The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-08
HIARKET.HOUSE AGAIN
Are Wade tYinthOrpe's Esea.
sOnin2s. Conclusions and
Suggestions all Correct?

SuSs estIOns all COrret,
Wade,Winthrope in his article in-yes-
terday mornings paper, While reasoning
III good Ialth, making suggestions and
pointing odt what lie honestly belle, es
TO be to the city's benefit. we are some
what incliucd to bell We, is standing on
the other size of The Veil. which he accuse
us of seeing through dImlv and himself
locking Through ii in All uncertain light.
In the IirsJ place he asks: ny has not
this important ordinance been en-
fofc,d GcreJofoit2' lie might as well
ask why has not the ordinance forbiGdng
merchants and others from Using more
than eighteen inches of the walk. the one
regulating the hanging OF signs AID a
( dozen others been more RICHLY enforced.
Does It argue that because a law has not
been entolCed by on" adminisIrat on that
it must not be by succeeding on 5? Be-
cause Years ago gambling was thought to
be no bad habit in Texas ana even slaves
changed hands at the poker faro and
IN rnte table, that we should row gamble
IA the public reefs and our existing law
tor idding il shOuld not be enforced
/ Tie reason that enforcement OF this Ordi-
nance Is to CONNIE noe on March |. as was
plainly understood by ali the councilman.
WAS 10 ALLOW all persons vino do not BRO
pose 10 sell in the market house 10 dis
pose OF their wares, market wagons.
street outfits. etc, without loss. that they
| might not hereafter say the city took snap
! judgment on them. Mr.. Winthrope is
mis- AIKEN in iIn ginlng that the council, as
/ a mere legislative body" is going to as
/ sumo executive functions. This Ordina &c
was made by previous council. differ
! ent mayor and marshal and the prt sent
! city government, leg .Slative and eXecu-
! tive, find il in the book of ordinances and
say it should either be enfo ced or wiped
/ out. The {. unCil inStruciS the marshal
| to commence enforcement of the ordi-
nance on March |, and We believe he
will see that the spirit of its provisions
/ are carried out. Neither tue present
mayor, council or marshal are respon-
/ sIble for the ordinance, and should not
/ be blamed for It's nOn-enfOrcemeut by
( preceding administrations and marshals
! Mr.. Wnthrope might, however, very
/ properly ask why II is that our present
/ city government has been so long find
/ ing ont that this and other ordinances,
now not enforced at all, were made 10y
! previous councils, got tine mayors mark
| Of approval, were published, aud then for
/ want OF attention from the marshal or
! from other cause became equal to dead
/ The book OF ordinances might be gone
/ over and several perhaps as important
- the one under discussion found,
(which, though not dead, are surely not
alive Ii people are allowed to break
one ordinance and yield obedience to
another SIMPLY because i pleases them
to do 50, the council would soou find t.
self making ord nances merely 70 please
thousand 70 accomplish that task, and
after each one had been pleased with his /
own ordinance he would be displeased
with everybody else's, and the result (
would be that we wOuld soon have no or /
dlnauce5 at all, wEice we admit would be .
infinitely better than a book full Of them .
not executed. But, Mr.. Winthrope saws:
Not one cent derived from that source
(market house, ever did or probably ever
Will 60 INTO the city treasury II never
has been and there is 10 reasonable
probability II ever viii be source Of
revenue to the city. The fact is the city
has no murket-hOuse." He then roes on
to say. ut protects d grinding monopoly
of three OF four persons who dish ont
poor bull beef 1t an enormous profit
even # We have the charity to conclude
that we get good gospel weight: and the
money arising from rents goes monthly
to the holders of large debt
againt the building, and it Is
far to infer that not much
more than the accTuing interest j. met
so that the principal OF the debt is but
very little, If any reduced" If the re-
celpts from rents Of the market house do
not 90 into the city treasury, will Mr..
MlnthTope tell us where they do go? To
be sure, money is applied to payment OF
he n NJ 1~.g ~
the building and figures viii show that ,
it is being reduced. All city MONEYS, !
Mr.. WInthrOpe will admit. 90 ont in tha
same way-alI paying interest and prin- +
clpal Indebtedness, and the treasury is :
empty all the time. It is iumnin0 !
at conclusion to say that there t
IS no probability of the market /
house ever being source of {
revenue to the city The elegant I
market at Memphis was built in the t
same way as the Waco one and returns /
/ big revenue to-day. Houstou's SS0.COO I
is the city's pride AS we'll a
Is source of revenue, and such is also '
he case at San Antonio and Austin. II {
! because their market-house ordi- G
lances are enforced, and while speaking
II 1t, We will say that our ordinance Is
iratted from the Houston one. which
las been found to be an excellent one :
here. and has built up d market second 9
o none IN the south. But Mr.. Winthrope .
irgues that We have no market house :
nat 1t belongs to those who a
loId mortgages on it. Then the 0
nan who buys d hat but does not nay n
or II until the first Of the month does L
not own 1t, and the man who has the a
'uliuIng ASSOCIATION put up house for 81
nm and makes several payments ON il cl
las no interest III II at ali, and it will "
foDaDIy never be source of revenue to u
I'M IN SAVING HIM the payment of rent, II
M ne Aad better give 1t up. All we'll 81
ondUcted markets IN the south prove W
hey are source of revenue, and Waco III
al rs well run hers right or abandon -
q The grinding monopoiies would -
llhd Just as much II they were peddling
ieat on the streets, and would give. no -,
oubt, tar poorer meat and less of il to II
lie pound II they were III d shanty by th
on corner where their th
'Other butchers could not watch them he
Is fact that at butchers stalls in co
amliton, COmanche, Brown and other ao
eat beef counties you get poorer WI
'ef and less OF IT for the money than sit
lywhere else. And why is it? Our in
'rrespondent asks for free trade and do
llors' rights " in this matter, and why be
1t ask for the same in the matter of oc. "a
patton taxes? Such thing is un-
lown IN many other states, either for
ty, county or state revenue, and still a.
e states and corporations live. We Dn
fer from Wade Winthrope, and say We IN
We market house, and with the or,Ii- a :
nee properly enforced it will nav -
venue to the city, as experience every
lere proves, and the people of other
les consider neither their markets nor "a
finances burdensome, but benefits. ~
seed sweet potatoes tor sale at b ,rt
'ore's.-02O2rc =
end
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