The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-11-04
oh Riley ON Bonds.

Oh Riley on Bonds.
| see the regular iditor av the News
has nonrisidint branestarm over
the lie NV 5000 av city bonds. lie
seZ, sez he, 1t proposes to proJlot
number av wimmin and nonrisidint
tsxuayers, who have no voice in the
mather, Until hwy inditidnis on the
bare majority of one vote. How does
he know phat the majarity will bef
How nanny school houses, and how
nanny strate improvements, and how
much suers, have amy nonrisidint
property owners ivir bilt there or
amy where on til the risidints voted
thin and made Thin do their part OF
ltY Pbat IL the bondid dit II the city
nowY III till yez, min, the city has
no bondid dit.
him another part av his sporadic
eifusion is the "take this or nothin"
attitude Is not in kapiug wild the
bl DAD and farmindid characteristics
ay American citizenship. That ls
phat the most of the paple have bin
thinkin far two or three yares t0ime,
since the prisidint av the wather
company tould thin they had plenty
nv wather and good enutf for thin
IL they only knowed enuif to use 1t
rite. IT, good of him to till yez the
mission av the civic tage was to sill
the wather oompany's contaminated
wather plant to the ojty.
Phat Is that, the high privates av
the rear ranks or the banker and the
wsther company bin tellin yeZ, that
the city cant sill 500, 600 av bonds,
avin if yez do vote thin, wild them
fellies ownin the prlsint wather
plant. In other cities that are bless
ell wild a prlvit wather company, the
priVit company owns all the wather
supply, and wather rites eve must
admit thase feIlies has "A corner on
contaminated wather).
But, byes, wild us the city owns the
warst and bist supply av pure watheT
tthe same the wather company tried
to grab wild thare civic lage, and the
city charter privints the authorities
from grantin right to amy one that
will pIivint the city from suprlyin
thimsilves wild wather.
The wather company can Issue
SlO0,0 900 av bonds on contaminated
wather from springs aud upper Indian
creek. Wild irrigation stock and u
franchise that Its thin bring In
wather, in competition wild amy one
and iviry one, and the city thin.
silves. There is three other plants in
the city already contaminated.
But dey have do gall to till ye2
that the city can't Sill 800, 600 av
bonds avin if they be backed wild all
the rale estate, franchises and rites
In the CITY.
till yez they must tink yez are an
INTELLIGENT lot av paple to swaller
that gulf tor fifteen yares' tonne
(phin the company's bonds come
due.
Phat risk thin fetlies will run
for yez. They are willin to take Il
chance that ye2 will pay thin $3.50, 900
In ID yares, and thin bond yersilves
fol $3.50, 900.
Yis, they wud lit yez bond now for
$3.50, 900 ii ye2 wud give thin about
$50. 900 av it, and they wud lit ye2
make a Mise loike they owned most all
of ye2,
Thin another big stick they are
shooin yez wild, Is litigation, or law
In, or phatlvir yez call 1t, they aIe
tryin Go awe yez or skeer ye2 wild that
long list of pitifoggers or phativir
they call them. Oh yis, they call one
avAthim lawyers. They can show ye2
by whitstone or grindstone, or phat-
ivir they call that argimint, that ye2
all ought to be glad thin fellies III
yez live here at all, ut all Che don't
quite till yez that it's thin collie,
tions they have so much oonsidera'
tion for). He's l0okin afther that part
himsilt. I'll bit foive oints whin the
collections stop the pettltogers stop,
Onlis the bankers dig up, but that Ii
Iigilations. bin Iould that lawir
or litigatin was iXpinsive. Amy hC
to the company tryin to sill annythIr
contrary to the pure food aud Wathel
law. lie tills ye to kape still and lool
wise, and stop talkin abont th'
wather and thin bankers or they
might do something TO yez. IT.
their foine CONCEPTION av the rite
av man that has pIivinted their doiI
somethm till Se2 before this tonne.
AakoIdin to some attorneys tnei
lagal whitstone must he waIpid, o
their gIindstone krank must b.
krookid bat, min, they ain't got al
the attorneys imployed, II they hav,
got the pettifogers. Some attorney
are careful of about phat kind aV
kase they take, and phat side the.
take. There is some things the,
won't stand tor
bin tould some of the bankers
friuds and illiCtion standard bearers
sed, sez they, Riley must be might
name man whin he mixed the win
min and childher wild the mast
wather iite. lhim teilies don
understand him. lie wants to unmt
thin. he don't want thin to have t
mix wild it amy longer Thin tellie
whin they understand it will he crop
in around for place HI pHllbearer
to the nasty wather bi2ni2
Whin the paple quit usin thei
wather, ply can't the wather com
pany and bankers use it to wathe
some of their stock widY Some c
thin pettitOgers can show them how
Ne2 see some of the big corporate
giants say, seq they, its loike a haI Sc
1t nades wather iViry little while
oh Riley.