The record-union., 1899-04-02
"How Long?n


Eds. Record Union: Nice dose. this
last one! How long will the people Of
Sacramento supinely swallow such dis
ease breeding nastiness = each dose
worse than the last? Bad as is this to
take physically, worse, if possible, is
the taking morally of the impudent at
tempt to bulldose those who have the
courage and honesty to expose the
rottenness of municipal affairs into a
hushed silence. Unprincipled and self
righteous hypocrisy has no appreciation
of the unyielding courage and power
of men of principle.
1t is too late now to inquire how
such men got into the off1ce-they are
there and have taken possession, and
like Boss Tweed before them, turn upon
any protest with his What are you
going to do about it?" The world
knows what the might of a reused pop
ulace did do about it. Tweed robbed
the people of their money. These take
their lives, not as did the thugs of
San Francisco with a swift bullet, but
by slow poison-not the lives of few,
which resulted in the Vigilantes' rem
edy, but of the many-children, women
and men-who are refused the pure
water they have legally expressed their
right and desire for. How long will
this people endure and suffer, and die?
And they want this hushed up!
These men, so puffed up with self
conceit at being elected to office as to
mistake their gross ignorance for. as
gross wisdom, and further blinded by
the approval Of a no small number of
the same class, who by nature prefer
filth to purity, will go on to any dep
relation not hindered by the lash of
outraged justice. Their conceit prob
ably makes them take any protest as
an insult, and they whine accordingly.
Of course, this applies only to those
who are responsible for this condition
Of things. The integrity of those who
have partially stayed the foul intent
is gratefully recognized.
Are the instruments of evil a power,
before which all that is good and pure,
honest and aw-abiding must bow the
neck in shame and death? Mo- a thou
sand times no. The might of right is
omnipotent. Rise in the God given
strength of justice; demand and en-
force obedience to law and order, as
expressed in the city charter. No half
way, stand back and let some one else
do it, will prevail. Evil is but an as
sumption of power it does not possess;
that falls before the might Of moral
righteousness.
Sacramento is favored as perhaps no
city of its size is with an abundant
supply of the purest of pure water right
at her door. No more valid objection
has been raised against utilizing this
rare inheritance than that some people
prefer what they now have to pure
water. Let him that is filthy be
filthy still" There will always be
plenty of this water, and it is but fair
that they take their turn buying, even
as others now have to, the clear water.
1t were a thousand times cheaper for
the city to furnish it to them than
these doctors and undertakers' bills
cost the suffering victims.
No further than Elk Grove is to be
seen the practical demonstration of the
pure water supply. One sees there a
town bountifully supplied with pure,
sweet water, drawn from the same in
exhaustible subterranean supply. Foil
age and flowers are showered clean
from the irrigating hose, public fount-
aims are a delight, while sparkling,
crystal drops fly from the sprinkling
wagons-a picture of life-giving cleanli-
ness that would turn slickens topper
from his ways. { ors send him to. an
asylum No more water settling bar
rel, no more filters, no more boiling
the water to drink, no more buying by
the gallon in the home, and for the
city no expensive, uncertain, germ
breeding filtering, no alum, or other
chemicals, no ditch water, no cruelty
robbing others Of rightful irrigation
no sewer soup, no dump tea, no con-
temptuous fling of Sacramento water"
from abroad, but a constant supply of
actually pure, sweet soft water, from
a source of impossible corruption.
And these men, in their superior wis
dom, will not allow even a test of this
deep-well supply! Is it any wonder
that only contempt is felt for a people
who will suffer such things to be?
AN OUTSIDER.