San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-05

best for our credit, as corporation, TO
| avoid the making of any more oonueu
| debt or increasing the tax burdens OF the
/ people; that a policy of retrenchment and
| strict economy will better serve to relieve
! our city of financial difficulty than by
plunging deeper into debt.
Third-That we are willing to go to any
reasonable length In voting bonds for any
| needed public improvements, as posterity
will share the benefits thereof, but we
deem the proposition to saddle poSterlty
with bonded debt to pay our current eX-
penses as monstrous and unjustifiable
and unparalleled in the history of cities.
Fourth-That we have full faith in the
solvency of our community, its ability 10
meet in the future as in the past, every
public obligation, and our opposition TO
this measure is based upol our desire to
protect the credit and good name OF our
CITY.
Fifth-That the full extent Of the credit
of our city will be required to secure
| loans to make permanent improvements
and the use of our credit to produce a
surplus of cash in our city treasury is
destructive of our credit to that extent.
SiXth-That we favor"a pay as you go''
policy, but denounce the clap-trap policy
Of borrowing money on bonds to do it
with.
Seventh-That there is no real necessi-
ent city administration decide that they
cannot longer carry on the city govern
ment without issuing bonds to pay daily
expenses let them resign their trust back
into the hands of the people.
Eighth-We call upon our fellow tax
payers to organize and take an earnest
interest in this question in order that 1t
may not go by default because of indif-
ference or neglect on the part of those in
tereSted.
Mr.. Robert Summerlin moved that this
body 60 into permanent organization to be
kept up during the campaign for the pur
pose of defeating the bonds. 1t was then
moved and carried that committee of
twenty four, consisting Of three members
from each ward, be appointed by the chair
| for THIS purpose.
Henry B. galloway was introduced by
the chairman as one who represented the
bone and sinew of the workingmen of San
Antonio. He thought he saw storm
arising and noticed that in this PROPOSE
ton the rate of interest was enormously
high. Something must be loose, some
thing must be lax. He thought the people
who elected this administration had got
sick and tired Of their financial policy.
He wanted them to explain what they
had done with money previously voted
them before they were voted more. He
thought the debt owed the San Antonio
National bank an illegal one that could
not be collected If the citizens protested.
He attacked the street improvements and
said scrapers had to be used to keep the
were worse mud holes after they were
paved than before. He attacked the
mayor for having proposed to buy the
waterworkS for $1,000, 600, and declared
that il he had done his duty he would
have declared the contract with the COM
pany null and void. He said that the
administration were threatening that
the water would be shut off, the gas shut
of, that we could have no police protec-
we voted for these bonds, but he declared
that we would have these things for we
would retire the administration.
Robert Summerlin then addressed the
meeting briefly, and exhorted his hearers
to discuss the matter everywhere and to
work for the defeat of the bonds. He said
that with a double assessment upon us
the rate of taxation is still piling up. He
said the administration no more had the
interests OF San Antonio to heart than he
had the instincts of something foreign to
his nature. He criticised the pretended
improvements" in this city. He hoped
the people would sink so deep this propo-
sition to saddle another $3.50, 900 of debt on
the city that the present administration
The chairman announced the following
campaign committees for the various
wards:
First. P. Kline. James Stone and S.
Fest, Sr.
Secondly. B. Johnson, H. Walters and
M. c. Schiner.
Third-George w. Russ, John Fest and
w. b. Wright.
Fourth-George NJ. Gordon, Maj Kear-
| ney and N. Underwood.
Fifth-William Hoefing, Sr., Mr.. VIM.
| Nixon and Hans l.. Degener.
Sixth-W. b. galloway, B. ]. Mauer-
| mann and Ben KiolbasSa.
Seventh-C. Runge, Fl. G. Miller and
| James Wahrenberger.
Elghth-A. F. WuIff, Albert Stoves and
Edgar Schramm.
Robert Summerlin moved that meet
| ings be held in the various wards on Sat-
| urday night, and that mass meeting for
| the whole city be held in Convention hall
Monday night. The motion carried
| The meeting then adjourned and the
memb ers of the campaign committe pres
ent held short session in the hall, at
| which it was resolved to hold meeting of
| the full committee at Rische's theatre
Wednesday night.