The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-04-05
Shall We Bondi

The policy of bonding Waco has
been very thoroughly discussed dur
ing the present municipal race. There
is no unprecedented observer but has
concluded ere now that vast MAJOR
ity ofthe people are opposed to the
policy, earnestly onnoaed. -bape ei J;
and they are working with
determination TO defeat the men who
are in favor of that ruinous financial
policy.
Waco wants sewers, but she don't
want them at the expense of the
credit and good name of the munich
pality.
Waco wants gas and water supplies,
but she does not want to bankrupt
herself to secure them.
Waco wants her streets graded, but
she don't want lot OF bonds in New
York which will strain her every
financial nerve year in and yea out
to pay interest and leave nothing
with which to pay her officers, or to
bless herself with.
Waco wants her streets opened, but
she wants fair financial standing as
well.
Waco wants her streets macadam-
lied, but she don't want to part with
her every interest to secure that.
Waco is in favor of paying rs she
goes, or if that isn't possible on Il
proper basis, she doesn't mean TO go
at all.
Waco would rather tumble herself
into the Brazos than be situated as is
poor old bond-ruined Houston.
Waco doesn't care much which one
Of the admirable gentlemen aspiring
to the mayorality is elected, so he is
not in favor of bonding the city for
any purpose.
Waco doesn't care much who COM
prise IL city council so the council is
opposed to bonding.
Waco is like a man of taste who Is
also honest. She doesn't mean to go
in debt for cxternals when she can do
without them.
Waco has grown from mere trading
post on the western frontier to be a
city of eighteen thousand souls. She
has gas works, water-works, a sus-
pension bridge, railroads, street rail-
roads, fine hotels, princely mercantile
establishments and all without bonded
Indebtedness. She can have sewers,
maoadamised streets and all other
good things in municipal way with
out creating a great bonded indebted
ness which will keep the city in hot
water for fifty years.
Credit is good thing when it is
not used too much, OR when we dom
have to pay too much for 1t. Bond
ing the city for one hundred thou
sand dollars for ten years at sever
per cent. is paying too much for the
whistle.
The voters of Waco are too proud tC
want to see the city fixed up fine ant
unable to pay the piper
The voters of Waco don't want tC
bond the city.
1t is all very well to have nice things
but they are "heap nicer when the!
are paid for.
The proposition to bond isn't goot
one, nor is the policy of exciting tn
apprchensions of the people on the
score OF epidemics TO force them int
that line ofaction, good one.
Vote only for men known to be op
posed to bonds.
Vote only for honest men who re
fuse to make sp!urgc on borrowed
capital.
Vote away for men who propos,
that the city live within its income a
individuals do, or should do.
The city of Waco ought to have onl.
the good things she can pay for.
A man can ride in fine carriag,
for which he is in debt, and som
kinds of men eau really enjoy tina
sort of thing; Waco is "forninst
that sort OF thing,
Vote against the pro-bond men.
Vote against bonds.