The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-11

The tax payer gets nothing like an adequate
return. In city of the size of New York
where politics must necessarily cut large
figure, it is not to DO wondered at that a vast
deal Of money is wrung from the people with
which 10 grease thu machine, and hence we
sea the enormous amount of $50, 600, 900 an
naally expended in that city oItensib!y for
legitimate uses, but in rsality largo deal OF
it TO pay the salaries of.placemsn, ward poll
tioisns, whose services are requisite for the
bosses in the city campaigns. II ia not the
amount Of money expended in the support Of
municipal corporations thSt is so objectiona-
BILE. fvalus is received by the tax payer in
the way Of proper police protection,
lighted streets, sidewalks, pavsmshts, sewer
ago and effective frs department, etc, it
mskes.no difference how much no pays, that
is to say whore the amount is within tho
bounds of reason. Now, here in our city Of
Dallas we are won't TO think that the asFes-
sor and tax collector comes around very fire.
quently and thqt tho drain upon our pocket.
books is rather heavy. Well, perhaps this is
so. Ifthe stranger visiting ourcity goes over
It in the daytime and observes the entire abb
sance Of street pavements, especially vixen
We arc IN tho midst of the beautiful mud 40
now, and notices tho ysriOgated quality
OF our sidewalks, some of brick, some Of
stone, some Of plank and no two blocks Of
the same grade, and in many places
not even the sOmblance Of sidewalk, and
a. night counts the number of street lamps
we have, sees the inadequate facilities for our
fire department. and learns that we have no
system Of sswerage, he would very naturally
say to the tax payer, 'ycu pay very dearly
for your whistle. Why don't you pay just
little moro so that the city can give you tn
worth of your money in Improvements -
Dallas now 10 just at that condition OF ripe
meas as a city when she should begin to do rs
q city does-proTide side walks, sewers, etc,
and have police force, that, go far as num-
ber' is concerned, is not traveS!i9 upon the
system OF municipal guardians Of the peace
The man who Oxpends only ten dollars for q
suit of winter clothes, gets the veriSst of
shabby "hand' mO-downs" tina! will fade rip
in the seams and dropths buttons, and wear
out before the cold weather is over, whereas
II twenty five dollars had been expended for
A suit il would have looked well through the
'ntire season. would have been comfortable
ana could be Worn as an every day suit dur.
ng at least part of the next winter. Dal- |
as is pretty much in that condition. Her
municipal suit is Of tho shabbiesl shabby
'nd corporate matters 20 on from day to
lay, from hand to mouth, and slin |
70 hayo The mud, no sewers and |
Increasing work each summer for the
ioctor', aud increasing bills for the
rug stores and uAdortakerS. We have said
before, and We say it again, assessments are
90 low, aud penny wise and pound foolish
'ohcy prevails on the subjac. Of cit +, improve
nsnts. We want psvements, and above all
hinSs, wo want sewerage to stop the mound
ulldan ia our cemeteries. Maarial and
Uphold fevers and diphLheria and kindred
isssses that feed and ls.ten on filth have no
e1Ier pasture ground than Dallas will Gre
ing Offer if we have no sewers to rid Us OF
70 accumuations of back yards and closets
nat foster and ferment under the heats Of
INNER, to load down the atmosphere with
ssAse Rqd doAth.