The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-24
The Voter Need Not he in Doubt.

The voter at the forthcoming election will
be burdened and confused with a multiple
fly Of ballots and, as usual, schools of in
struction in the correct method Of folding
them are necessary. These are established
for ignorant and uneducated citizens more
especially but past experience with the
new tangled system proves that many Of the
citizens who are supposed 20 he the most in
telligent need the schooling not less. Vot-
ing has become complicated business, diff
hcult to learn and annoying.
The blanket paster, fortunately, relieves
the voter Of large part OF this unnecessary
trouble and saves him from confusion 40
far as concerns the candidates for office
He has merely to get the genuine Demo-
cratic paster and stick 1t on one OF the bal
lots. So. also, as regards the rapid transit
ballot. he need he in no doubt He has only
to hand in the No ballot. II he is a sensible
man he cannot be humbugged by such a
proposition. The more he Is in favor Of
rapid transit the more reason there is for
him to vote against scheme which is sure
to delay indefinitely its provision.
Even II majority OF the voters be delud-
ed into approving the project, the chances
that it will he carried out are few. IL is not
probable that the tunnel will ever he built,
and. in any event, even the beginning of its
construction would be long delayed by
legal opposition. II this obstacle were
overcome, the progress OF the excava-
ton would be slow, and II the road
were completed in ten years those most
competent to judge Of the peculiar dif-
hculties in the way Of such an undertaking
on this island would be surprised. 1t is not
q rapid transit project. It Is a project to
make an enormously costly experiment,
with which private capital has refused alb
solutely TO have anything to do, and upon
which, rs a last resort, an attempt is now
made to wheedle the people into expanding
the public money.
This outrageous scheme was devised by
the Chamber OF Commerce, or with its con-
nivance, yet there Is not a single member Of
that body who would put a single cent Of
his own money into 1t. II 1t were laid be-
fore any one Of them as a serious proposition
that he should invest any Of his own money
in any undertaking on similar condi-
tions, he would look on the proposer
as little short OF lunatic, for
the city Is to take all risk, put up all the
money, and then give the benefit Of the
use Of the franchise to the private individ-
uals TO whom it lends its credit for the con
struction OF the road, and is itself TO have
nothing to say as to the enterprise. IL is to
be allowed to pay the bills, but that is all
Under such circumstances the bills will
OF course, be big. The amount OF money
20 DO supplied by the city is limited
10 $4,000, 900 as beginning, but how
much it will be at the end no one can guess
The experience OF all such undertakings in
dicates that it will be much more. The
scheme is under the control of highly repu-
table citizens, il is said. but their elevation is
NO higher than that OF the men in the
Panama Canal scheme.
Vote against it Don't allow yourself to
be humbugged by such an imposition!