San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-02
BANKS AND BANKERS.
LOCKWOOD NATIONAL
BANK.
BANk
aAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
J.S.LocKwooD, Pres. j. MUIR, JB., Cashier
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
Written for the Daily LIGHT:
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.

Who were the godfathers and
nursing mothers Of that bill in the
Legislature, to authorize the Com
missioners' court Of Bexar to issue
100000 OF bonds, for boring ar
tesian wells in the county for irri-
CATION.
Such proposition did not origi-
nate with the people of Bexar, who
already stagger under their load Of
taxes. 1t was never publicly moot
ed or canvassed in this county,
much less demanded by the people.
At whose instigation was this
bill introduced, is a question the
people would like to see settled.
Bexar is already as deep in the
guagmire of debt, as the people
care to be, and the taxes are sut1i-
GENTLY burdensome to the tax pay
ers.
All hands would rejoice to enjoy
the advantages Of irrigating the
lands in BeXar, but no one wants
to be taxed for nothing. The peo-
pie are sick and tired Of jobbery,
favoritism and election frauds,
when the money to pay for these
luXuries has to be yanked out Of
their pockets.
The 100000 squandered in build
ing bridges across dry creeks, fur
nished the people Of BeXar CAPT
tai object lesson as to how the
county commissioners eXpend the
public money.
This proposition to sell 100000
OF bonds for boring artesian wells,
is an electioneering scheme and
nothing else. 1t would develop
no end of jobbery and corruption,
and the 100000 would simply be
wasted and squandered in fat jobs
and salaries to chronic papsuckers,
or favorite contractors.
1t is questionable, whether the
100000 would result in rendering
one hundred acres of land irrigable
in Bexar county. This would re-
suit from the misspending Of the
money and the unsuitable location
of the wells that might be bored.
1t would be repetition Of the farce
of building bridges over creeks,
that have been dry in summer,
and fordable in winter, for twenty
consecutive years.
The people of Bexar already
have hinge elephant" on their
hands in the shape Of that new
courthouse and should set their
faces as tlints against any increase
OF the debt of the county, and the
consequent increase OF the taxes.
The rate OF the state taxation
will be raised, as it is an absolute
necessity, and that will swell the
taxes of each taxpayer. The time
is unpropitiOus for adding to the
burdens Of the people by running
the county deeper into debt, for a
slice of moonshine and CANNON.
The hard times, the scarcity of
money and the drouth, plead trum-
pet tongued against the folly Of ad-
ding 100000 to the existing debt
of Bexar, at this juncture, and the
people should protest against such
a thing being done.
Let us get the new court house
elephant of our hands ere we
contract any more debts. There is
no telling how much the court
house will cost by the time it is
completed. The costs OF these i'm
provements, unlike the negro cat
fish, never "swunk."
The cost of the poor house is
enormous, and ought to be cut
down. The county is paying H
B. Salliway 500 month and has
increased salary Of the county
judge to $2,400, and increased the
expenses Of the county in various
respects.
1t is a time for retrenchment and
economy. The pruning knife
should be applied to all unneces-
sary expenditures. Business is de-
pressed and we'll nigh stagnant,
and thousands are unable to OBJ
tain work in our city, and in every
city in the Union. 1t may we'll be
asked, whittier we are drifting?
Congress is wind jamming and is
split up into petty cliques, when it
should be devising some financial
remedy to relieve the national
treasury and to restore confidence
1t needs but trifle to precipitate
another panic and throw business
out of the gearing.
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