San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-01
WHO ASKED FOR THAT.

the regular press channels, is the
following:
"The House committee on county
government and finances will re.
port favorably O'Connor's bill to
authorize the commissioners court
of BeXar county to issue 100000 in
bonds, the proceeds Of the sale OF
which shall be applied to paying
for boring artesian wells"
Do the people Of this county
want to saddle the taxpayers Of
this county with the payment Of
an additional 100000 for some
county commissioners, or those
whom they authorize, to expert.
ment with in the way of
boring artesian wells? Has
not the county enough on
her hands with her courthouse
bonds and other indebtedness
without rushing the bond issue in
this way? There is large sized
bug under this chip; or, if not that,
then there is a most woful lack Of
consideration. There is no more
need Of such an issue as this at
this time than there is of con-
tinuous session of the state legis-
lature. The indebtedness Of the
county is now as large as it ought
to be for the present and it is not
wisdom to increase it unless for
more urgent reasons than can be
produced in favor of this bill. The
issue Of 100000 bonds, to pay for
artesian wells, says the report, but
for whom? Is BeXar county going
into the well digging business, and
if so, for whose benefit? What
lands of hers is BeXar county going
to bore on, and for what purpose is
the county going to use the water
if it is secured? Upon whose re-
quest and under whose guarantee
that the funds will be used only
for boring in this issue Of bonds to
be made? Who authorized the
county commissioners to take any
steps Of this kind? We're they so
instructed by any vote Of the coun-
ty at any time? If not so, are they
not tritle previous in their appli-
cation for such authority? The
people Of this city, who pay the
greater part OF the county taxes,
certainly have some interest in this
matter. There should be a ramon
STRANGE sent at once to Austin, pro.
testing against this attempt to add
100000 to the Indebtedness Of the
county in any such a way as this.
The Senator FROM this district is
requested to have his eye out for
this peculiar privilege that is re-
ported favorably upon, and see that
there is no rushing Of such bill
through, until a least the sense of
the people Of this city has been
learned in this matter
Every nationality has been well
coined to a home in the United
States, save the Chinese. In this
welcome there is no string at
tached. All nationalities are on a
political level. While this is a
fact it is also a fact that when these
foreigners attempt, as foreigners,
to band together to rule it is high
time to sit down on them. Ameri-
can citizenship goes. The attempt
to coerce racial or other unities in
to a political entity and through
such association govern this city or
this state or this nation is blow
at its free government, particularly
when such association is based up
on the ignorance and anti-Ameri-
canism OF those forming it. When
and where such attempts are. made
the manifest duty Of all lovers Of
pure government is to band to-
gether to defeat it. When that de-
feat is accomplished it will be
ample time to settle other things.
Ignorance and hatred Of American
institutions are poor foundations
upon which to erect a party for
municipal government.
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