The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-06

this Is nothing 10 the loss will meet at
some future time if the CITY does rot i'm
prove tue mains Add fifty men. if you
please. 70 the fire department; it will not
add 10 the efficiency in this respect. for
.ney cannot squeeze water out of the mains
II IL Is not there, any more than the present
Iorce can. Now, in relation to taxing real
property and personal property the
same: Lawyers do not deuy that
placed the true construction upon the
article OF the constitution, namely, that it
authorizes the charging of different rates
upon different classes of property. The
only point is that Judge Bleckley cannot
see IL That way. He appears to know better
IMAM the author OF the article what its true
meaning Is. The aldermen, for some reason,
appear TO be determined to construe the
tnlng the same way-without making any
effort to set things right. Probably if mat
ters were presented in their true light to
Judge Bleckley his decision might be re-
versed. The trouble in relation to taxing
and assessing the class of property
represent is that there is TO
proper person in council to represent
and protect the class of property own. aud
consequently council runs roughshod over
1t. The gentleman says it is so easy to find
Iauit; why not suggest practical remedies?
l suggested a humber of practical remedies,
but ne takes no notice of my arguments,
but simply attempts to ridicule me and
hasten upon me false imputation that
propose to steal water without paying for it.
| having stated distinctly i'll my article that
L proposed to pay $3.50 per annum for
water. His statement, therefore, is an IN
warrantable slur, made to conceal the
weakness of his argument-made upon the
largest water-taker in the city. The sug-
gestlons made had an object more i'm
portant to me than fault-hndng. To
impress upon council the necessity of i'm
proving the mains-as | look for heavy loss
to myself and the general public if some
thing Is not done Next, l gave what
knew to be the true Interpretation of the
constitution, and | gave Judge Bleckley
the credit of being inspired with
the virtue of Sir Matthew Hale. 1t prob
ably only needs his attention to be called TO
the matter probably, and something might
be done. have had long experience with
aldermen; one seldom gets ones rights by
submission. If l only owned one mouse it
would pay better to submit But as | am
situated it will pay better to fight; and [
will not submit to the levying an illegal tax
upon my property-not if it is l cent in
stead of 81 cents. In conclusion, the gen
tleman has made no reply to the important
question as to why increase our taxes if
they are living within their income In
fact, | am told by one of their members
that there is no necessity to in crease their
taxes either this year or next. Neither does
he say whether they propose to insist upon
illegal taxation. Moreover, it is not only
in new parts of the town the protection is
deficient. There are streets in Yamacraw
that council has been talking about putting
pipes in for thirty years. and have not done
it yet. These properties have borne the
burden of taxation for themselves and to
improve the new parts of the town for the
last 100 years. Let US have
JUSTICE