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The meanest man Inans communi ty is the one who de always arriving to engend ratrife emougat hla fellow citizens. Demagogue and anarchist are the teres usualy applied to sada cranks amLeva coors. ‘The avenue to array the country people against the city people frat now is an effort in this one, ‘The proprity of Madison and Jeffraon Corny is identical. Their inter s 9 are common; there late ust be a alular one, the assertion that the country peo ple have never borne any burdens of the Guy 1g act austined by rheties. ‘The appropriaion at F10000 in ourd cish to visit in securing the Eagle Cotton Mill by the county is an illus tration in part. The main difference betwween the Courts Comntasionera and the Dry Courend is that the former are more careful to protect the tax payers in terest than the chatter. Hence the county inout of debt that the city is well deep in the financial quagmire. —[Courier, Our esteemed friend, the editor of the Ring Organ, must have had an other vision in the blaoty shirt closet, but instead of dreaming of the war las slumbera were disturbed by vis ions of Demagogues and Anarchists.” We are sorry fue him ta take the who feyeth with the sour mash, his case is hopeless, uices he swears off and keeps hia swear. Even the hely brecarity of gold variely will not avail him otherwise. Now the Courrier says some one in trying to array the city and country people against each other, and it alae auvs that terre proaperity ere one and that the county bies borne Its share of the burdens of the expenses and points to the stock subscribed by the Jo'ton Mill. The answer to all this is plain: The Courier means that some one to be the Democrat, burr aint got the manliness to say so. We have never tried to array the one against the other. The Democrat has fought in the interval of every Manufacturing or other valuable id entilation in our city or county, and noathly the ship Yard which is lo cated in the county outside of the city. This destinution the Courier never raised a band to place in its pres ent econdisios until after success was ogained, Courier or no Courier. The Desocrat was the first to go to the expense of accnting all the De Ser- Hers” meetings in the county and re porting them in tall, sad establish ing Correapmiderts at almost every post offie soon to represent the cour ty as fully as posible. The Courier finally followed our examJe to a very limited extent, and because they were forced to it by public sentiment in the country. But this is personal and unintrusting. Let us eco how the Couriers lame argument stands. The Cover points to the $10,000 stock taken by the county In the Cotton Mr. Well so did the site. Tima the city pays alother FIC,000 and her share of the county, and yet the county gets the hirhest share of the taxes, because the counnty rate has al ways been higher than that of the city. But so did individuals make stock, and while it was pactly through good will towards the envy, it was largely as a financial investment that they put their money twat.The individ uals were nearly all from the city. As stockholders they were all in the same box with the county. They ex pected to rego returns or they would never have put their money therin. How much Money was raised in the county outside of the city to store the Silver Plate works, we ask? And yet had it proved what was expected of the county would have got hee ehoure of taxation on the concern. Tne hip-yard wis a square donation, and wi hert the prospects of one cent ever coming back to the city, government for it, the county reaping the benefit of all taxation. But we might go on adfinittum and the same story would be told throughout. The Democrat is interested in both cicy and cansty, and has to pay taxes for the support of hurrh Woe want vool feeling to prevail, but we don't want inequality to prevail cant epecially when that dat equality is no bed for political effet ation. One inequality that exists is the electing of all three county commis sioners from the paral dietricts Madi son and tia suburbs contains more people than the remainder of the counts, wn L hence should bs repre sented. And were it not for the fiet that the ring, controlle the coun ty. A majority of the commissioners would be from the city. But the city is Demmocracic and they fear to trust city «umimisioner. We say the
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Madison Weekly Democrat
Madison, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 17, 1892
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