Show BY EXPRESS COUNTY OFFICERS in another column will bo found a report of the speeches of camp and Do Friezo in which tho camo came in in for somo severe critic criticism elm tho the remarks themselves deserve no notice but that tile farmer and laboring man mail may know hilow hs it 9 f fiends from his bis enemies and escape th lared laid for his foot wo we will patai ex ata a little farther on tin an article in our last issue hero is what wo we said this brings 0 us to tile the of county offic officers ors A county official should be a financier a man whose income income was such that tile alie salary of his office would bo be no inducement for accepting it he should be a man man thohas who has proven himself progressive public spirited and unselfish who bublic olds holds the public woal weal above his private interests this was published all together in in one pra paragraph graph and it is unfair to quote duoto a part without t quoting 0 all of it the salary of all public offices is is supposed to bo be just juit enough to compensate its occupant for tile the time taken from his other oilier duties or occupation thus the fundamental principle of law is the assumption that an officer is not a drone or a loafer but an honest industrious citizen theo theio are some offices with which a mans financial ability lias has no connection for example justice of the peace sheriff sheri and coroner they are not supposed to handle or expend county money but how about tho the selectmen tile the county treasurer and the assessor and collector aro are wo we to assume that the county attorney wishes to see men who have made a fail failure tiro of every thing else they over ever tackled put in in charge of the hard earned money of the people however honest ho he may bo be Is any man who connot malie make more out of his own work than the county pays its officers qualified to handle the counties funds fundel an any V industrious i n dust rious farmer does that do our critics wish to turn all the honest men who stay poor their own mismanagement into office to fatten at tho the public crib no one is more heartily in favor of seeing the farmer well represented in 1 politics than ourselves but wo would advise them to choose from their number men who can accomplish the most with tho the least money As for mr defrieze he seems to think a county is entitled to two s salaries al and the farmer is confounded mean that wont sweat in tho flold field two days to pay him 1 for writing to the Go glovernor vornor |