Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-07-25
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The Citizen sees little reason for t~hreshing over thrice
threshed straw. It has conducted a campaign for Albu-
auerque and her people, and it is satisfied with the re-
suits, not the least of which is the approval of the people.
OF course the organ of the Water Supply company, hay-
ing lost out, is very angry at The Citizen. This paper
is sorry for its %neighbor, whose domicHe and business lies
towards the setting sun, which no nation or people was
ever known to worship. But the growth of Albuquerque,
the prosperity of her people, her grand march to the po-
sition of metropolis o fthe southwest, is dearer to the
heart of The Citizen than even its sweet sympathy for its
westward declining contemporary.
But the Journal won't look at things in this light.
Simply for the information of the Journal, because
the people are informed already, this paper offers the fol
lowing:
The question came up by the demand of the Water
Supply company for an extension of its franchise to the
year 1910. The reason given was that the company with
out such extension would not be able to comply with It's
contract with the city. The Citizen opposed such a mon
strous and suicidal proposition, showing that the present
water rates in Albuquerque are more than double those
of any other town in the great southwest-that the COM
pany is charging S5 cents per thousand for water which
can be produced at profit for less than 0 cents. The
Journal. whose owners had sold the water company to the
present owners for a small payment with a greatly larger
one due when the speculation" of the buyers should
prove successful. favored and fought for this extension.
The Citizen opposed and the Journal advocated to beat
the band. The Citizen won ont.
Then came the question, what to do. The Citizen adj
vocated municipal ownership, which is proving a SUCCESS
all the world over. The Journal opposed, saying that AL
buquerque is not prepared to own her own water supply
at the present time. The next step was the report OF two
mCDlDGlS o III DGlAdl oAlhAAlt vi A0 tAhtNf "HN~
that body refused to endorse, advocating the purchase of
the water works plant. At once 1.-The Journal became
converted and advocated the city ownership of the pres
emit plant. The Citizen opposes this proposition. unless the
present plant can be bought for less than $4,000, the cost
approximately of a new and up to date plant.
Now, The Citizen is willing to leave to the people,
which has been the friend of the people of Albuquerque,
The Citizen, which has not a cent to gain either way, or
the Journal, which is working for a promised $4,000.
%suPERceDEs THE LATE ANANlAs.
Mr.. Stricken asserted in his newspaper last night
for the ninety-ninth time that he has no financial inter
est in the Water Supply company"
The foregoing is an extract from the water organ OF
Sunday morning.
There is a little red-headed rooster at Las Vegas who
has long worn the blue ribbon as the most cheerful iial
in New Mexico. But his lies are only for 1ul, without
malice or personal venom. However, he must retire
from his long maintained prominence, and let his blue
ribbon go to him who is doing the lying for pay on the
water organ. In fact this chap, whoever he may be, ough
to have too ribbons-one for the cheerfulness with whicl
he lies, and the other for the venom behind his false
hoods.
The Citizen has never said one time, much less nine
tynine times, that Mr.. Stricken has no financial interes
in the Water Supply company. 1t has never used MI
Strickler's name in that connection, but 1t has said tina
1.-THE Citizen, having no financial or personal interest II
the question either way, looked at IL only from the stand
point of AIbuquerques present condition and futur
growth"
Now, kindly compare what The Citizen said, as her
reproduced, with what the water organ says The Citizei
said, as quoted at the head of this article, and form you
own opinion as to the kind of colossal liar the Journa
writer is