Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-07
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o. and N. T. MALoNEY. PuB11sHEns.
THE TOWN MEETING.


 To-niGht's town meeting will be one of the moss important ever held in Water bury. for it will practically decide whether or not the people or the ring shall rule. Without a doubt the action of the meeting will have weight with the legislative com- mittee before whom the proposed charter is to have hearing on Thursday. If the vote tonight be in favor of consolidation the politicians who have the charter in hand can go before the legislature with an argument in favor of their scheme, As things now stand they have nothing to say. Unfavorable action on the part of the town me, ting will, We believe. sound the knell of the committee. As many readers of the DEMOCRAT as can attend should be in at the death.
 The proposed consolidation will not ben- eft the city taxpaye CTS. It will not lessen their burdens one cent. Instead ot that 1t establishes new offices. creates a czsr and establishes a ring. The board of education will not be elected by the people. but by the board of aldermen. thus dIsfranchising women and men alike, who now vote for school officers The tax Tate will not be reduced because under the proposed char ter 1t is provided that the taxpayers living outside the present city limits shall pay only one-third as much as those living ia the city. Originally 1t was intended to tqualiZe taxation but the s,l,-constituted committee, in order to held the suburban taxpayers. fixed things 50 that the city fellows will pay just as much AS they ever did The town taxpayers however. have no faith in the promises made by the poli- ticians and are unanimously opposed to the whole scheme.
 Without doubt dtmagogic arguments in favor ot consolidation will he given with the expectation that gullible people will wallow them The DEMOCRAT hopes and expects that the whole scheme will fail. not because it is opposed to consolida- tion so much AS it is to the narrow and biGoted object aimed at by the charter makers.
 IF Presldent Cleveland and Secretary Gresham needed vindication for the posi- tion they took in the dispute between Great Britain and Nicaragua, the outcome of that affair would furnish full supply. showing as it does that the administration was thoroughly alive tC American interests. To say that the Mon roe doctrine was at any time involved in th. affair Is simply to display ignorance of the Monroe doctrine. But the treaty between tel nlted States and Great Britain, knowr as the Clayton -Bulwsr treaty. was tho foundAti1n upon which the admins traitor stood when 1t consented to the temporary occupation of Coriuto by tAe British, Tha treaty savs: "Neither the United Statst nor Great BritAin will ever erect or main tain any fcrtifcItions commanding tb, slip c,,usl. or in the vicinity thereof, o occupy or fIrtIfy or colonizs or assume o exercise any dominion over Nicaragua Costa Rico, the Mosquito coast or any par O: Central America Ia the face of tha explicit language how silly appears al the wild talk about the intention of Grea Britain to gobble up ss much of Nicaragua as would give her control of the canal. Slo SS. however. low lumentSbly ignoran rEALy of tn; SC who write about Publi affairs are. But viciousness has been re sponSihle t,'r morr of the miSrePrese1ta tinus III ttls case than ignorance has. B. the Way what has become of that jiDg resolution that popped up ia the Connect cut senate the other day?