The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-06

pupllC hlnu' 10 excite interest, To induce
4 fair, appropriated, deliberate, intelligent
discussion of the matter, was The BuI.LE.
TINS object in opening the discussion
Personal chickering's are foreign to the mat
ter under considerations; mere assertions,
paIpaby iallacious, must be avoided de-
nunciatlons, and opithets must not be
brought into the argument What is want
ed is plain, calm statement of facts from
every old citizen who has made the nc
cumuIated water in this city in past years
a subject OF observation and thought. 1t
is necessary to know the cause and charac.
ter OF an evil before you can intelligently
apply means OF cure or prevention, aud to
tins end experience and observation arc nee
csSary, II such persons rs Fifty SIX" in
Grandmother Argus, will coniine them
selves to mere statement of what they
know OF sipe and rain water in this city,
rather than occupy. newspaper space, and
weary the public, with personal denuncia-
tIons, vulgar cpitlets, and mere, theoretical
and palpably unreliable assertions they
would contribute something toward the
end saught. FIFTY six" objects
to the appointment of COM
mlttee of five citizens, in connection with
one OF five cOuncilmen, for the purpose OF
ascertaning the best plan of preventing &C
cumulatlons of water in the city, because,
he says, the council, "bcing elected by the
people, should need no committee to in.
form them OF what is best TO be done, and
how to do it, And if they alone are not
capable TO devise means for curing the
water evil he advises them 10 resign He
doesn't want them to- listen to any
Thanksgiving Of outside committees, etc;
he wants them to "uSo their own Judge
ment IN the expenditure of the peoples
money "FIty-siX' is unreasonable and
Inconsistent. He is unreasonable because
ne assumes that the mere election Of
councilman constitutes hlm sort of ami
mated, local encyclopedia, thoroughly
verSed in all that concerns the city, from
It's incorporation to the present time, and
particularly SO with reference to the geolo-
gical mysteries of the city's bottom. He
would have them depend exclusively upon
their own judgement and meagre infOrma.
ton, and prescribe q remedy for serious.
chronic evil without having diagnosed the
case and inquired of the patient how,
where, when, which, etc He is inconsis.
tent, because, while urging them not To
listen to any "outside monkeying," he falls
into series of most silly verbal grimaces
himself, and demands that the council |
heed him and eXpend the peoples money in
accordance with his suggestions.
he accommodation of the street
to appoint a committee of five Councilmen |
and five citizens to investigate the water
problem and report to the council some
plan for preventing accumulations of water,
is wise, and should be carried out. In or
der to act inteligently and with any prob |
ability of effectiveness, the council must
inform itself, and in order to do this noth-
ing can be better than to appoint commit
lnn ulngn HntN, .hn1I L.. q. e.. - |
The committee should trans
form itself into sort of judicial body,
huntup all the old "Ffty.siyers" in the city
aud make them tell, not what they think,
but what they KNOW, about sipe and rain
water in Cairo. Such IN investigation, by
ten intelligent citizens, must result in the
accumulation of all necessary information
and in the ultimate adoption of some prac-
teal and undoubtedly effective plan of
In the meantime, however, TO
suggest and discuss plans is in order.
Discussion is one way and very good way
to elicit information, and an interchange Of
thoughts may aid materially in arriving at
correct conclusions. But it should be borne
IN mind that exhibitions of personal i'll
will, or simple vulgar epitbets in speaking
of a plan which does not meet the writer's
approval or mere assertions based upon a
theory that is paIpably false all these are
not conclusive to q proper and profitable
consideration Of the matter at issue. "Ffty.
six dlsmisSes pudding and seeks to crush
the advocates of that plan by simply ex-
claiming "humbug." HIS plan, to fill all
low places in the city with two feet of clay
dirt, bears much stronger evidences OF total
neilcctiycncss than does pudding, but
though, perhaps, justified in doing 30, we
will not be so ungallant as to dismiss it
with the samc powerful argument used by
HIM to annihilatc pudding and puddlers.
We will say now, that to fill the low
places OF the city with two feet of dirt
htny