FERMANAGH ratepayers are overburdened. The only sound advice which will bear fruit is

AGITATE! AGITATE! AGITATE!

The Fermanagh ratepayers are grumbling, they are saying those to themselves what they should proclaim from the house tops.They are blaming their public representatives, many of whom are asleep as to their responsibilities and others are culpably neglectful, and who have been basely betraying the interests they are supposed to uphold.

At the present moment farmers are having their incomes reduced. Prices are falling and one would expect that there would be a corresponding decline in the rates and in the public expenditure.

There is a Commissioner carrying on the duties of the County Council, and it is his business to see that there be no waste and that the rates next year show a decided decrease.

He has certain powers, but he cannot exercise them unless asked to do so.

Thus he is tied, and the ratepayers who are crying aloud for the redress of their grievances, must go to him and ask him to carry out the reforms that are necessary.

The Impartial Reporter has week after week been exposing the expenditure under the Tuberculosis Scheme.

The ratepayers are behind us in our efforts to get some reduction in this abnormal and costly scheme. But they are outwardly silent.

Unless they speak out now, this Tuberculosis scheme may be reformed and put on a lasting basis.

If they agitate the scheme can be wiped out.