The weekly examiner., 1901-04-27
WAITE BU R Y.
CoNsoLIDATIoN.

the returns indicate. As The Exam iner man said last week, that if they were men of sense and we knew they ~were-they would so report. Good judgment and fair dealing and twen- tieth century improvements in mun1- cipal government demanded this action for Waterbury, and it's final relief from hayseed and back number rule. We predict that it opens up for Waterbury prosperity in many lines which before this improvement was effected ana under our old-time dual government were closed to it. It also means before long a far cheaper system of municipal rule for us The people will now look to patching up the waste holes and un- necessary expenditures of our city gov ernment. More business and less waste will be required in its management. Every time that somebody finds fault with the extravaganza of our city gov ernment, it's financiers can no longer point to a board of selectmen only an- swerable to themselves alone, and polnt out some foolish waste, and cry stop thief" The towns extravaganza Will no longer divert attention from the city's waste, and vice versa. Consoll- dation kicks the stuf1ng" out or an expensive and worthless town skele- ton and dummy government, and opens I'D lynx-eyed citizens to the ways the citv foolishly gets rid of its peoples money. If consolidation is the death of the town as useless, it is the death also to our future extravaganza as city. When it comes in force and our citizens get used to it, there Will De less chances for municipal ownership of telephones. electric motors, collins (ex- cept for city officials who require them at voters expense), trolleys, gas, light ing. light banking business, water closet plumbing, and the million other schemes which have in them big Jobs for somebody at the peoples expense. The city, instead of being expanded in these foolish and expensive pieces of robbery, will be now curtailed in it's finances to business-like purposes and business methods only. Even the hun dreds of thousands of our city bonds now advertised as subjects for blds had better be f1oated as soon as possible by the present city officials who have them in tow, for, after consolidation, public opinion will take hand and create less chance for lot of officials who all told, pay but trifie in taxes and their remaining members poll tax only (when it is collected) to vote bonds by wholesale and get Kellogg - to fog=rolf 1t in Hartford as desired by the whole people of Waterbury, and then the bonds readily printed (if indeed they were not printed before the legislature passed the law which authorized their issue) and foated speedily and quietly presumably to the highest bidder, when the audience of bidders does not number more than a few responsible people, and no cover ing or telling how many of the rest who presume to bid on them are simply straw
 Nothing of this style of raid finance, by favor of the legislature, will take place under consolidation. Censolida- tion will prove the saviour of Water bury and her interests.
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 SELECTMAN OCEANS REPORT.
 The Examiner man is not a little amused to look over. the second quar- terly report of Selectman Doran, and to see how hard he tries to figure it out that he is a financial improvement over ex-Selectman Morris.
 By this oddly reading report the strain is something immense and laugh able to make a showing that this quarters running of the towns busi- ness was a few hundred dollars less than the corresponding quarter last year. To bring about this result, which is wholly artificial and by the figures untrue, enough of a sum is deducted from the actual total payments from the town treasury to arbitrarily effect this result. which deducted sum is claimed to be paid out this quarter on last years bills. The incorrect and misleading result is at once apparent when one stops to consider this pecu- liar style of bookkeeping and the in- tended purpose lying behind it. If MT. Doran knows anything about how to reach correct result in this matter, he should know that to figure out of his cash paid out actually this quarter the gross sums he claims were on ac- count of last years bills, is certainly an incorrect statement of affairs, when he compares the balance with all that