The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-07
"OUis CITY MARKET"
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Something Else.


WACO, February 6.-An article in your
issue of Saturday lust, under the above
caption, inGuces objections, some OF which.
it is hoped, may not be improper to bro
mulga'e. Your motives are nol question:
ed. Seeing. rs you no doubt did, through
veil diInly, with the real facts not patent
because most p' ople are apt TO look
merely at the SUI, CRITICAL apr earance of
pnblic aft hrs, you dashed off your article
upon the view presented by the chairman
IF the naI ket- house committee. Iouas-
sumo. which is admitted. that the market
house ordinance. if en- 'Orced. i; sufficient
for all the purposes intended. But we
are told II has not been. and that the city
council, suddenly awakened to the fact,
has 'dt tcrmined TO commence enforcing
the Oriina ce on the list of March, e,
And you add: fine CITY. with her pres
ent depleted treasury. i. wise III looking
after such matters" The inquiry natural
~ arises: Why has. mot this important Or
dlnance been here ofUre enforced? There
is an officer in the city government whose
special duty il j. - See that the ordnan-
sare daily executed. The council, Inch.
by charter, is q mere legislative body. and
can legitimately be nothing else, has in
this matter, it seems, done Its duty but,
on account of a fault somewhere, you tell
us that after the LIST of March this merely
legislative body is going 10 assume eXecu-
tive functions? While there is some OBJ
tuscatOn as to the manner i'll which these
ten men, e Their as body or individually,
intend to exercise this assum, d executive
power still it is rctr, sling to know that
the city laws are to be, as they ought to
have been, duly executed. But, to come
to the marrow OF this matter: Can you
realize that all this talk about increase d
reIt> from the market-hOuSe relieving our
"dcpletcd treasury" is is unreal and ilu-
cory as the baselesS fabric of a vision !?
nat matters 1t to the taX-paN ers Of this
city whether the receipts of the market
house incre.se or decrease? Not one cent
derived from that source ever did. nor
probably ever will, go into the city
treasury. 1t never has been, and
ne re lie no reasonable probability
that it will he, SOU ce ofrsyenuc to the
t. ~. The fIct is the city has no marke.-
ciouse. 1t has for the present the nomi-
hal control OF the building, ami through
the operations of its Observation-Disclosures
ed laws, 1t merely has accomplished two
objects, and two only: 1t protects a grind
ing monopoly Of three or tour persons or
firms, who di.h out poor bul-beet at an
enormous prof., even if we have the
charity TO conclude that we get good Cos
pei weight; and the money arising from
rents goes monthly TO the hcldtrs of
Ia &c debt against the bu lding. and it is
tair to infer that not much mo c than the
arcru ing interest is met; so that that the
principal OF the debt is very little il any
reduced. This debt is Ole of the best and
SurCst investments to the holders i'll
the city. They get just about
enough rents to pay the y per cent inter
est on the debt, and, il now in Il short
- - = ..aI.I l,,h oh il
never will he).thc house and lots revert 10
the CT dilor> absolutely, thus leaving the
city with the bag to hold. am not com
p.ainn@; the creditors are not to b'ume-
such is The Contract. Let it be infprccd
and the sooner they get the market
house and We are forced back to the GOOD
9 Ill dOc;rire OF free trade and ,ior>
rights" probably the better for the y, o
PIE, But TO pro est against the prnmul-
CATION oi tie false idea that the market
house rents in any wise pilrct our de
rlr'cd treasury let the public know the
tue state OF the case
WADE WINTHROPE.