San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-06
Don't Injure the City and Your
selves, Taxpayers.
To the LIGHT:


whether San Antonio, with its POP
ulation OF $4,000, is to have sewer
age, or whether she is to go with
out it for years to come, through
the narrow and blind spirit of fac
tionism. 1t is noteworthy and
most telling fact, that those, now
so hotly and Unexpectedly fight
ing the sewer proposition from am
bush, and on the flank, and will
sappers and miners, were rampan
for sewers in 1890 or 81, and were
keen to pay 100000 for the
water works, as a preliminary tC
! sewers. They have all at once i'm
itated "Jim Crow and flung q
! sOmersault on a dead level. This
remark applies to the leaders of the
opposition to sewers and to the
tribe of cuckoos held in leash by
| them. They are acting without
rhyme or reason, and blindly fol-
lowing their leaders, but they are
intlicting serious injury on San
Antonio and her citizens by oppos-
ing sewerage. am informed that
some of those who voluntarily
signed a petition to the mayor and
council in favor of sewers and
pledging themselves to support the
sewer proposition, have suddenly
developed retrorainget qualities
and avow their determination
to vote against sewerage.
What caused them to affiX their
names to the petition? Did they
sign it in good faith and honesty,
or were they only endeavoring to
"Carry water on both shoulders"
Backbone is rather scarce article.
The tax payers can carry or de-
feat the sewer proposition. What
will the property owners do? VIII
they be content to play the ignoble
part of tools and cat'spaws Of am
bilious, selfish and wire-work-
ing politicians, solely intent on
their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and
cast their votes contrary to their
own convictions, against the sew
er proposition, or will they think
and vote, as sensible, business
men, fully conscious of the respon-
resting on them, for a
measure indispensable to the
health and prosperity of San An
tonic, and which is bound to
brighten up trade,-raise the value
Of real estate-attract population
and trade and quicken our city in
to vigorous life.
Remember, that no one has had
the hardihood to openly deny the
necessity of sewers, and that this
necessity is the paramount, and
ought to be the controlling question
with level-headed and patriatIc
taxpayers having an eye single to
the welfare of San Antonio. |
warn you against injuring your
city by voting against the sewer
proposition.
You are bound to know from
your own experience and observa-
ton, always the safest guides in
all cases of doubt,-that San An
tonic has reached a stage in her
progress which renders sewerage
absolutely indispensable, and that
the defeat of the sewer proposition
will seriously injure our city. beg
you to put on your studying cap
and vote so as to promote the well
fare of your city and your individu-
al interest. AS property holders
and as business men, your indivi-
ual prosperity depends on the pros
perity of Sar Antonio. Notch this
fact in your mind, and make it
your guide, and you cannot vote
wrong. The opposition has carried
on lingo campaign against sew
ers, but have never dared to deny
that sewers are necessary.
What profit will taxpayers de-
rive, COLLECTIVELY or individually,
from the defeat of the sewer propo-
sition? How will its defeat benefit
San Antonio? Turn these
questions over in your minds;
look at them, up one side, and
down the other, disdain to vote to
please selfish and wire pulling lead
ers, and let your vote represent
your own convictions, on the sewer
proposition. Is this asking too
much of intelligent property hold
ers? l do not so consider it. pay
the property holders OF San Anto-
MO the compliment of regarding
them as level-headed and rejecting
men. 1 may be wrong, but nothing
can change me except the short
sighted action Of the taxpayers
themselves, in defeating sewerage
at the mere bidding of wire pulling
and selfish politicians, who have an