The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-12

been made and the bonds paid ofr ST NJ .
the iav now ''anis aud has stood los tJinn' B
line pes, II ht. not h""'" roe !'.' /"
MAS and cary through suSn an assess.
ment with any hope of success.
IL. therefore, we cannot uJw look to
re-assessment rs "a remedy, the question
arises eau the city provide for the rc-
funding ur payment back of the amounts
paid out by such porsinsi To do this,
the city would havs to raise money by
taxation or the sale of bonds. ur by abtting,
81 u speak, the Fox, Howard * Co. inter-
est ~ favor OF sauh persOns, neither Of
which, II Is believed, The city c,n do
AS wv ars now situated, no one expects
that the city would be able u raise the
necessary funds by taxation and rs to
| the Issuance and sale OF bonds or borrow
| ins money, for ST. 20, or any ,ther, pur-
| pose, the prOhbitoh in the present con-
| s,itu ton ami. directly In tine way such
proceeding upon the part Of nc city
largely incrruHng It's Indebtedness.
As TO re cas- n such persons from the
payment ot interest on those bonds, all
| eau sea that were We t. do 80, then To
False the required amount of interest the
| lux therefor on ali Other persons
would have - be cprresponJingly
increased, and the assessment OF such
tax would be Practically without any uni
folmity whatever, and hence Illegal.
Besides, IN all those case, whore the pay
ment # tbs special as.essm mt would be
regarded rs merely II voluntary payment
and hence not constituting legal demand
against the city, or one not capable of BE-.
ing put into ajudgment, tbs city would
have no right TO make any payment, Or
give any credit, or make any deduction or
abatement; and should she undertake "a
DO so and thus treat such - payment Us n
legal and valid claim against ner wheel Ia
tact it was not, she would be subject OF
; liable to an injunction at the option Of any
person interested in the matter or TO be ut.
: fectcd by her action.
, These are no caption. ublccliuns, nor are
they pointed out IN uny .sucr spirit. Tn y
meet Us at the very Threshold whcUryrr
we enter upOu thr con .idera!ion uf th'
I matter.
: There ARE other matters to which ! nigh
y call yorr attent on, OF not less importance
:, perhaps, than some of those already men,
y Toned among which ! may name that o.
supplying the different parts Of the cit
IS with water for the extingulsh
IS ment of fires, and the more effcien
:. organization Of the Fire Department
It These matters will all receive, at you
l. hands, the attention they require.
is Daring the year past, the good order @
n our city has been preserved MS WELL per
n haps, as we could under most circum
n stances. expect. OF course defects, shorI
i. comngs aud inefiicency will appeal
D. more or less, everywhere; but when thes
70 are limited to Il reasonably small compss
u or mum be-, it is as much as we can cxpec
1t or reasonably hope for. Our city has no
'r been the resort, to any considerable e,
tent, of Those characters or persons, tn
u merits or honorableness Of whose calm
e, consist, chiefly in the dexterity with whlc
}; they obtain what belongs TO other, with
,e out consideration and too often with entir
y safety to themselves.
v when We g.t 30 far along that we car
ID not see the difference between the goo
10 and the bad in either private or publ
o. morals, nor between good order and publ
o quiet, and general throwing of Of a
those restraints which such ords
'r and quiet require and impose, we ma
., well give place TO those who acknowledg
l. no such difference to exist.
n The experience Of the past year ha
l. shown, j believe, that the general we
vs. fare Of the city rs TO all thes
a. matters depends largely upon the dii
RS countenanoe by the authorities, of tn
presence in our city Of all those char
OF acters who are generally not regarded 9
p desirable acquisitions anywhere.
y Entrusted rs we are, with the aafRipli
III tration Of the Affairs OF the city for at
y other year, w will not forget that Ii
punIic look to US to give that time and II
le tention, carefully and promptly,tu the bu
O. ness AM interests of the city which il
nc We fare demands at our hands. We has
10 undertaken 10 do this, and the obligatio
e should be faithfully performed.
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