San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-08

"nat the feOpie are Saying.
A few brave words, unmixed with
taffy, spoken by some real genuine
wage Garner, would have been
striking feature OF the labor day ex
ercises.
The people are becoming familiar
with terms that few years back
were never uttered; with problems
new to the present generation. A
few year hence the people will look
backward over battles won for uni
versal manhood; when distinctions
betw cen men because OF class or
trade will be numbered with the ages
of bar barism.
In the clear light that is dawning,
the principle of government being OF
the people, by the people and for the
people, will be truly realized.
Now, wolves play the roll of shep-
herds,-ward politicians talk of the
lsborer's rights and wrongs; and ex-
pet to use his vote on election day.
Reform, like charity should begin
at home. San Antonio is the home of
many laboring men and women, to
govern the city; to guard it's peace;
maintain its Institutions; provide it's
inhabitants with good high
ways, with good water light,
sewerage, public schools. means of
transportation, pleasant resorts, in
fact to so conduct its affairs that it
will be what 1T is intended to be, q
pleasant, healthy, thriving home for
every one who may come here, is the
reason why we have corporate gov
eminent.
But when this corporation is run as
the personal political machine OF a
ring; when private corporations fatten
upon franchises that belong to the
people; when it fails to provide for the
comfort OF the people at the lowest
cost; when taxes are wasted in ex-
travagance, aud fsvoritism and job
berry run riot, q steady persistent
course of reform should be- begun.
Our mayor recently returned from
European trip; of course he did not
60 abroad TO observe things pertain
ing to city government, but he would
be dull man indeed if he did not see
many things in Paris, Brussels and
London that would improve his mind
and be suggestive of undertakings
for the betterment of our city.
He must have found every civilized
city he visited supplied with a sys.
tenn of sewerage; i'm most places, he
found the water the people used sup
piled by the municipality; the streets
were swept, sprinkled and kept clear
of weeds by the municipal authorities;
and even the railroads run by the
government.
But we hear very little from our
travelling mayor; ne tells q reporter
that he finds San Antonio. the clean
est, neatest, incest city he has yet
visited, and later on gives public ex-
preston to q desire to make more
park improvements.
If We are to Judge future park inn
provements by san Pedro Springs,
which is the particular pet of the ad-
ministration, 1t would be we'll to de-
fer any further park improvements
until we have city administration
that will not use the peoples money
to provide soft places for its favorites.
The expenditures on parks for
q
of which San Pedro Park
got $5,OS5 II. 1t would require
strong magnifying glass to see where
all this money has gone, if we COM
pare what has been accomplished
with S2O74 81 spent on Alamo and
Main plazas.
The best thing our Paree inning rec
can do is to have the ugly dry weeds
cut from the curb stone borders in
numerous streets; have the dust
swept off our business steets, ana
complete some of the undertakings
already begun, nOtablyCrockett street,
the bridge ordered tor this street is
rusting and 1t looks very much as If
this new street. intended as q beau
titul thorOughtare, will remain back
alley for the business houses on Com
MERGE street.
The people are not DESTROYS that
the mayor and his council shall un-
dertake any thing that will in volve
the making of any more debt. If
they will just keep the town clean,
the dirt picked up. and fl nish the I'M
dertakings already begun, hey will
be excused from any further care OF
public matters after the next election.