Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-01
RI LAND HERALD.
MONDAY, JULY 90, 1867.
Sew erage.


chat at the late meeting an attempt was
upjustly made to control the action of
the Trustees, and to force upon the tax
payers OF Rutland fabulous bill OF ex.
pense, and that by minority of the votes
of the village. Does he forget that the
meeting referred to was duly notified,
that for several days the warning was
published and that every body in the
corporation had a right TO go to it II
they wanted to2 There is nothing that
the advocates OF sewerage want more
than general expression OF the wishes
OF the people. Nor would they, if they
could, have an expense like that involved
we'd in the proposed system Of sewerage
put on the tax payers Of the village,
unless by the general consent of the in
habitants.
Does not brother Cain in his solicitude
for minorities, forget that in truth he is
working in the interest OF a few rich
men, perhaps more than any other class
Health is blessing to all. But to the
poor man 1t represents bread for his
family. Doctors bill is small mat
ter to q rich man, and II the air of his
residence grows foul he has the means
to abate the evil, or if he cannot abate it,
he can spend the sickly season in a
purer atmosphere. Should typhoid
fever or Dysentery break out, the poor
man and his family have to stand still
and take it. He has no large commodi-
Gus house where the sick person can be is.
olated in large airy bedroom with hired
nurses to take care OF the patient. His
family crowded together, all It's members
are exposed to the contagiOn. Where
does cholera run riot? Where does
typhus fever and dysentery and bowel
complaints sweep off families and deci-
mate the inhabitants, except amongst
the crowded and undrained tenements Of
the poor7 We have seen many incon-
s'stencies, but this beats them all.
Brother John haven't your sym
pathies, since visions of gold begin
to loom up in your brain from your
marble quarries, begun to forsake your
laboring friends, the poor men, whose
interests you have always pretended to
advocate. You begin to grip your money
bags we fear, for surely in this you are
acting in the interest of the monied
men, rather than in the interests OF the
householder of moderate means or the
occupant of tenement houses.
We can'easily understand that rich
man with large grounds, who has sue
ceeded by little domestic drainage, in
carrying the filth from his own premises
into the street or upon the grounds ofhis
neighbor, might say and think that he did
not want any drainage that he was well
enough off; or that man who loaned
much money. or owned much bank stock
or many 1905, that his property did not
need any sewerage, and that he might
grow savage against any attack upon
his money bags, although the object con-
poorer people-or that the chronic
Croakers about taxes might get their
hands very sore over this new infection
or that the man who let's many tene.
ments to the poor might say, houses are
in demand and sewerage won't improve
my rents. Brother Gains faniaronade
looks like the employed advocacy of just
these classes.
There is, however, one explanation Of
his course which relieves it of any sus-
pcion of short sightedness. John, we
believe, is not altogether obIivious of the
main chance. We think it not at all un-
likely that he is aware that during the
present season several families in the
lower parts and in the more crowded
portions of the village have grown sick,
according to the Doctors, from the gases
from filthy drains. He knows that
some of those who could move have
left these infected districts that some
have left town; that quite d number Of
pCOplC hiC sCChluS cub'Ol- buC-NlllaSC ~
cations, to get rid of the curse of filth
and crowding He knows that the more
public attention, by means of public
is directed to the matter,
and that the longer the evil continues
the more people will seek suburban resi-
dences. Now it so happens that John is
large land owner, and that his lots are
at present being bought by Just the class
OF people referred to. And he is shrewd
enough to know that if this matter of
sewerag which his good sense and his
sense of justice makes him admit is nee
essary, can be postponed, until toe bur
den of local and national taxes shall
have passed away, his land will all be
SOLD and built upon, and he Will have
waxed fat on the sewerage question.
But, Brother John, can't you, sell
y0nr lots before the national debt is
patd? won't that Pittsford marble be
n noaI hOpaSf old fashioned