The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-14
4 SPLENDID VICTORY

IN Tuesdays election IN Browns
vile for the construction of wa
ter-works and electric light plant,
and an unusually large vote was
polled in comparison with the vote
usually cast in bond elections else
where. This election is really a
record breaker, as it is said by
those who are posted on such
things that it is the first time they
have ever known of a bond issue
being carried without any votes
whatever against it. 1t was indeed
a splendid victory, showing our
people TO be unanimously in favor
of the up-building of the town,
and that they realize that the sine
qua non for the, accomplishment of
this is first of all the construction
of water and light systems here.
THE HERALD feels that it can
not too highly commend the citi-
zens who have made this splendid
victory possible by their energetic
work in behalf of the bond issue.
And it is gratifying indeed to know
that there were so many earnest
advocates of the measure. Even
those who have been opposed to
municipal ownership have acted
generously and magnanimously by
coming forward AMI voting for the
bond issue, showing thereby that
they were, broad-minded enough to
put their personal preferences aside
and join in move by which the
town will be supplied with those
highly essential Improvements,
water-works and electric lights.
Such unanimity in regard to this
vitality important matter bodies well
for the future of our city. Itshows
that, whatever may be our private
or personal differences, we are one
when it comes to the welfare of
the town. and will work together
for its up-building. A town whose
citizens are unit for its progress
and who will make such stand
in its behalf, as was made in
Brownsville yesterday, is bound to
forge aheads and: is undoubtedly
destined to become one of the lead
ing cities of the state.
With the assurance of the early
construction of water-works and
electric lights in Brownsville, there
opens before the town vista of
boundless improvement and adj
vance. THE HERALD feels that it
is not too sanguine when it pro-
phesies that within less than five
years time Brownsville will have
doubled in population, and within
a decade more it will be one of the
largest cities in South Texas. With
the first flash of electricity on its
streets and the first flow of an
abundance of pure water through
its mains, the pulses of the town
will awaken to a new life that will
carry # forward by leaps and
bounds. Its commanding position
as the gateway between the repub-
Lie of Mexico and the great empire
of Texas, near the mouth of one OF
the most important streams of fresh
water in the South, will in tAe
course of time cause Brownsville
TO outstrip FL Paso which occupies
a similar position at the other end
of the Texas-Mexican boundary,
and vastly superior advantages Of
climate and soil and nearness to
the Gulf coast must make it city
of far greater Importance.
With the phenomenal success
that has crowned the efforts of oui
people in the results of the cleo
fiou for the bond issue, Greater
Brownsville became assured. Il
will be a fact before the people
here realize it. And when Browns
vile becomes a splendid city o
100. 900 inhabitants flashing witt
u1yriads of electric lights, he
streets aglow with great arc lights
and her fine business blocks illu
minated with thousands OF incan