San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-13

will they tamely bow to the SUI
perior tactics and experience Of the
secretely despised garoos, and take
their chances of getting whatever
may be doled out to them? 1t is
understood the gaZoos, who repre-
sent the silver element, are orga-
nizing with a special view Of Great
ing trouble for the goo-goos, their
gold-bug bretheren. All signs are
propitious for a "war to the knife"
though signs are deceptive, and
over the alluring prospects Of a
feast on pie, the warning bretheren
may yet conclude to bury their diff
ferences and agree upon a "mixed
ticket"
Under the terms of the existing
contract between the city and the
waterworks company, the latter
Is obligated to flush the sewers
and one water closet upon the
premises OF every patron Of the
company, free Of charge upon COM
pletion of the sewers. 1t is safe
to assume that, allowing for waste
and extravagant use, 1t will re-
quire as much water to carry out
this obligation as is now daily con-
sumed in the city for all domestic
purposes; in other words the
waterworks company will be
called upon to furnish double the
quantity OF water it now serves
consumers without receiving in
return one additional penny for
the extra service. Perhaps the
company may carry out In good
faith this obligation; and perhaps
it may not. In any event, the day
is rapidly approaching when San
Antonio must and will own and
operate the public water supply ;
that is, II her credit is not frittered
| away in the issuance OF bonds
from which the people receive no
real or lasting benefits.
The excursions OF the Wizard OF
Menlo park into the realms OF
science seem to have no limit. The
most recent of Edison's discoveries
opens the secret recesses of the
brain, and permits the taking Of a
Photographic view of the interior
through the skull Of a living sub
ject, showing the canals Of the
brain and the entire formation OF
the head, material and translucent,
The Importance of such q discov-
cry will prove Of incalculable bene-
fit not only scientifically and
psychologically, but socially and
politically as well. By the aid OF
this invention, the inner workings
Of the complicated wheels in the
heads of both the modern reformer
and the effervescing populist can
be laid bare.
Despite the fact that the finan-
cial condition Of the city daily con-
tinues to grow more embarrassing,
our city fathers appear to be in no
way solicitous about retrenching
expenses or reducing to a revenue
basis the cost of running the city
government. Apparently, they
look upon a bond issue as a con-
venient and infallible panacea for
all the city's financial woes, and
when the exigency arises that they
can go no further without ready
money, they smilingly put their
heads together and blandly ask
the taxpayers to vote them a few
additional hundreds of thousands
OF bonds in order to enable them
to liquidate pressing demands in
the form of "unsatisfied judgments
and approved claims" But the
time will come Git should have long
since passed) when these appeals,
no matter how plausible or spec
ious, will not be needed, for the
people are firing OF burden
ing themselves with a vast bonded
Indebtedness for which they re-
ceive nothing but promises in re-
turn. The way in which policy OF
retrenchment and economy could
easily be insugurated has been so
plainly and repeatedly pointed out
that 1t does not require a poll-par-
rot repetition. Let there be a weed
ing out OF sinecures, reduction in
the number Of superfiuous en-
| ployes and a decisive cut in the
salaries of a number of the higher
class officials, beginning with that
OF the mayor himself.
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