San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-30
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

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What the People are Saying.
The people are thoroughly alive
to the situation, and thoroughly
tired of the office holding schemers
who are putting up schemes to run
county and city politics at the ex-
pense of the people.
The county bond scheme would
never have been thought of but for
the fact that the matured schemes
of the office-holders require public
money, to be brought to perfection.
1t goes without saying that money
is considered the all essential
requisite to pull through a combi-
nation of local office holders.
Local politics in our county
have sunk far below the level Cf
party politics. Party has disap-
peared, and in it's stead, personal
and selfish interests have assumed
command.
Office seeking and office holding
has become trade and a profess
sion, and party politics only an
ornamental designation. Cues
tions of national import, the poll
cies of government, the principles
that strengthen the conscience of
the American voter are treated
with contempt, while the question
as to which local click will feed
from the public crib rises para
mount to every interest of the
people.
The ballot box is no longer look
ed upon as the medium for the eX-
preston of the voice of the people,
but as an instrument to put in
office and keep in office this or that
coterie Of local manipulatOrs. Once
in office they use their positions
and authority to circumvent the
the~terrible people.
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Some glittering scheme, to'in-
crease the public debt is flashed in
the eyes of honest vOters,-tO build
a costly court house, or to make
public roads, schemes, that prom
Use employment to the idle, and
money to the speculator, but the
real object is kept hidden in the
councils of the office holding con-
spirators.
AS long as our county corpora
ton is solvent it will be a prey to
the spectators in office and out of
office. But the people who pay the
bills once aroused, will be careful
how they fritter away their credit
and pile up debt for the future.
There has been so much disap-
pointment in securing economical
and wise administration of our To-
cal governments that a deep sus-
picion [ rests in the public mil d
regarding every proposition Of
money character.
To give a semblance of popular
approval to the last scheme pro-
posed, the road bonds, petition is
gotten up, signed, at the request
and instance Of the parties interest
ed such petition has but little
value in the eyes of the people,
they know it is simply blind ex-
cuse for using the ballot box to Sc
cure fund for future use, and
they have no confidence in the
honest application OF the money
secured upon their credit.
Good public roads are not only
desirable but should be built. To
secure good public roads requires
not only the expenditure of large
sums of money, but the applica-
ton of the best science of construc-
ton; to place sum of money in
the hands of incompetent persons
to be expended without plan or
specifications is simply a criminal
waste of the peoples cash.
The people have had enough of
this irresponsible work they know
that already there has been eXpend-
ed enough money to have paved
the principal county roads in the
most approved and lasting man.
ner; they know that the road work
done has only served as a tempo
rary eXpedient, and is not of a last
ing or permanent character. Why
should thew throw away hundreds
of thousi nds Of dollars more in tt
same way.