The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-03-17
CLOSE MARKETS.
One Eight in which the Vege.
table. Etc, Ordinance
Is Viewed.


! When a city establishes market
| house, fixes upon given space, with q
! certain number of sta ls IN which meat
| vegetables aud fish may be sold, and for
| bid their sales anywhere else in the city,
| durIug the hours in which from custom
ana the convenience of working men,
marketing is done, what does it do but
TO establish monopoly, connive ut un-
reasonable price, deliberately inconVenl-
! once the whole people, tax the necessl-
ties of life instead OF its capital and its
iuXuries, put a charge on the daily out
20 instead of the annual income, and
get It's tax not from property but from
poverty?
First monopoly-By limiting the loea-
ton and space for the sale of any goods,
and then limiting also the number OF
ated into whose hands is committed the
entire control of the articles under reg
ulation, and they would be better than
human if they failed to combine aud
raise prices 10 the highest bearable
limit.
SecOnd-Commenee at unreasonable
price. The power that establishes a
monopoly knows what Will come. and is
accessory before the fact, SO particeps
crimiuis.
Third-Incon7eniences the whole peo-
pie. Every purchaser at price
higher than need be is worse than
i1convenienced - he is cheated-but
there is simple but grievous ineon-
venience to most Of the citizens We're
markets and stands weuld spring up in
oil ,yAC ~ h. 40,
would run to our doors with meat and |
vegetables as they do with our bread |
and milk. But with clese market the |
whole town must tramp to one place at |
the most inconvenient hour of the day
and no matter what he either the |
weather, the distance or the sex OF the
purchaser. A lady wants yard OF silk,
a new pattern of gold ring and she |
may order her carriage at any hour of
the day, find what she desires in various
localities from any one out of a great
of merchants, all in competition
with each other. But a poor widow
must have dinner, and if she would
find a decent market there il to her no
choice of hour, no choice of place, and
no good in a choice of market-man for
there is no competition to make bargain
ing valuable
F0urth-TaXing the necessities OF life
instead of its capital and its luxuries.
All the paraphernalia of close market
system is O-tensible for the income from
the market-hOuse rent.
Naturally all the difference OF rents be-
tween the city stalls and little stands in
cheap localities, or the no rents Of street
sales, must be put upon the articles sold,
and raises the price OF every pound of
meat and bunch Of vegetables that come
to the city. The combination for high
prices, III virtue Of the monopoly, posi-
BILE to close market, but hardly SO
among a large number of scattered
dealers, is an added burden that falls
upon every purchaser. And these pur-
5hases are the uecessaries OF life--must
De had every day, and by all alike. The
amount OF purchases at the market de-
pc. dis simply upon the mouths to be fed,
and it is VIGOROUSLY true that the poor
nave quite as many as the rich. By this
system Il man helps to support the city
and do the city's work, not
according to the property he owns but
he children he has-nOt according to
he amount OF his estate, but according
o the months he has to feed. Is it Il
rood government that fosters monopoly
lpou its own citizens and disrogards
heir convenience?
Is 1t good government that makes
'rOtit out of the necessities of its poorer
lasses by raising the price Of their
Ictuals?
Is it good government that regulates
pward the price OF every poor mans
inner and leaves the rich mans br ad-
10th and linen to take care OF them
elves?
Why must go to the center Of the
ity for my meat, but get my clothes
here l please?
Why can l not buy vegetables at my
cor until after ten o'clock, but the
aker and milkman can call me out OF
ed if they please
If a city can own buildings and rent
lem at a profit like it's citizens, it mnyf
Z well enough, but if it has t. force
,Gtal by special laws, it had better not
yn them.
Great and very inconvenient) is the
ystery of city government, and very
King 10 the moor