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

The people, that is the intelligent,
taxpaying people of our city, are
not the numbskull set that the Ex-
press would make them out to be.
The people understand that when
they are told that they can't
pay their butcher and baker bills
that it would be folly to ask them
to make liberal contributions to
public enterprises.
If our people are in such a
strapped condition as represented
by the Express then it is high
time to use our public credit and
borrow some money to secure the
necessities of life.
The people understand that it is
one of the functions of government
especially ofenlightened municipal
governments, to use the public
credit to secure the means to carry
on needful public works.
Particularly should this be done
in dull times when the laborer has
little to do, and enforced idleness
hangs like a pail over the heads of
hundreds of honest humble people.
If there ever was period when
our city was justifiable in using it's
credit to secure large sum Of
money to carry out greatly
needed public Improvement, now
is the time. We must have sew
ers, that is as inevitable as we live
in this city. The expenditure Of
| half a million dollars at this time
will give us sewers and greatly re-
lieve our financial situation.
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A great many foolish assertions
have been made to mislead the
people about this sewer question
| they have been told that they
| should wait until the hard times
blow over before they attempt to
borrow money to build sewers.
Why, the city will have to borrow
it eventually, and the debt will be
made for twenty or thirty years.
are we to wait that time to build
sewers-why, if we did many of us
will be dead and gone.
oh, we will have to pay the in
terest and sinking fund, but il will
be year or two before we will pay
a cent-are the Express calamity
times to last for a year or two
longer?
If there is single good reason
for postponing this question it has
not yet been set forth. The oppo-
nents want, so they say, to wait
until Mayor Paschal is out Of office
before we undertake to build sew
ers. Is that any good reason!
If sewers are needed, as admitted
by every one, then the sooner we
get at it the better. That we have
the plans of one of the most scien-
tific systems that is obtainable, is
admitted. That the expenditure Of
the money foy this public work
would at this fine help to bridge
over the dull fmes that have been
the result Of Democratic free trade,
which will rot last after the people
get a chance to put out the free
trade party.
Every good citizen is anxious to
do somethinAto secure the future
! prosperity of \ur city, and no enter
prise would glsO far towards that
end than a mod eru system of sew
ers. This is admitted, then the
sooner we go abSut it the better.
It's an enterpriseN hat we can under
take with borrow ed money.
We are on the e lie of other enter
prises, two important railroads are
now being projectd from our city,
provided our citizevs go down into
their pockets and e 70 to those en-
terprises liberal DID patton.
| We expect these railroads will
bring us more people, more COM
merce and more wealth; in order
that we shall bring More people
here we must make Il is city in
every particular mold IN city, fit
for people to come to, nd if we
want to keep these peopk here we
must secure them again { disease
as far as science and mod lrn insti-
buttons will do.
| If we can build a mode system