The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-06-14
Tax Payer on Bond Issue.

Tax Payer on Bond Issue.
Mr.. EDITOR With your permission,
l will commit my first offense of airing
my opinion in public print. I wonld
not do it now, except that I consider the
question non.political and of vast i'm.
portance. allude to the issuance of
bonds for water works purposes.
1t is of grave importance, and will
have much to do with the future OF our
city. differ materially from those sore
head friends who have opposed the is.
sue. ] have devoted some time to a
study of the facts, so that / might ex.
press intelligentlya a fair minded opinion.
shall not offer such logical reasons
as the following, which has appeared in
print 81 have all the water I want"
He who offers such selfish reason, i'm
pliedly, doesn't care whether his neigh.
Dor suffers or not
If we were to place ourselves on record
before the outside business world as de.
feating the operation of our water works
for the lack of $4,000, it would be to
perpetuate our natural manufacturing
disadvantages. 1t is generally known
that our supply of water is wofully in.
adequate for manufactures.
The Ohio Chair Company lay idle sew
eral months last fall and winter for
want of water.
Evans u Mcclure are at an outlay OF
small fortune yearly for water. The
greater part Of last summer they hauled
their supply from Moberly's branch.
Our livery stables haul water or 60 to
Jackson Spring, to water their horses.
Are these facts encouraging to the
capitalist looking for favorable location
in direct connection with Cincinnati l
am, to the largest degree, in favor of
every inducement that will encourage
that back bone of the United States, sue.
cess.
Then, again, won't investors land
shouldn't our own citizens) consider our
fire protection Look at the very serious
blows we have received at the hands
of confagation, in the last few years.
The loss our citizens have sustained in
few years would have built US a sys.
tenn Of water works.
What lost US our first Chair Factory !;
Boyd's Flour and Richards Feed Mills,
and our splendid College? Wasn't it the
lack of sufficient water supply? Can
We not consider ourselves very lucky
that fire has not reached our business
blocks? We are very unfortunate in not
having Board of Trade or some general
business organization, to urge the i'm.
portance of water supply. We should
look At it in tho light of a plain bust.
ness transaction.
We are paying taxes on $4,000, and
will continue to do 80, whether we re.
ceived any benefit from the works or
not. Add $4,000 to the plant /; place it
in good running condition so it may
benefit every individual in our town,
not only from the use of water, but, that
the plant may be a means of not only
sustaining itself, but may help provide
a revenue that will 60 towards the
liquidation of the Indebtedness. There
by it will cost the tax payer as small or
even smaller rate of taxation than we
should pay if the water works stand still.
1t is no experiment it is plain business
issue.
What better practical business men
with such characters for honesty could
be gotten to manage the disposition of
money, than John McCoppin, 1. H.
Quinn and w. II. Head?
| Vote and lend every assistance toward
the success of our water works.
! TAX PAYER.