
handed methods Is eertalnly a disgrace
to the profession. In fact, he is not a
journalist, he is a bushwhacking
copper-head. A point gained by decep
tion seldom malts In lasting advantage.
Kvoa popmhst readers win in time resent
being imposed open eoatlanaily. •
Tm oom of the county against Durr
hM finally roochod ■ termination. 'Mr.
Darr y«ys tho oonnty NOb. It will be
rMMkint that Hit Uni or four
years ago when the pope were possess
ed with an investigation devil a little
bird whispered to them that Mr. Darr’s
books, as county treasurer, might offer
a little sport it the brush were properly
beaten, so they expet ted them and to
make it appear that time so employed
was not utterly thrown away they found
him short WOO. But Mr. Darr, who is
somewhat of a flgurer himself, turned
bsck the musty pages of his old ledger
and decided that the county was in*
debted to him in the sum of $400 and
secured judgment for that amount. The
way the case now stands he is $100
ahead on the deal. His gain is the
county’s loss, of course, and besides,
there are all of the costs, which Mr.
Jones will liquidate. It doesn’t always
pay for reformers to be too officious.
It hat be a little wicked to see any
thing humorous in the death of an old
soldier, but there is 41 vague degree of
satisfaction in learning that the old vet
erans of the war for the preservation of
the Union got the start of Hoke Smith’s
pension department as it is at present
conducted, even though they had to die
to do it. Two weeks ago Dr. R. M. De
Witt, an old soldier, died at his home in
Dee Moines, Iowa. For the last two
years of his life he was confined to his
bed by disabilities incurred during the
war. He was buried by his old com
rades with all the honors he had so dear
ly sjon. Seven days after the burial his
family received a notice from Hoke
Smith saying his case had been investi
gated by the department and it was
learned that he was not incapacitated
fsona sssawsi labor, and therefore bi|
pension was rad need to eight dollars pe
month. What a ooaamentary on ou
govarnmaat as admlaiatrreil by this ma
Hoke iSmlth! Dying after being tw
•mart in Knot ^IbrnnaMmntlju," „1,a»
years in hod, “lavnamgatloo” showed b
was not IbMPacftjMaC It k a little grat
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O’NEILLBUSINESS DIRECTORY
R. DICKSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reference First National Bank
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FASHIONABLE BARBER.
DEALER IN OIQARS, ETO.
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