The daily tribune., 1905-04-15

crease Of your debt. Observe now
what your past administration has
done in ~ months. It has paid the
running expenses; 1t has paid the in
terest which has exceeded the running
expenses, and in addition to that has
reduced your debt over $2l. 900. 1t
seems to me that 1t should be evi.
dent that somebody has done some
work. So favorable . record in mu-
ni,ipal management ! am on no other
ocoasion conversant with. state
this matter again. To reduce your
debt your administration must meet
three propositions. namely:
/. Pay your running expenses.
.. Meef tho annually acoruing In.
terest.
8. And after this accumulate
something to apply on your debt.
The above is tha order in which 1t
must be done. and doing this is not a
matter Of favoritsism, of personal
likes or dislikes. but hard headed bust. .
ness. and it is the work which we
have been engaged in ever since you
put us to it two years ago. This
record has been made by Watching IN
two directions. first. collecting all
revenues. justly due TO the city, and
second, expo nding - little ~ pos
sible for running expenses; AMI this
policy Is the only one to bring the
city out of debt.
To look the problem in the face
from another standpoint: As have
before stated, We stand in q position
equivalent to that Of all property
holders having mortgage on their
property in the sum of about one
fourth OF its assessed valuation. The
interest acoumulating annually
amounting to about %. 90 per capita
for eaoh man, woman and child liv-
ing in our corporate limits. The
people themselves, however. are not
free. handed each for himself to lift
his part Of the debt. but you neces-
sArily are obliged to place this matter
in the hands Of your city officials to
lift IL for you. To do this work you
see the necessity of having men able,
but not only that. they must be hon.
est and that not only ~ to not GEEK
ing anything for themselves. but
they must be stern enough in your in
tereats to prevent other p'ople from
fieeoing you; and this is y matter re-
quiring persistent energy. And tell
you that almost every person employ
ed in . public position nowadays
seems to he LOOKING for something for
nothing when he has chance at the
public crib. Election 10 over but ~
an actual existing fact at this time to
illustrate. mention an example
which the majority Of some 1900
voters in this city can now very
plainly see. II they desire to do so.
Just before election. ~ required by
law, had the official nominations Of
candidates published, both in The
Tribune and Ex Parte. Under the
law newspapers are allowed "a cents
per column inch for printed matter,
for first publication both those papers
had the same list Of nominations to
publish. In fairness and right and
even Justice. 1t WAS their duty to
publish those nominations with at
least fair economy - to space In
their papers. II you have those
papers before you look at them. and
you will see that The Tribune pub
lished said nominations in . space of
three columns. while the Ex Parte
published it in four, and for their
work in this item they presented bills
to your city council last Monday
night for payment, and counting one
issue, that 10 the first issue OF each of
those papers publishing that notice
their bills ~ computed each for the
one issue. were ~ follows:
Ex Parte, official nominations,
20 inches s83. "a
Tribune. offlciAl nominations.
90 inches $50. 40