San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-19

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the same time afford more ability
to take care of the sick and unfor-
tunate.
The saving of $22,26O for street
lights is another feather in the hat
of the present city administration.
Our morning paper denounces this
as "hold up" on the Gas company.
So it seems that every effort to re-
duce the heavy expenditures of the
city must be denounced as high
way robbery, and every attempt to
improve the efficiency of the city
government by adding the extra
employment of competent man to
superintend public work is GRIM
inal extravaganza. The intelligent
people cannot be easily deceived or
controlled by such denunciations,-
no matter if they do come from
our great religious, Democratic
morning paper.
The mayor regrets that larger
amount cannot be set aside for our
street department, because of the
fact that we are still confronted
with a large amount of old floating
debt, and we must be just to our
creditors before being too generous
to ourselves. But Notwithstanding
this it appears that $34, 1924 have
been expended on our streets dur
ing the past year, drawn from
the general fund, as there
was only left of the 100000
raised from the issue of
bonds for street purposes, by past
administrations, the sum of flour
dollars and thirteen cents" for the
present city administration to
work on.
1t is the first year for a long
time, that the city has been run
without the issue Of single bond.
No new debt has been added, but
much of the old debt paid off.
Oh, but this amounts to nothing,
say the critics of the present adj
miDistration, you have made no
new debt, you have paid off old
debt, you have reduced eXpen-
ditures, and you have actually
kept up the big establishment dur
ing hard times, but you committed
the crime of employing a compe-
tent man superintendent of public
works! .,e. ~ gS,s.s. -,g,s,..,
The mayor discusses the ques-
ton of public movements in
lucid and forcible way and points
out how the city can undertake
improvements that will yield a
profit to the people and how street
improvements can be made posi-
BILE without resorting to the issue
of bonds and entailing of a bonded
debt that. will blight the future of
our city.
B o.
The mayor discusses the water
question and suggests the restora-
ton of the revenue from markets,
and these suggestions should be
given a careful and impartial con-
sideration by the taxpayers.
The present administration has
reduced the floating debt $54, Stab.
Oh, but you have appointed a
superintendent Of public works,
and the fact that you have been
paying off the city debt don't
count.
The purchase of a rock crusher
and machinery to prepare material
for the better improvement ofsOur
so-called McAdamiZed streets gives
hope to our citizens that whatever
work is done in the future will be
done better than in the past.
The mayors message is full of
interest to the people nOtwith-
standing the incident that our only
morning paper, after securing the
manuscript, omitted to print it in
the proceedings of the city council
and had to wait for the LIGHT to
appear before attempting to criti-
else the mayor.
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