The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-11

largs 40 Dallas. should the city Of Dalls
conclude a. bull works, th0if caps.
city should not DO less than four or ilv'
m.ilion gallons daily, then Ia this future !
may DO neeoed. aud an additional engine u
all that would DO required. am rear
always so unfJrtunste, as to DO with thu
minority. / presume may be- now, but
would DO derelict In duty 70 the city, over
which | once had lhe honor to preside al
her mayor, did not protest against this dis
position upon the part of some of ouI
ci,izens to largely increase cur bonded debt.
II is full of failscy, 10 dangerous; it is ruin
Gus. Pay Is you GO is the grandest financial
maxim If the ages. Nothing but absolute
nhcessity should ever discard that golden
rule. Is 1t necessary 10 increase our bonded
dsbt, which now reaches near $1,000
aaswe emphstically it 10 not ut this time. II
the water works would make u reasonable
proposition, would accept; If not, would
fill the cisterns and dig more az they are
needed. They are never out OF order. All
thsI is necessary is to keep them iull. Then
the CITY ia independent, not only 10 her fir Q,
flushing her cutters, but from the offensive
msnperisms OF officers OF small corporations,
winch by the way, ia about the heaviest tax
we are compelled to pay.
am astunlshed that the council should
spend the money necessary to send your
u aver north. when you had at Little Rock,
Colopel O'Connor, formerly from New
Orleans, who engineered the Milwauks e
water works, and Is justly regarded without
superior in America. Though a southern
man, biz emnen ability has called him north
more than once 10 important enterprises.
He could have gone to Dallas and given the
desired information In day or two. The
present water works has capacity too small
for our city. To purchase them even vt q
fair price would b the most stupendous folly
ever commtted-worse than Toodles.
Milwaukee boosted of nearly one hundred
,houeand people before che commenced her
water works, not ten years since. LIST US
content ourselves with our cisterD, unless we
can g-t water reasonably. but above and be
yond all, whether for sewerage, gas-works,
wAter.works, or for anything else. lei US be-
ware of the fate of Memph or Houston and
ether bankrupt cities. "L,t us pay rs we
60" reduce instead of increase taxation, go
slow and let the council work for Hubbard
narrow gauge and fill the clsterns and dig
more of them the, will do for the present.
Our poorer classes are unable now.to pay
their taxes, over burdened, the homes of many
of them sold and they unable to redeem
them. Times change and men change with
them.
see that numbers who have always been
opposed to the further issue of bonds have
given away to the pressure. When We ex-
tend the corporate limits of Dallas to in
Guide all tho depots Of railroads on the
north, east and south of the city, to include
our whole population, then with united
people in uui ed city, we can deal with
these momentous Issues. But Increase the
Indebtedness of our city, and we will never
be able to extend our limits, which must be
done by the consent of those taken in. An
extension of the city limits, the Hubbard
road and honest and economic city officers
is what we most need. Respectfully.
j. M THURnoNB.