San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-28
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

The people, the common, ordinary,
genteel, intelligent people of our city
would like to know how 1t Is that the
city council deliberately order the
city collector to pay Mr.. Breckenridge
back all his city taxes after being
paid in by his agent, Mr.. Ferd. Hertf.
1t seems that Mr.. Herff, who is city
treasurer, also one of the officers of
Mr.. Brackenridge's bank has been the
man who always pays the taxes of
the concern to the city collector, and
that he did so this year as usual.
When Col. B was offering his prop
erty to the city for the snug sum Of
two millions. he included two origin
al city lots on the river, which the
assessor assessed at So, 600 this
helped to make the property look big.
These same lots paid taxes last year
but this year the Col. kicked, and
and claimed them outside the city
limits.
But Ferdinand Hertf had paid the
taxes aud how was the money to be
gotten back. The ordinary, decent,
intelligent taxpayer would have peti-
toned the city council to correct his
assessment. Not so with the clty's
banker. He simply wrote letter to
the mayor to the effect that he want
ed the whole amount of his taxes re-
turned to Hertf.
The mayor ordered the city council
to order the collector to pay the
money back, and he did so. just as II
no money had ever been paid into the
city treasury. Now the Col. sits In
Fern Ridge and spits between his
fingers at the city government.
The mayor forgot all about the city
| attorneys opinion that the only way
| was to draw q warrant for the amount
1T was just-"Mr Rische you pay
that money back and use your eraser
on the city books to wipe out the
| transaction"
OF course Col. B. owes his taxes
| just the same, but he wont pay them
until he gets ready and the city as
SCISSOR takes out those ninety. six acres
and of course this remaI kable tax
transaction will be considered by
every decent, Intelligent, common
ordinary taxpayer as an impossible
occurrsnce. Nothing that is thorough.
ly illegal or preppsterOus, is impos-
| oihla MANOR 10 Ilonh and his
"ten."
| Intelligent men who read our only
morning daily newspaper, comment
upon the ignorance displayed In its
| columns in connection with its inCon.
sisten cies upon political matters. Ig
norance is q crime, when perpetrated
by public Journal, because it as
sumes to be the public educator of tn,
masses. Inconsistency is a politica
offence.
In the Express of Thursday, under
the head of MEN for Congress-" thu
writer shows that he does not know
that congressman are elected every
two years, and he wants Col. Wright
to wait four years to become scquaint
ed with the voters of the district.
|
Even the 18th congressional dis
trict is unknown to the Express man
he makes Tom Psschsl very popular
in Uvalde county which is in Cranes
district.
But worse than all, the Express
which is a strong republican protec
ton paper lis not aware that there is a
single republican in this district.
Ifthe protection policy of the re.
publican party Is the real policy for
| the best interests OF this district, and
not the free trade policy set forth in
tho damooratin nIatfOrm and AdVOcat.