The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-23
DRAIN AGE.
a Citizen Takes Issue with the
Views Expressed by
Waco

10 me e bdWeHcF
have observed for several days arti-
cles in your paper on drainage of the city,
and, with view more to keep the subject
warm and before the people than to say
ing anything new, beg the privilege of
pointing out few objections to the plnn
proposed by Waco" in your last issue.
LIST. The expense of such system OF
improvement as Waco" suggests would
fall directly upon the property holders,
and especially upon those whose prop
erty was directly benefited and i'm
proved. While the sentiment OF our
city government has ever been more in
clined to initiate our infamous state
road law, which makes the poor man,
who gets comparatively no benefits, and
the rich, that reap it all, pay alike an
equal amount of taxes to keep up the
public roads, while it entirely exempts
those who, as class, are wealthier, and
those who get the greatest benefits from
the roads.
I'd. The suburban population, who get
none OF the benefits of city government.
except to pay taxes, would be deprived
Of the privilege of contributing to tho
improvements in more favored localities.
Sd. Taxpayers in all neglected por-
tons Of the town could not have the
honor OF paying for improvements in
those localities where the int est or
favor OF those who have the dispensa-
ton of public funds might dictate. Old
| citizens will doubtless remember where
several streets have been travelled and
lmprov d as soon as certain officials
acquired property on them, and at least
one independent comp tency NAV be
pointed out as the result of this wise
and Just system of making the many
pay for the benefits of the few, and
some unfortunate individual might be
deprived of repeating the history OF
those who have gone before.
4th. The money raised by "Waco's'
plan could not be appropriated to any
thing but street work, and that. too, for
the street Immediately in front of the
property on whicl it is raised, the conn
oil and officers would be denied the
discre ionary dispensation OF a large
amount of funds, and deprived of cor.
responding amount of pickings. "Waco'
should have learned. that in this day
and time, that it is most for the pub
lie good which is most to the
benefit of the officers pocket
Hence an additional tax is mnct
more desirable than the obsolete anG
| Old-fogy plan he proposes.
9th. Were each property holder pay
ing for the improvements in front of his
property, those i'll charge OF public
works might besforced to listen to The
prayers of such owners For instance
last year, when the wise Solons, who
planned that great work, had the black
mud dragged up ont of the bitches am
piled IN the centre Of Fifth and Eight
streets, despite the protests of property
holders, and those beautiful and wei
graveled thoroughfares converted int,
quagmires, had the WORK been done OF
Waco's" plan, these presumptious
property holders might have refused t.
pay for the damage done to the property
There are other and equally serious
objections to "Waco's" suggestions, but
T the present We withhold them. Will,
the reasons for an incr, ased taxation
are too patent to need discussion befor.
30 intelligent population az ours anG
the ineffable beauties Of high taxes anG
large sums to squander by the city
fathers, must be seen and appreciated by
all your readers. CITIZEN.