The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-06-19


from local causes, and the rapid increase oil
our population, is pointedly in place.
Hitherto, dating back to the first efficient
measures adopted by our early Councils. Tor
draining adjacent ponds and wet lands, this
city has enjoyed good reputation for
healthiness of location. Before that drain
age, her reputation was the very reverse.
Before that drainage the malicious dis
eases Of the climate prevailed here, and
"sickly season" in the fall Of the year was
looked upon as a matter o. course.
Have we any better way OF judging the
future than by the past! And if we have
not, then let any one who feels an interest
in the probable chances of visitation during
the coming season from fever in its mag- |
nant forms from local causes, mount horse
and ride around the outskirts and immediate
neighborhood Of the city.
| If a physician or an undertaken, and he
shall harpen to have no heart, and shall con- !
template the budding prospect in a merely
business light. he will be UNNECESSARILY
pleased with the sure promise of an abundant
harvest in bis line.
IL it should happen to be Councilman,
we should feel confident that "surface drain
age" Of the surrounding country would be
made the special order Of the might at the
mex, regular, or an early special meeting of
the Board. If in this confidence we should
be doomed to disappointment, the afflicted
citizens will have the consolation this COM
ing autumn predicting, between paroxisms,
that the authorities, whose duty it Is to abaie
al! such nuisances as those pointed out
above, had their attention timely directed to
the object.
To do all the surface drainage thus impera-
q, pNt hundred
, dollars, but should it cost thousands it should
be done at once, and no man will complain
of taxes SO expended. Hundreds of thou
, sands will not compensate our city in mere
money point of view, for a season Of general
sickness, attended as it must be with the loss
OF the lives Of valuable citizens, and a dam
= aged reputation TO the city for health.
, There is still one more leading cause Of
municipal taxation, and that is our free
schools. Our people have so lately most
Enthusiastically expressed their willingness 10
be taxed tor this purpose, that the Guy
Council will in the performance OF its duty
without dissent, levy the required tax for
this purpose.
: Here then are the four leading objects OF
: city taxation; objects which alone ca for
: the imposition of as high tax as our Coun-
Gil will feel willing to impose, and this call
must not, cannot pass unheeded or unan-
swered. 1t must and will be responded 10
honestly and manfully.
Oar public credit must be maintained in
violate; our health and lives must be guard.
, ed by the removal of obvious local causes
} threatening us with disease aud death.
Our property must be guarded against de-
> struciion from fire; and the intelligence aud
, morals of our children, Of the poor as ell as
liz ka rob f,r int Al
' of free schools.
&c With these necessities for taxation, staring
Taxpayers, as well as Councilmen in the
d face, all will see the necessity in the free
&c sense Of an unsettled and stringent money
&c marSet, that no public expenditure be suffer
ed for any other than purposes absolutely
~ indispensible-that no other taxes be impos
II al. cithc- general or local, direct or indirect
bearing OH ALL ~"ly few of the citizen.
!, which are not imperiously necessary.
y, Let no plea of convenience. or facility
- merely, prevail against rigid economy. LIE
~ not one street be raised and another lowered
10 for mere uniformity or merely to carry GU
% any system, where no absolute necessity pre-
20 walls, unless indeed by common consent anC
% at the expense of the particular locality -
n Every dollar spent i'm raising or lowering side
. walks, in laying down brick when board,
n Will answer, in putting down costly gutterns
:, when a trench will answer the purpose il
=, making sewers when surface drainage viii
carry off the water, in cutting down or rails
~ ing up street As a matter of convenience ic
h travel or drainage, when the health or tho
:, business Of the locality do not immedatel,
=. demand it-al such expenditures not now
. and at once really called for, is money throw
=, away in such a time this, just SO much Ia
ken from the business or the necessities O
l.. the city, and as iii the last hair which break.
= the camePs back, such expenditures may il
the event OF an increased financial pressure
"a prove disastrous to our best interests. There
- are OF course numerous minor causes OF ex
penditure, such as the maintenance OF i'm
=, provements already made, the cleaning OF the
~ streets and alleys and other matters connect
10 ed with the city government, which must be
= responded to and provided for, but the com.
:, mencement Of new improvements should be
:, deferred. Any jealousy heretofore existing
9 between different localities, should be buried
> let US call for no new works either up OIL
down town. The rains that have fallen here
- to:ore have been carried off in the old chan.
!: nels without any considerable destruction Il
: property; so will those be which fall here.
. after. Let us build no sewers now, but care.
" fully keep open the channels for surface
y drainage oil over the town. In year oil
- two the public works which now require aid
V, from us, will afford aid to us, and the increase
= Of our commercial and manufacturing inter.
" ests will enable us to make all improve me mt
IS necessary to accommodate every interest nd
" all sections Of the place. We are but a
:, small place, our interests are Identical; we
must increase in population with great rapid
= ity, and those localities which do not become
valuable for business, will become valuable
g. for residences. and there is now no property
\ here so valuable for business, but what prop.
" erty in other locations will be still more val.
" liable for residences before many years
> elapse.