The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY DECEMBER 15,1882

Dunstan Times, Issue 1077, 15 December 1882, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY DECEMBER 15,1882

Beneath the rule of men entirely j us. The pen Is mightier than the sword.

A special meeting of the Vincent County Council is convened for Thursday the 21st inst. to discuss a variety of questions (see Order Paper in another column), all of which doubtless are of greater or lesser importance and demand attention ; but why one question that is now being, and has been for months past, bandied about the Countv from one comer to (he other has been omitted from the programme surprises us not a little. The qimsis “ when aretheoutstanding liabilities to be paid ? If the accounts had not been passed, the qustion would have been confined to very narrow limits ; but having been parsed, and nothing having transpired either inside or outside of the Council to lead even to the thought that funds are wanting for the purpose, we cannot but join in the cry and ask, why is it—if the workman is worthy of his hire—that he has not been paid To our knowledge the vouchers have been made out, cheques filled in and even signed for weeks past, yet to every enquiry at the County Offices the invariable reply is—that either the cheques or vouchers are not yet to hand. Now, if this state of things is attributable to any new born zeal on the part of the Council either collectively or individually we can but say it is most illdirected, whereas if the state of the funds are such, that a danger of having some of the cheques returned wi hj the talisnianic N.S.F. marked on the back, then in that case the Council, as a whole, have exhibited the most reprehensible cowardice in not taking the ratepayers and creditors into their confidence and straightly putting the matter to them and asking for their patience till the county house is again got into fair working order. From August till December is too loug for any one, allowing that he would not be personally inconvenienced to be kept out of his money, hut to 'he man upon whose labor alone he has to dej pend for his subsistence ; it amounts to cruelty and is not to be defended for one moment. The question we refer to, is one of more than ordinary importance, it is paramount above all those on the Order Paper. We therefore hope it to he answered, and that in such a manner as that all who run way read.