San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-09
SHORT STOPS.

vices.
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.
IBY Col. JAS. p. NEwCOMB.I
The question of sewerage will
soon be presented to our taxpay-
ers. Every phase of this question
has been thoroughly discussed for
the past few years, and the people
are as well prepared now as they
will ever be to decide it.
Our people must brace up; it is
worse than folly to give way to the
general despair that pervades every
department of trade and commerce.
Our city must be pushed forward.
We must make it the most desira-
BILE city in Texas.
The fact that our particular Sec
ton suffers from drought; that our
city is cut short in its trade and
business by the operation of DEM
ocratic legislation in congress,
should be a greater incentive to
energetic action on the part of our
people.
San Antonio is famed as a pleas
ant, healthy city, reputation that
is worth millions to us. We lack.a
system of sewers, to be able to
maintain this reputation. The fact
that we have no system OF sewers
has been a great drawback in the
past and will be greater draw
back in the future.
Our city has the credit upon
which to build these sewers, let
the taxpayers take advantage of
this now, before this credit is de-
stroyed by the same reckless ex-
penditure of money that character
lied the past.
The building of a system of sew
ers should be advocated from the
standpoint of a necessary public
improvement, which, undertaken
in a time of financial depression,
will aid our people, because it will
set in motion a large sum of
money, which will do more good
now than at any time hereafter.
The individual or public journal
that advances the argument that
we have done without sewers all
these years and can do without
them always, is simply an enemy
to the best welfare of the commun-
ity.
Our people got along without
water-works until they were built,
we got along without electric
lights until within a few years
past, we did without rapid transit
railroads, we even got along with
out ice, and travelled on horseback to
New Braunfels, but we would not,
could not get along today without
railroads, electricity, waterworks,
ice, and home beer.
We have managed to get along
without sewers, until our beauti-
full river has become foul, our
bitches open cesspools,our premises
hidden breeding spots for disease.
Our city has grown beyond the
physical possibility of cleanliness
unless some automatic system OF
sewerage is secured.
Mo- man is an alarmist because
he calls attention to the possible
visitation Of epidemics, such as
cholera. Should that dread des-
troyer once more begin his march
upon our shores, San Antonio
would be depopulated for very
fear.
And il this great public improve
ment can be inaugurated without
adding to the burden of the tax
payer, who can raise his voice
against it, except the calamity
bowling demagogue, the local
manipulation of private political
schemes, or the paid advocates of
interests interfered with by this
public benefaction.
For the good of the people, for
the safety of the people, for the
public welfare let us have sewers.
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