| Show NOT EXTRAVAGANT Some Enquirer Lies Are OllleNailed Nailed to the Cross THE COUNTY OFFICERS Have Not Such a Fat Thins as The Enquirer En-quirer Would Make BelieveThe Rec May ords are Public and TaxPayers See For Themselves What is Done With the Money On Friday evening of last week there appeared in the Enquirer one of those spiteful untruthful affusions that emanate em-anate every so often from the week and benumbed mass of mush that passes for the brains of the editor of that sheet TilE DISPATCH had thought that the small portion of the public who read the Enquier were so well acquainted with its tactics of falsehood and habit of distorting records re-cords and facts that what it says in these articles in which it so frequently chaws over the lie that democrats in office are outrageously extravagaut and that they use up SO per cent of the income i in-come of the county in salaries had no effect whatever but some friends of this paper seem to think otherwise and desire that the truth be laid before the public concerning this matter i The total receipts of the county last I assessed this I year with a 2 mill tax year only a 1M mill tax is levied was 36039 00 The total amount paid to county officers including all salaries and per diem fees was 851303 leay ine 28526 57 which was expended in other waye Some 81500000 was spent on schools alone The most t stupid pupil in percentage that Prof Walton ever taught can see that not 20 per cant of the taxes have been paid for salaries leaving over 80 per cent to be expended otherwise and this was during the time when that greediest I of salary and fee grabbers Judge I Jones the Enquirers paragon and the paragon of all local republicans repub-licans was in office The Enquirer En-quirer man was standing on bis head when he prepared the figures he is now parading before the public At least iiis 80 and 20 should be reversed The Enquirer man with all his other faults is a most envious individual He is not making money he cannot get it now as df old by dishonest tricks twice billing gouging and bulldozing and now his last resort is to let fly his spleen at those honorable men who are working faithfully for the best interests inter-ests of the public and who are of course I being paid wages by the public for so doing But see how unfair he is He says the probate judge draws 4400 per day besides his fees He does not Be gets a per diem of 400 for days actually served only The county clerk gets 51200 a year or w 325 every day besides the two or thousand dollars in fees Why was the fact that the clerk is obliged to pay all deputy and office help out of this not mentioned An investigating committee carefully examined into this matter not long ago and reported that the office including salary and all feeswas worth only 1900 a earWhere is the two or three thousand in fees And Mr Halliday has employed em-ployed continually one helping baud and oftentimes many more This very day and yesterday he had three hands at work all to be paid out of his 1900 The sheriff draws 125 per month averaging more than 310 per day It will be remembered that when Mr Brown stepped into this office the county court cut the salary of the sheriff from 2000 to 1500 and at the same time passed a resolution making it compulsory upon the part of the sheriff to hire a jailor and pay him out of the salary of 81500 The jailor cos B Mr Brown 60000 a year which makes the cut 1100 more than half showing show-ing that the court had economy wIth a vengeance in its mind and practiced it rigorously And then out of Mr Browns 900 yearly salary he pays his his regular deputv leaving him only avery a-very small portion of the salary left The office with salary teed and allnets him only a yery little over 7500 per month The sheriffs offic is costing the county less by far according to tUa work donethan it ever before has cost and the I work was never done In a better bet-ter or more satisfactory manner The collector gets 2750 salary and last year he made oyer four thousand dollars in fees continues this Enquirer En-quirer ignoramus It will be remembered remem-bered that Mr Opensbaw is especially disliked by the Enquirer and has been especially lied about by it It said he was only an ordinary farmer and incompetent to fill his present position and that be was crowding the collections collec-tions against worthy pour by selling real estate only to get fees Mr Open shaw is under 8120000UO bonds 10 do his duty and even the Enquirer could not prevent him from doing it lie lumped the sales in order to save expenses ex-penses Had he sold the pieces of land separately as was done in Salt Lake his fees would have been higher than they are and they were not hover four thousand dollars The county is cairyiug only 3000 on this land sold lor taxes and that sum includes the taxes due the collectors fees for selling and all expenses Out of his salary of 82750 Mr Opensnaw pays for all his advertising postal cards and they are many and printing his office expenses help and fifteen deputies The office is not such a fat thing after all The assessor gets 2160 it is true but he has far more than a couple or three months work to o and besides he pays out of this au Of his field deputies dep-uties and qther expenses The people are indeed getting efficient effi-cient work for little money from their county officers dernociatc though they be and all the Enquirer may sav to the contrary notwithstanding In this connection let us ask the Enquirer En-quirer why it has slighted its old friend trash He has reduced the costs to the county for criminal prosecutions from four and five thousand dollars a year to a little over over six hundred dollars He also raised a roar and was successful suc-cessful in getting Judge Jones bills reduced at least 10000 per quarter for each of the three last quarters He has otherwise saved the county money The county records are public property prop-erty Anyone who desires may see them and ascertain for himself that all of the above is absolutely true |
