The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-10-20
Plain Talk,
On PIsin sabJeess.
sYA rLArx cHAr.
CITY.

IL is big thing Tor place to LIsom
from village TO q city. IL Is as ersHd
an affair as it is for boy TO jump from
dresses into knee breechss, or for cat
70 kill It's Grst mouse. In the eastern
states the village does not begia to
think Of becoming an incorporates city
until it gets eight or ten thousand in
habitants within its limits; but here .
thousand is enough TO make . place
puff itself up until il cannot sse il tosf,
and the first thing you ksew IL has sP-
piled to the Legislature and has three
wards, a mayor, half dozen aldermen,
And-aDy amount Of taxes to pay, fSr
the privilege Of wearing this wonderful
parapbernali1. likes city, / wait
TO be surrounded by imposing aldsrnso.
narsbAls, etc. There is scmsthing
stable in the thought Of government,
and ia order TO have cities here 1t al
it is necessary that We manufacture
email places intO"then; but for PHYS
sake when We once get the cap On, Ne
should not try to shirk the harashiPs
attendant upon the great hDnos Of 10
ing q city. We must rsnembsF that
the dancers have TO ray the HddisT.
So it is with the incorporated city. A
board flea up and strikesa PsAssAbis
person on the arm, breaking bone IN
several places. It takes money to sst
bones. Who broke these bones; not
the pesceAbIe person, but the negligent
CITY, so the former clsihs, and the bsy
with the board in his hand is imnsdi.
atsly sued for IS. 900 damages, for the
privilege OF wearing this cap with
feather in it, and whether hs has 70
pay it or not he has to fee several law
yers in handsome style, %, to szy ths
least, IN finds big hels in his pocket
It is most terribly unfortunate affair
that corporations have obtained the
repdtatisn Of having no ssnls. Mea
sue them the same as they weuld dig
into hill fer gold end they seem 10
think they are just a. unfeeling. Of-
ten the cate occurs where the municiP-
al corporation ia prosecuted, when, II
the alleged offence had been commit
ted by private individaal-s neigh
bora suit would not b thought OF
Iu fact 10 MANY cases they would NOS
even see q wrong; but it il . very ea'y
thing to see something out OF the say
when legal gentleman Is at your back
putting heas in yeur ears.
These are some Of the Disadvantages
of being city; but the truth i the
city has soul, and very 6ig one teo.
II is equal to all the souls Of he pee.
/. ple who make it up Except the lawyers
. in it) Every injury to the city 10 an
injury to each Of them Every ad-
= ditional SUM put upon the eity's shoul-
. ders is a burden upon them, tor n
comes out of thei. pockets. 1 have
NV opinion Of the man Who WIN cue q
CITY unless he has the greatest eaoas
D fer it. there is grsss negligence q
J. something of that nature. A city had
r. better be full Of malArial swamPs ant
r. Ia safer with wild bears at It's out
s, skirts. will never Be guilty Of hyipi
OF in place that l do not take an inteE
= est in, that will not help build NJ
and use my best energies in werkin
. for. True, if there has besa gres
: negligence, then it is only right tha
the one, whether city by its appoint
ed agents, or an individual, should pa
- for the injury done, in consequences
- it.
But while there are drawback
there are blessings connected with
A. city. II means progression, growtl
Things are managed in a more reguh
style, or should be, etc, etc, but
d, place should not seek to become OF
of before it can carry the additional y
ra sponsibilities. There seems to -
passion among western places to hal
the name city attached to tAem.
'es know of one place with snly aba
oo half dozen houses that oalls itss
city. Empire City, ia Coos county,
not very far ahead of that, and list
insignificant villages AL Through q
~ northwest can be named, which .
1b in the same boat. II is nistak'
idea if the settlers Of such places thin
o'' they can add to their population
W. such fraud. The reaction Is great
ats than the benefit. 1t is like . Glow
''e claiming to be king. 1t amusss
disgusts everybody.
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