The wageworker., 1910-05-13
BILLY MAJORS DOPE CARD
THE SAME CONTAINING FEW UNBIASED OPINIONS ABOUT
MATTERS MORE LESS INTEREST TO THE PUBLIC

The knockers on the park bonds are
now busy. If it hadn't been on one
thing it would have been on another.
There is absolutely no truth in the
statement that $4,000 of the proposed
issue will, if carried, have to be expend-
ed for the Lincoln Park site. The men
who compose the park commission are
level-headed business men, and they
are not going to pay more for park
lands than the lands are worth. If
they buy Lincoln Park it will be be-
cause they think they are getting it at
bargnin-and everybody knows that
the site is not worth $4,000. The prop
osition is to vote 100000 bonds for
park purposes. The commission then
spends the money as it sees tit, and it
will see fit to eXpend most of it on An
telope Park But the people of the west
and southwest sides Of the city deserve
some recognition in the way of parks
and the Lincoln Park site is good onn
In time it can be connected with Ante.
lope Park by a boulevard. Then the
boulevard can be extended up Ante.
lope creek until it is well around the
northwest side of the city.
But the taxes o, rot! Suppose the
bonds run twenty years, and VIC raise
sinking fund of 5000 a year, and
pay 1-2 per cent interest, which
amounts to $4,000 year. That means
we must raise $l1 900 year. That, Of
course, will be lessened by the interest
the city can secure by banking the sink
ing fund. But call it $11 900 year. We
surely have $1,000 people in Lincoln.
And say there is an average of five to IL
family. That s 1000 families-and
there's the cost, dollar family per
year to bring about park system that
will be worth untold thousands in
health, comfort, pleasure and satisfac.
tion. l want every workingman in Lin
coin who has a, vote to vote for that
kind of bond issue. The bulk of the
money will be paid by men who have
grown rich from the toll Of the wage,
earners by the men who can go to the
mountains or the seashore every sum-
mer. And we workers will soon have
parl where we can take our wives and
little ones on Sundays and our occa-
sional holidays and get breath Of
fresh air, roll in the grass, sit in the
shade, and enjoy ou selves just like
millionaires.
By all means, let every wage earner
vote for the park bonds. More than
that, let every wage Garner become s:
bond booster and campaign TO votes.
Yes, I'm about as crazy baseball
"bug" as there is in the country, and
when member of the home tea,u
makes rotten error, or the home
pitcher goes up in the air, can accum-
ulate about as huge a wad of disgust
as anybody. But I'm no knocker. I've
got too much sense to get up on my
hind legs and cuss the player who
made the error, or yell anathema at the
pitcher. I've played a little semi-profess
sional ball myself, and know how it
hurts to be cussed and damned by some
Anticipated hyena in the stand Or
bleachers. The player don't make er-
rors on purpose, and yelling at him
when he does don t help him to do bet
ter. Many,a coming player has been
ruined by consummate idiots on the
bleache.s eternally knocking. Ball play
ers are humans, and it's cinch that
they'll resent injustice, just like you
and / will. I've cussed 'em when
they've played rotten, but I did it un.
der my breath, interpolating few loud
mouthed excuses just to put a little
more ginger and confidence into the
player. For heavens sake don't knock
on the home team-that is, out loud !:
Trust the management to get rid of the
shirker and the incompetent.
And, by the way, what I've said here
about the ball players goes with the av~
erage workingman. The worker can ap-
preciate friendly boost or little
kindly oversight just like any other
human being.