Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-08
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The oDaiIy Herald,,
SATURDAY. MARCH s., 1880.
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The HERALD does not propose to 60
into Mysteries, lose its good sense and
good manners, scold like a baud, call
good people bad names in its lack of
logic, and tell untruths to prevent any
imaginable result in the vote on the
sewer bonds. 1t recognizes the fact that
many good men are in favor of all these
bonds, that many such are opposed to
them all, while others favor one and are
sgainst others of the three propositions.
It recognizes the fact that men have
perfect right TO take any honest view of
the situation, and that the mass of the
voters will vote both honestly and intel
ligently. We regard our function in this
matter as one of reasoning with intelli.
gent readers and not of pandering to the
tastes of the boodiers by calling their
betters hard names.
As to the Industrious, provident and
peaceable laboring men. it would be a
delight to let go'of all other considera-
tions and advocate their interests alone
to the exclusion of all others. In point
Of fact that is the policy of the HERALD.
That has been its policy and will be it's
policy. We do not care baubee for
the taxes the extremely rich and really
we'll to do shall have to pay. They are
able to pay all they will be called upon
for. But there is large class of
men of very moderate means whose in
terests are lost sight of and even sacri-
feed at every turn by the present
city government. 1t is not mat
ter OF politics. 1t is some
thing men of all politics are inter-
ested in. There are as many patriotic
Republicans in this city who will see
that the present ring are retired from
political life next fall, as there are Dom.
ocrats who wish to see their party re.
turned to power. Therefore men of both
parties will unite to keep out of tn Q
hands of the ring the means of re- cleo
tion. If the interior system fails to carry
it will be because of the votes of these
citizens, augmented by the votes of those
who will veto even the interior system
bonds, because they think the SO wer
system is too closely and unnecessarily
connected with the outfall sewer.
Now, once more as to the interests of
the laborers who are out of employment.
There is no doubt that if the interior
system is built, and the lateral sew
ers to connect with them, and the house
connections made with the laterals, there
will be plenty of work for all. Home
labor will reap more benefit from this
than if all the bonds are voted and the
whole great undertaking rushed through
at once. If there are bonds to the
amount of 81 SOC, 900 voted, the contracts
will be secured by outside contractors,
the work will be done by the cheapest
sort of imported labor, they will be fed
upon imported goods, and neither the
resident laborer nor the resident mer-
chant will gain anything by it all.
Bot getting to the real point at issue,
the merits of the storm water drains and
the outfall sewer, which is the question
of their necessity, then the extravagant
ring and the advocates of all their extrava-
CANT plans have not foot to stand on.
They have no case in court. If these
bonds carry at all, it will be simply be-
cause of the indifference of those terrible
Shylocks, the taxpayers who are repre-
sented as cutting the traditional pound
of assk daily from about the heart OF
every poor man in the city. AS matter
of fact, these large taxpayers seem to
us to be extremely lacking in enthusi-
asm in che matter of taking care
of their own interests. 1t looks now as
if there was good deal of danger that
the whole thing might 60 by default. 1t
certainly may unless there is some con-
certed action taken to prevent it.
We think it would be extremely
foolish to allow such thing
to take place, but do not propose
to allow our temper to be ruffisd nor our
rhetoric made turgid to such degree as
to howl ourselves red in the face calling
these people hard names. If it
is the desire of the taxpayers
to stand quietly by while the ring
takes the hides off their backs, the horns
with the hide and the hooves to follow
the horns, why 80 be it. 1t is their right
to do 30, if it be their pleasure.
We think we are pretty patriotically
Democratic. But if it be the will of that
distinguished party in it's members in
this city, and through the official acts of
its representative bodies as we'll as
through the direct acts of individuals to
declare and make the declaration good,
that none of them tor themselves or for
their party friends care cent for the
local offices or the emoluments thereof,
10 be that, too. But will taxpayers and
politicians of either party outside the
ring do this?