Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-06-26
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY BY
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THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE &C. 1872.
The Ctty Finding Scheme.
The progress oftbis scheme is again tagging
Nj &C Tim larna MN residenk hnndhnlder

The progress oftbis scheme is again Tagging
Nest Of the large non resident boDdholderS
have accepted the proposed terms Of settlement.
The cbsractiorists arc those cfour owo house
hold.
Should the present fort to life the city out
Of the slough fail. the failure may DO set down
t. Tic credit Of our oHn people. "a the qucs-
top, whether wo shall or shall not DO relieved
o! thirty thousand dollars per amman. they
hold tho casting vote. 1t they maintain their
present attitude, thcy may DO regarded as baV'
ing already cast it 10 tho negative.
/. is melancholy to observe the suplneness
With which this subject is treated By those
viia'ly interested. 1t is simply astounding to
kuow that some-property owners, too, who are
not over fond Of paying tho high taxes which
their eaursc surely tcnds to imposs-should TO
heaid TO discourage, or oven oppose tho settle
mani.
No opportunity ike that DOW offered Tor
placing tho town On healthful and hopeful
basis has been presented during tue last thirty
ysars--uonc like it is probable for thirty years
10 oomp. Indacj, It's this or nothing, It is now
or never.
II is easy enough ito hope That some plan
may be found to help US out OF our strait to
talk OF appointing Receiver" and to in
duIgc 10 lik9 crude, vague and meaningless sug.
gestiona. WHAT'S needed is. the active and the
immediate Cooperation Of every citizen of the
town. in securing the SUCCESS OF the pending
measure.
1t is not thing which will work itself
through alone; quite otherwise. odd it has now
reschcd the stage where every aid and appliance
at command is In urgent requisition.
How ono holding any interest whatever 10 the
town can DO Indifferent 10 this matter passes
comprehension.
What then can be done?
lat every citizen bondhoider 80 forthwith and
accept the terms offered.
What is tho present market value of this
ko6d? Folly, perhaps forty one. The new
bonds. with their character onca established,
clruot bo worth less than fifty or oven sixty,
with tendency still further upwards and free
from city taxation.
let the terms be accepted without further
delay; one is waiting and another is waiting
waiting for what they cannot exactly tell-and
this, 50 long as it lasts, is equivalent to refusal
Let no proper ipflucnoc which any citizen can
exert to induce such immediate acceptance be
withheld, but let it be txarted earnestly.
Seven hundred thousand bonds nearly arc
represented on the list of parties who have &C.
ocwed. Another hundred and fifty are needed,
moro than half of which arc believed to DO
held in the city.
It is plain to see that the lss; hundred will be
tho most difficult to be obtained; tho pinch
comes towards tho end. and honco tho necessity
Tor extraordinary cxeriou.
BoudholGcr and property holder will alike
profit by tho result, if it proves, as it ought to
b. mado 10 prove. sucoess(u!-and both may
settle down into q state Of confirmed despair, il
it shall fail.
A few days. now, must 6S this result, 10 one
way or the other.