Evening journal., 1912-05-08

the Seventh ward have been compelled to wade for
years through a sea Of and they have made
peated fruess appeals to the City Counclmen for
better conditions Those property owners in that
section have paying for years into the city
treasury Have they from City Council the inn
provements they have right to receive? No; but
those Councilmen, who cannot find time money
to give to Happy Valley and other districts similarly
situated and peoped by taxpayers. the things they
need can spend weeks Star Chamber conferences
sisng the tax-dodging Wilmington Terminal Company
and it's allies to have the city build a great boulevard
and street system through marsh land that does not pay
one cent the city and has not paid one
cent into it for years.
The taxpayers in the First Third and Tenth wards.
have paid for twenty-five to fifty years or
more, want Fairgrounds for their children that they
may have good health. develop physically. and make
strong and Have the City Councilmen
taken effective steps to supply to those taxpayers
those recreation centres? No; but they have found
plenty of time by Star Chamber process, to formulate
deal with the tax-dodgng Wilmington Terminal
Company and its allies that will the ultimate
expenditure Of hundreds Of thousands of dollars Of
taxpayers funds to build a boulevard and streets
through untaxed marsh land from the exploitation Of
which the marsh land spectators expect to reap big
fortunes
Taxpayers in the Eleventh ward need a new school
and have asked for IT, Have the City Councilmon
done anything Of effective nature toward supplying
it? No. they have been busy with a scheme for the
improvement with Federal and city money Of
taxed marsh tract owned by the Wilmington Terminal
Company and its allies.
Those taxpayers who live in the lower end of the
Ninth ward are menaced by frog ponds that pest
and prejudclal to the health that part Of
our city Have the City Councmen devoted their
time and energy toward bringing those taxpayers
the Ninth ward the relief which they have prayed
increasingly? No; they have been too busy trying to
assist the Wilmington Terminal Company ans its allies
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payers enough money build for marsh land specu-
laors street system that will ten-fod the
value OF the unaxed marsh that will be gridroned
by those streets.
Hundreds Of taxpayers in the Eighth and the Ninth
wards are earnestly in favor Of the city taking
and converting into riverside park those parts of the
banks of the Brandywne that known as The
Orchard" Have the City Counclmen done anything
effective to bring that about supply the 200 or
launch owners whose craft now anchor there
the improvement for which they and others have
asked? No; they have been busy assisting tax
lodging Wilmington Terminal Company and its allies
commit taxpayers of our city to a scheme to i'm
unaxed Cherry Island marsh land for the bene-
fit of private spectators. The things asked by
real taxpayers Of the city wait until the needs
of the taxdodgers have been supplied either by actual
outlay of cash or by irrevocable agreement
In the Ninth ward those taxpayers who live in the
Vandeyer and the Todds sections have petit
toned time and again for better streets They
their good money in taxes into the city treasury for
years. Is 1t because they not entitled the inn
proyements? No. but because the City Councimen ara
busy working out plan to give a great street
system to the taxdodgng Cherry Island marsh
that they have time TO be bothered with the needs
of those who pay not only their taxes but also the
taxes Of these tax-dodgers.
The taxpayers in, that section of the Second ward
beyond Third bridge have pleaded vainly for inn
! provoments in return for the taxes they have been
paying for years; the Eastake section of the Ninth
has protested vanly against the municipal neglect
to which it has been subjected although taxed to the
limit; the taxpayers in the Twelfth ward have made a
highly commendabe request for public bath; the
Board of Health is in need of additional executive Of
fees 10 protect the taxpayers and their wives child
ron, and many other improvements needed in all
sections of the city Arc the people who have had the
enterprise to build houses and who pay taxes getting
from the City Councimen these things for which they
asking? No; the City Councmen busy try
ing to provide boulevard and streets for tho tax
lodging Cherry Island marsh spectators that they
have no time to bother with the real taxpayers Such
taxpayers are small fry in thu opinion of the City
Councilnen and until the needs of the tax
dodgers have been supplied.
The City Counclmen who have planned to put this
marsh land exploitation scheme through City Council
tomorrow night may make the plea to you that il will
he years before they will call upon you put up the
money build the boulevard and the system streets
for the taxdodging marsh land spectators Do be
deceived. Private influences that bring about a
series Chamber conferences aud that can round
up your Councilmen in support of such proposition
as the that is about 10 be iammed through City
Council at your expense, will be powerful enough to
obtain it's boulevard and streets just as soon II
them. regardless of the needs the protests Of
the real taxpayers
Jesse X Baylis the Commander Of the Grand