Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-25
THE BONDS DOOMED.
The Taxpayers Opposed to
the Plan.
THINKING PEOPLE INTERVIEWED
Few Found FavOriDg the Doodle
BallOna Bonds Among the
Intelligent.

The HERALD, when the sewer question
came to the front, interviewed large
number of the m ost intelligent people of
the city in order to reach some understand
ing both as to the popularity and as to the
merits of the cheme to be voted on
when the last day of this month arrived.
So fair were these expressions of opinion,
and so evenly divi ded did popular opin-
ion seem to be that the organs who were
"for the sewer or bust" did this journal
tho compliment of copying many of the
statements that made for their side. A
month has passed and the air has been
full Of sewer gas during all the heated
term-that is, talk on the SUBJ
ject has been the most pronounced
sound heard in the land. The
papers have attracted no end of atten-
ton to the matter, and columns and
broadsides pro and con have gone forth
day by day and week by week. The
HERALD has given much favor to both
sides of the debate in order that its
readers might get all the light to be had
to guide them in casting an intelligent
vote. This week closes the campaign,
and it is proposed here to take up the
line of interviews offered in order to de-
fermine how the public pulse is beating
likely to be found when expressed
at the ballot. boxes next Satur-
day. Here follows a list Of short
interviews taken as the others were at
hap-hazard on the street, the reporter
stopping no man the bent of whose mind
was already known to him. If the pub.
lie generally stand as these voters do,
then the funds are already as dead as
mutton.
G.. W. KERoN.
G. w. Keron, whose business brings
him into close contact with a very large
number of people, was asked how he
stands on the bond question. He re-
piled that he is opposed to them that he
has always been opposed to them, and
that he finds many who were in favor of
them now changing their minds
them. In East Los Angeles and
on Boyle Heights the feeling
is very gen orally sntagonistic to the
bonds. The same is true Of those who
live between Main street and the river.
The storm water drains are an unpopular
feature in the proposition and so is the
Ballona route.
CHARLES PATTERSON.
Charles Patterson, of East Los Ange.
les, fully confirms these views as to his
part of the city. He says there will be
an actual majority of the votes in Eas
Los Angeles which will vote "no" nexi
Saturday.
Mr.. M'KAY.
Mr.. Mckay, q real estate dealer on The
East Side, thinks there will be heavy
vote there against the bonds. He say
there are great many poor people there
mechanics and even laborers, who owl
q house and lot. These find il
very difficult to pay taxes az
they are now and they do not propose tc
vote themselves into an extravagant and
useless scheme which will add 25 cents 9
year to their tax es, and then force them
to spend 500 house for laterals and
connections. They cannot afford to dc
this all at once.
z. c. ROBERTS.
E. G. Roberts said he would vote "no'
ON tfe bonds. If the proposition fol
sewers came in the right way, he would
be one of the first to vote Eyes" He
said as he found public opinion, the tax
payers are all opposed to the scheme
and that the bonds cannot carry.
H. t. NEWELL.
III. 7. Newell said he would be com.
pslled tolvote "no" as the proposition is
now put. He is in favor of sewers and
favored this plan at first; but when il
came to be discussed he found so many
and so valid objections raised that he
changed his mind. He says nearly all
the people he comes in contact with are
opposed to the plan proposed. He says
he has talked with the laboring people,
who say that great many of them have
not voted for the past few years unless
they were paid. and that unless they are
paid this time they will not leave theil
work. nor even take the trouble to vote,
Mr. Newell thinks the bonds will be de-
feated.
F. NJ. o'DEA.
F. M. O'Des has not quite made up hil
there will go abroad bad,impressior
and produce bad effect at the East i
the bonds are voted down. II he were
sure another and better plan than ths
proposed would be submitted soon be
would vote mo" next Saturday, as be
sees grave objections to the proposed
plan. He does not approve of spending
SO much money on the storm-watel
drains, and he thinks all the sewage
might be used for irrigation.
NJ. p. SNYDER.
M. P. Snyder, real estate agent, sale
that he was opposed to the bonds as the
proposition now stands. He finds mos
of the people where he lives, along An.
gelefio Heights, are of the same mind
In his opinion the bonds will fail tc
carry by great deal. Some are afraid
to vote mo" on this plan, because ite
friends tell them if this is voted down nj
other proposition will be submitted. Mr.
Snyder is strongly in favor of demand
ing more popular plan at once. HI
thinss such thing will be forthcoming.
DIR. NJ. HAeAN.
DIR. M. Hsgap, formerly Health OF
ficer of Los Angeles, said in reference t.
q report in morning paper that
great deal of diphtheria exists in the city
that he did not find it 30. He said, more
over, that sewers would not lessen, but
would rather tend to increase this dis
ease. OF course in the center of the city
he recognizes the necessity of sewers
but in less deneely populated portions o
towns, the health of the people is univer
sally better before sewers are put in thar