Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-12-10

'"i'u Hoioiy tHe CouHlnlCy VIII DC
proud of as we'll as coming generations,
and is dignified way to get it. This
offer must be- accepted within thirty days
from dat hereof and the lots decided
within that time to a committee Of three
trusty persons such as the city council
may designate, this committee to be
always Kept complete by the appoint.
ment of another trusty person as vacan.
cies occur from death or otherwise.
Finally, feel constrained to say that
the person who, and especially if in high
official position in new and growing
community like Grays Harbor where
needed public improvement ts have been
allowed to accumulate until APPALLING,
makes it his chief aim to keep down
reasonable taxation to the detriment OF
needed public Improvements, is not as
good citizen as he who not only sees
what is needed but is aggressive and
sensible enough. especially ii in power,
to see that all such improvements are as
we'll and cheaply done as possible irre-
gardless of the misers or leeches croak-
ings which every new community has to
endure. Such generally lead in opposing
all public Improvements on the scare.
crow score Of keeping down taxes, but
are usually the first to bite at foolisf,
proposition like the Carnegie which, vir.
tually requires the city to PERPETUALLY
pay ten per cent. for the use of SIS, 900.
Such are not usually sensible enough or
willing to be taxed to meet the interest
on long time bonds for improvements
which would endich them::more than any
business proposition they could possibly
entertain, not even when the bonds
would be met by another generation
not necessarily the succeeding one
when conditions will have so changed by
the increase of population and the en-
hanced value Of all assessible property
that the tax for meeting the payment on
any bond when due would even less felt
individually than the tax now would be
to even pay the interest on bond and
neither would be hardship; the bene-
6ts arising from such, however, no one
can estimate, and especially from i'm.
proving our waterway.
| sIs theresany equity in forcing anyone
to continually pay street taxes who Trap
pens TO own property on street here
that will have to be planked repeatedly
until it costs as much or more than it
would to have had the street permanent
ly improved at first, and then when it is
so improved obIige the owner to pay the
latter tax too? TO illustrate: I have
owned eleven unimproved lots on Nine
mire street for fifteen years for which,
paid about $500; the tax for planking
half the street opposite these lots to date
has been about $500 or more. While this
has very much disgusted me, for it is
neither right or equitable. it has not
been hardship. What I call hard
ship is when poor man, struggling to
support family and pay for lot by
days works has to UNNECEssA RILY meet
such a condition because either of the
lack of ability Of city government or Of
proper support of it by the community.
This is what call being ION the ragged
edge" 1t makes my blood tingle and
wish that all leeches and incom petents
may some day be poor themselves long
enough to learn consideration. and that
, right soon. There is no excuse for such
ioonI;tiCOc II 10 al ~, >l,, In ol <e - h:l:A..
or judgment somewhere. Is there any
equity in forcing ONE man of endless
generations 10 come, as street conditions
are here, to bear the expense alone for
permanently improving the street oppo.
site his lot for all coming generations?
The remedy is simple, more compare
lively equitable and easy. There is no
sense in not having long since given a
long time bond for permanently improv-
ing our streets. The interest on the
bonds would have been a mere trifle as
: compared to the expense of planking the
streets, and when the bonds were paid
by future generation the conditions
would have 80 changed it would not be
any more felt than the tax meantime
would be to meet the interest on such a
bond. But, says the croaking leech and
miser, other cities don't do so. Is there
any excuse because another makes a
mistake that you should? Only obtus 9
, persons follow like sheep wrong lead
progressive people correct bad customs,
having the courage to do it.
The penny wise and pound foolish
spirit which opposes bonding for i'm
provements which MUST be made, and
the sooner the better for all concerned,
if allowed to prevail will never build a
large city on Grays Harbor that anyone
can be proud Of but fortunately other
conditions of which l know and have
, been waiting for for many years, from
force of circumstances, will soon make
US, hope. celebrated. Accordingly l
want to live long enough to see the city
go big that the leeches, ETC., will have ia
, take back seat so far as practical
things are concerned. and am going to
try to do it. In the meantime I shall
never cease in loyalty to my adopted
> home or in any effort to try and dc
, anything that is right which will add to
it's prosperity. But from leeches and
such as do not know enough to do what
is for their interest when told, such for
instance as those who voted against the
{ removal of the county seat to the Har-
hOr I prav tn ha deivarol thov ovospay,