The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-29

Of from $4,000 70 $500 2 year. We VIII
have oceans OF water at the reservoir
and no means at our command for da-
tributing il beyond the limits Of the pres
ent system We viii have power TO sen
10 factories, with no factories 10 take II,
as our tax rate viii keep out capital anu
drive away that which is n a POSITION 10
leave.
Some years since we made a grand el-
fort TO rid ourselves OF warrants. ana OF
floating debt. and did so. and have oeeh
congratulating ourselves ever since. II
Is now proposed 70 plunge US deeper than
ever into the hole we have just emerged
from.
In sny Judgment. If we care for the
good name and credit of the city. X IS not
enough TO barely defeat the proposition
II should be absolutely showed under,
and thus proclaim 10 the world that the
element OF Reputation. or bad faith. Is
not Seattle characteristic.
ONE WHO HAS ENOUGH
Municipal Bfghead.
''To the Editor: A few years ago. While
laborlng under an attack OF nunicipal
bighead. the people Of this city tthe writer
pleads guilty. demanded a charter 1or
city Of 10000 people, and got H. Ike
boy trying 70 wear mans clothes. we have
struggled along. spending thousands upon
thousands Of dollars 10 keep up appear
ances on December 10 we are going 10
select men 70 undo the mOnstrous mistake
OF A few years ago. and at The same time
we are going 10 decide whether or not We
will commit a worse hlunder. Another
evidence Of municipal bighead was the
construction OF the South tunnel recon-
mended by Benezette Williams and IN
dorsed by City Engineer Thomson, the
same man who is now so anxious 10 carry
out the Cedar river scheme The South
tunnel viii be needed when we have 300
Il faaanIe a
large sum OF money in that tunnel waiting
for use, as not an ounce Of sewage has
ever been turned into it. nor viii there be
for several years.
The people are being frightened in sew
eral ways They are told that Lake Wash
ington water viii soon become impure The
fact Is. Lake Washington VIII supply pure
water to this city when il has a quarter OF
a million OF people. 4 few hundred dollars
will extend the supply pipe TO water 500
feet deep. where the water Will remain
pure in spite of some surface sewage. 1t
is a well-known fact that sewage will not
sink TO "A great depth. The people are also
told that a corporation win get hold of the
Cedar river water and the city be forever
shut off from control They do not tell ths
people that the city can protect itself. as
was done in the case of the Spring Hin
company. When the city got ready to take
the Spring i'm plant IL did so. and pr3c-
NAAN
company should complete the plant: the
city will have the advantage. and not the
company. The city can say:
We have an inexhaustible supply Of
pure water; the company can come to our
terms or We VIII continue TO use Lake
Washington. water
Buying Mems Clothes for Boys.
1.-THE most active workers for this unnec-
essary debt do not claim that We need the
ter mr.
who SAYS:
~ have a little boy who will need
a mans suit of clothing when he is
twenty-one years old: III mort
gage my home now and have them
ready for him The sensible man says,
IN let my boy wait till he needs them,
and possibly ask him TO help pay for them
when he does need them
I'VE have had the bighead long enough.
We have been engaged in the business of
providing for the people whom we hope to
have here ten or twenty years hence. Let
US stop before we SO bankrupt ourselves
and make our debt and taxes so high If
we have not already done SOD that we VIII
prevent those whom we are so anxious to
have from coming here We need the
Cedar river water now just about as much
as we need the South tunnel.
''Fhe perniCiOuS activity of those on the
inside should he carefully examined. Many
c0nserva tive, wel-meaning men have been
dipped in various ways, and when they are
asked as they will very soon he, TO again
bond the city to take mp the floating war
rants they talk SO much about, they viii
then realize that a debt is debt, no mat
ter by what name you cali il. What does
il mean?
Reader. have you paid your already
burdensome taxes?
"Wll this additional debt help you?
Have you done your duty?
Have you registered?
DEMOCRAT"