The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-03-07

drainage. Now, Brother Ward,
want You to distinctly understand
that of these three mentioned eS'
sentials we have got none. IN
stead your bitches have no unii %hn
grades, which is necessary. Inc
sIinshod method of turning a gang |
Of hands loose with shovels in the
hands to excavate holes in the
bitches as their fancy dictates
makes your bitches today q ais'
grace. There are sections OF stag
3ant water, which by occupying
the bitches prevents the supsoli
drainage of the streets from per-
colating into them and into a per,
feet graded ditch to be carried Oh
rapidly. II your bitches were
thoroughly graded your streets
after a heavy rain, would be pass
able thirty.six hours sooner tnan
thew are now in February %, 1903
The council passed an ordinance
regulating the duties of the eng,
neer, and among those specinea
duties it says he should give
grades for bitches, sidewalks, rail,
way tracks and streets. Has that
been doneH Oh, no. :,
From these facts OF law, which 1
give you, why do you want to en-
treat the aid of every man, woman
and child to swell the chorus for
draingae9 Has the mayor, engl'
neer and street supervisor com
piled with the laws? Oh, no. Have
they performed the duties that
they are paid for? Your mayor
gets 800 per month, your engl-
neer $50, and street supervisor
$50. Brother Ward, l don't IN
tend to enlist the prayers of any
one but lay the plain facts and the
law before you, and the deduction
| am compelled to draw is that
your servants are not doing what
you pay them to do, and what are
you going to do about it? They
are in Office, they owe allegiance to
who? 1t does not seem to me that
to anyone there is a process OF
law before which you can take
them. If there was, ! crertaianly
would take them there.
There is also the citizen who
thinks that the man who runs a
newspaper must expose to the gaze
of the public all the shortcomings
of the law which take place, OF
which he, himself, is cognizant and
who never aids a newspaper by his
financial OF moral support. You
will hear him say, Our newspapers
never write up anything. > He
ought to be gtateful for the great
privilege extended to him to air
his grievance and call attention 10
the infractions of the law through
! the columns of the press, if he
wants to.
Our newspapers are conducted
by class of men who have select
ed the newspaper field to earn a
living, exactly the same as a mer-
chant selects his calling. He does
it to make a Legitimate support fol-
himself and family and when he,
as an individual, makes himself
conspicuous in prodding up the
violators of the law he loses the
support of that particular class.
For instance, sixty of us selected
and published in The Greenville
Times our disapproval of the acts
of some of our town council in APP,
propriating to themselves one OF
our streets. | would like to ask The
Greneville Times if these men ad.
vertised in his paper, and if so, il
they doubled their space in his col
umns, as an approval of his acts
Lethargic citizens, silent Cit
zens, polite citizens, do more ano
give all the right to participate il
this glorious method of govern.
ment that was given to us to be
kept pure and sacred SO that this
country will not drift into anarchy
and ruin.
Now, there is another class thai
imagineS the preacher must air his
grievance from the pulpit for him
He puts his stipena in the contri
button box and thinks he has
done his all. When we Sit dowr
and think others will preserve fol
us the boon of self government, We
are deluding ourselves into a fasle
security. The designing man is
gtlad to witness our lethargy and
Indifference. Wake up! Wake up