Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-12

| in mind And yet l think the increased cost
| chargeable to the general expenses of the city
government may be borne and all needful i'm
provements occasioned by the growth OF pop
ulation, be made, by reason of a corresponding
increase in the value of assessable property,
without charging the rate of taxation.
The credit of the city stands very high, and
Justly so, because it possesses in the most eX-
allied degree the two essential prerequisites
recognized in all financial circles as standards
of credit of the first class, that is ability and
Willingness to pay, at maturity, all Its obll-
cations.
With low taxes and long. course
of prompt payment OF In
terest and all matured Indebtedness its bonds
naturally rank among the best OF American
municipalities, its per cents. having been
eagerly taken at 3 per cent. premium.
1t should, and doubtless will, be the policy
of the city government to maintain, and pos
sibly 1t may increase, ahe present high standing
of its securities.
RAILROADS.
The progress of our railways and their in
creaSing business, are surprising the most
sanguine amongst our people as wei, as as
founding the most doubling, and are attract
ing capital, new business enterprises, and i'm
mense numbers of emigrants of the best and
most desirable of the emigratlng classes from
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nearly all other nationalities.
The railways are agencies which have large
" made known to the world the magnitude of
the resources in productive wealth Of the
soil of our great "New Northwest"
But for them the accumulated capital Of
our people and the stupendous acquisitions to
our population, could not be.
They should be treated justly and fairly,
therefore, at our hands, for these, if for no
other reasons.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENTS AND OVER
FLOW OF THE LOwLANDs IN THE SIXTH
WARD.
The improvements already made, together
with those projected by the general govern
ment for improving the facilities of transpor-
tation upon the Mississippi river from its
mouth to New Orleans, St. Louis and st. Paul
by various methods, including ''the reservoir
system, when perfected, must greatly increase
the importance of our city as receiving and
distributing point, and thus aid in making it
one of the three greatest cities on this immense
river, requiring all the levee room the city
may be able to control, and | think one very
great incidental benefit to the West side of the
city, will necessarily follow the completion Of
the reservoirs, that is, that the water from
snow and rain flowing into them in the
spring and early summer, will be held back
in time of floods and only let out gradually
when needed for navigation, and thus the low
lands of the Sixth ward will be free from all
danger of overflow and inundation from that the
main source, contamination most devoutly
to be wished for.
In respect to the projection Of dykes,
levees, or other means OF pro-
tecting property subject to overflow. I
think works should not be commenced until
it shall have been ascertained by thorough
engineering teets that the desired results can be
attained with the means that can be commanded.
Any other course would be unwise, and might
prove delusve. and to many result in despair
and ruin
PUBLIC HEALTH.
In framing or revising plans relating to
sewerage, drainage, street cleaning, the purl-
tcaton of hospitals and other public buildings
and the abatement Of all nuisances that tend to
engender Or promote disease, the public health
should be considered as paramount to all
other questions, and provision should be made
for the prompt appliance of al needed means
for its protection, without being dwarfed by
the question of cost, whatever that may be.
In this connection street sprinkllrg is also
of importance during the heated seasons, and
the subject of which should be taken in charge
by the city authorities, if the provisions of our
charter will admit of it land if not the power
should be obtained at the next meeting of the
legislature) and the sprinkling let by contract
embracing such streets as the Board of Health
might deem requisite, and such others as q
majority of two-thirds of property holders
living or residing thereon might request, the
cost to be assessed upon the property fronting
thereon.
I suggest that upon streets partly occupied
by the street railways, the companies might
be induced to join, by contributing to a por-
ton of the cost of sprinkling them.
think it would increase their patronage to
an amount in excess of a liberal contribution.
GAMBLING AND THE "soCIAL EVIL"
are so detrimental to public morals, the good
order of society and so dangerous to
the young, as tending. to ruin
yet so difficult to eradicate or suppress, as the
wisdom of the Oldest and most enlightened
civilizations of the world testifies, should in
order to be supervised and restrained by the
police, be brought within as narrow specified
limits in the oily as may be practicable, and so
be obscured from the general public that they
will not be an affront to decent and respectable
people.
The ordinances relating to retailing spirits,
wines and malt liquors, think should be SO
construed as to limit the issuing of
licences to persons of known
intelligence and good character, who in their
own interest will deal in only pure or unadul-
terated articles, who will discourage youth
from visiting their houses, nor encourage OF
permit gaming or drunkenness upon their
premises.
INCREASE OF THE POLICE FORCE.
Several outlying districts of the city and the
body OF the city itself have become so popu-
lous that the police force, although efficient,
is inadequate in numbers to afford the needed
protection to the inhabitants, in the former
districts especially, to which l think they are
justly entitled, and therefore l respectfully
recommend an increase of the force.
CATTLE AT LARGE.
The great number of cattle running at large,
in portions of the city, at least, is matter of
serious complaint, creating some loss, and
what is much worse, irritation and bad blood,
especially when they break into the premises
of those who take great pains to ornament
their grounds. So in regard to farmers and
producers who bring their productions to
market, they feel that their property ought to
be fully as free from the Entertainments of
animals in the city as it is in the country,
where owners are compelled, and find it to
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