The Progress., 1893-01-07

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In point of loud mouth professions
of friendship for the public wcal and
advocacy of questions vitally lm-
portant To the public, he Shreveport
Times is one of the most prominent
journals IN the State. - Judge by
ITS own uttorauccs what it. wouldn't
do for tho dear public the most in
vcterato tramp would ask for II
~ at once as bold IA u llou and gon-
tie ~ Il lamb. AS WIZ" ~ n serpent
and ~ gentle ~ dove" Justice de-
rivcs inspiration from It's tome. FAR.
ness lives on IT'S policy while Truth
sits onthroucd on It's uttprancCq. II
IL the journalistic Hercules Of North
Louisiana, and holds the balance
scales of equity betwccn all parties
interested, and taking part in the i'm
mems" drama donCmiuatod, The Az
fairs of Men. Viewed ON this light
then, what masterpiece Of literary
execution was lis satire on the water
works question m Hu editorial on
Thursday morning last in reply To n
correspondent signing himself Con
sumner. This was indeed n brilliant
movement, but II was So cleycrly
masked that it's identity was never
discovered, and that corporation. no
doubt, sings praises to 81 Dry that such
an able champion has risen It's de
teusc tO max" rNcusps which even the
inventive genius Of the manager
could not droam of. We say that
the editorial was intended as a sat.
ire, for assuredly public journal
like the Times, which has. numerous
Subscribers among tho patrons of the
W aierwOIks company would not so
boldly lndurss and support such un-
last demands as this corporation II
making ON it patrons. Tint article
was 80 clearly aud plainly One-sidod,
and that IN favor of the company that
but for certain Distinguishing ear
marks, Eve would be let to believe It
was written by paid attorney OF the
company who had been instructed 10
clam everything that WAS worth ask
my Tor and soWc that was not
The Times makes n very verbose
statement about what the company
WAS doing, intended to do further
and the amount of pains il was tax
ipg. to give the public better service,
without pauslng long enough to re-
fiect that their promises have been re
peatod SO often tha, an ordinary
school child Of quick memory could
repeat them all II he but tried. Ii
SAID DIR. John T. Scott said, etc. All
this has been repeated so often that
the public is tired of IT, The doctor
also offered to take THE PRoGREss
over to the works in his buggy to
show us what was being done, but on
our asking him il be intended to |
make any deduction for the failure
to supply water, he replied Il guess
not.
That is one Of the main points in
question. All fair minded people |
will overlook accidents, mishaps, etc,
but when these become too numer-
ous they cease to be excusable, es-
pecially when no allowances are
made to those who pay for good ser
vice. The Times either unconscious
ly aud purrourly diviited from the
most vital ISSUE, which is the exact
ing demands of the company for ad- |
vance water rental when it has no. |
given what it has been paid for, and
refuses to make reductions for its
own noncompliance. IL the Times
can smooth over their existing evils
it will find that none but itself and
the company will be satisfied. and
many will think that it il easily salts
fsi.
when they are not IN.
In closing we would ike to ask our
contemporary what excuse
it Will give for the company's fur
nisling such extremely muddy
water while it had pressure, and il 1t
IL aware of the fact that the contract
calls for pure, wholesome wafer
We would address this query to the
company, but it cannot
frame az glib and plaussble excuses
ss the journal referred TO, and be-
sides II is really amusing to note how
interesting some can make plain
'ophistry. |,