The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1901-12-07

the city had TO care for ABOUT three
hundred cases of smallpox besides
many others who were quarantined
on account of it. This unexpected
expense made it necessary. with the
.trictest economy, to overrun the
levy nearly $4,000 to protect the
| people of the city. If Mr.. Kelley
thinks we were extravagant, we
might send the smallpox patients
and suspects to the West Superior
Hotel and see if he can take care of
hem any cheaper.
If anyone will take the trouble to
Investigate thoroughly, it will be
found that the actual cost of running
this city for the past year was
several thousand dollars less than in
any previous year since Superior has
been a city. The common council
and everyone connected with the
administration of city affairs have
exercised the most rigid economy
and kept expenses at minimum.
Mr.. Kelley says the school board
expenses were too high. believe
that the members of the school board
of this city are as careful, capable
and competent men as can be found
in the country, and that our schools
have been run as economically as
VS. consistent with efficiency. Even
now we have not sufficient school
buildings and nearly thousand
school children are compelled to
attend school, if they do at all, in
poorly heated, unsanitssy, rented
buildings iu various parts ofthe city.
| believe that good school buildings
are a good investment for any city,
and that good sch. .ols are an invest
ment the value o. which can scarcely
h- measured by no ~. Possibly Il
lo'l~r s-rns u no = i'"portarce to
ne l. ,n G mptny an its allied ill.,
t-4restS than these tn ,usaud schoo
chiIlren, but all their money coul"
OF buy the cheapest child il the lot
This clique and it's allies have said
that | WAS revolutionist. Ii one ia
a revolutiouist w o believes that
la g- property holders should pay
their just share of the taxes, then !
am a revolutionist. If one is revo-
lu,ionist who believes that we should
have sufficient school bindings and
good schools for every child of school
age in the city, then [ am revolu
ZIONIST. IF one is a revolutionist VINO
believes that taxes should be paid so
that those who work for the city can
get their pay and pay their bills,
then | am a revolutionist.
The trouble is that tn sse large in
terests have been pandered to so
much in the past that they cannot
hear to be put on an equality with''the
little fellows" They seem to think
that they own the people while as a
matter of fact, they owe all the value
there is in their land to the people.
They bought a worthless old piece
of swamp for nearl y nothing, and
thirty thousand people came here
with their brains, their muscle and
their money and made that old
swamp valuable. Now, after the
people have given them all this
wealth, they even refuse to pay taxes
on it.
Possibly the great men who are
steering these things from their
New York palaces think the people
of this city were made for their a
musement. Possible they think that
by refusing TO pay thair taxes and
circulating false reports about this
city they can scare the people who
hold our bonds So thay can buy them
for a song. Possible they think
that after they get the bonds for
little or nothing, they can get an
administration which will make the
people of this city pay them in full
so they can make million or moro
by the transaction. | have received
letters from small nd-holders in
fourteen states which show that just
such deal is now being worked. l
am very mucn mistaken in the tenn
per of the people of this city it they
will rlacidly allow themselves to be
used for any such purpose. The
City of Superior can handle its bond
business without their interference.
The fact is that the land company,
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