San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-30

that will be the biggest loss in it,
and all of the bonn bast about rem
dering the air unhealthy from the
emptying of the sewers; and they
emptied four miles below town,
and these low suits arriving from
damaged property, remind me of
an American ship builder refusing
to launch his ship in American
waters because there are reefs in
the English channel or the railway
trains tying up because the COW
catcher threw COW out of the way
and the company had to pay for her.
Now about the board of business
men. Why, everyone named are
owners either of a bank and ranch
or bank and a railroad, or two
ranches; and when you go to talk
to them why everyone tells you
that he has his own affairs to at
tend, at lest two out of three will {;
and the next question will be, if
you wanted me TO attend to the
business of the city, why did you
not elect me when you had an Op-
portunity? Now, my friends, the
increase of taxation is nothing
when you have money to pay your
taxes, and work is what you want
to get that money, and the plan
subjected is a wise and judicious
one. Talk about taxation; why
these businessmen give away
twice yes thrice the amount of in
crease in taxes keeping these soup
kitchens and the sewer system
might be put in operation and men
allowed to make an honest living
while standing around a soup
kitchen. These soup kitchens are
all right; they have done an i'm
mense amount of good, but men
prefer enjoying the privilege Of at
least feeling that they are earning
what they are getting; and but
very few negroes hang around
these soup kitchens; and God grant
that they may be so opulent that
they may never have need
to do so. An honest days
work for fair days wages is the
cry from my people and then they
can feed wife and children as we'll
as self, and thereby keep the wolf
from the door. Give us an oppor-
tunity to invest our legacy, which
is sinews and hard muscle, is the
cry from my people, and let us
earn our own bread, and we will be
an independent people! These are
our sentiments, if / read your
countenance Alright. Then let us
have sewers. Let us vote the half
million and go into the market on
fair footing with other cities to
exchange our valuable building
lots for the good old yellow ore
piled up in northern banks.
Let us vote and make five hun
dred hearts glad because thous-
and horny-hands will be permitted
to seize the pick and shovel, and
for so doing come home on Satur-
day nights to bring back the smile
of prosperity to the trusting wife
and to loving babes. And instead
of so much time taken to reckon
dDOub WUoUu6T we Will nave SeW6IS
or not, we will invite these agita-
tors just to spend few minutes in
visiting the INDECENT poor and find
out something about the suffering
and want the laboring classes are
undergoing and every mouth will
be closed.
The speech was received with loud
and prolonged applause and the
following resolution adopted:
Whereas, we are confronted with
a financial stringency, and whereas
we believe the laboring classes will
be benefited by voting the sewer
proposition,
Therefore, be it resolved that we
do here and now agree to support
the proposition for sewers and also
use our influence to have the propo-
sitiOn carry. ). 5. IRWIN,
H. A. ELLIS, Chairman.
Secretary.