The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-09
Proposed City Market Plan Which Was Endorsed by Mem
bers of Club Although No Action Was Taken

Deen the mOrCO, anQ In Fargo, we, the
members of the Commons club" and
other citizens, happen to be the "fu-
ture genration," and are now taking
care of debts contracted long ago and
In the greater. part past due, and until
stringent laws are passed, making it
very expensive for city officials to de-
nberately let the annual budget be-
come an ordinance without providing
the levy for the amount necessary to
pay its bonds at maturity, I can see
no relief.
1t is not the robber or the tramp
VINO became angry when asked to
clean up his back alley. 1t is not al
ways the most lawless people who
throw watermelon rinds put in the
back yard on a hot day. There are few
poor people (and I have yet to learn
OF a single beggar), who run their
automobiles at a rate of thirty miles
an hour on the streets Of Fargo. for
get to stop on the right side of. the
street, runs at night without lights,
and when picked up by the policeman,
who is simply doing, his duty, curses
n a same policeman and the city.
Why is it that plain clothes police
men are required to see that people
get a ton Of coal by having it weighed
On the city scales?
Ask yourself a few questions before
you condemn the. city official because
ne let's a few poor unfortunates pass
by without giving them the limit Of
the law.
The good Lord pity that babe who
mas to live or die on milk which is sold
upon the open market. Fargo has late
~ authorized the dividing Of the city
INTO three districts, and it is hoped to
thereby get. an accounting system that
VIII DrOnnrtVa I0nnt tho rN.~rfro-.z-I
What is the best way to regulate
the sale Of milk? When is a city large
enough to ~1naugurate a central milk
STATION! Ih1s question must sooner or
later be taken up and worked out, and
1t is hoped that the question OF milk
peddl1ng, and the garbage problem can
be handled by districts. .
Do the citizens of Fargo want q
central market, and will it be patron
lzed TO such an extent that it will be
a success, is a question.
f. That the law regulating the sale of
certain goods, is a good law no one
disputes, but because a law is neces-
sary TO prevent those who would from
| selllng diseased meat, is no good rea-
son why hundreds Of farmers should
be restricted from selling good meat to
those who wish to buy. People should
no be obliged to bow dow and wor-
snip a few meat kings" and the pre-
sident OF Fargo has no hesitancy in
going on record as being in favor of a
piace under police regulation, where
an xmas or produce can be inspected,
free or cost to the seller. and thai
proper regulations so surround such
system, whereby all kinds of farm pro-
duce can be transferred from the nro-
Queer to the consumer at the lowest
possible cost.
There is something radically wrone
When 1t is hard to get nice fresh to-
matoes at a reasonable cost, when
bushels of them are rotting on the
ground In your own county. The
question Is, will the people of Fargo
carry the market basket, Or will they
soon tire of the new toy and 90 back
10 the telephone, free delivery. have
It charged, wait for the collector Il
all, and Their stand him off. and fine
tault' with the high cost Of living. :
II Wesare to reduce the high cost Of
living, we must reduce the high cos
or doing business. When it costs NOR,
70 handle a piece of meat than il, doe,
20 raise 1t, it Is about time for tn,
people to sit up and take note. I hav,
no quarrel with legitimate costs. lie
me price be What it may, but coli
storage restriction Of trade, hroWin:
fruit into the seas that the surn1ui
may be kept down, is not in keepin.
with good government and should no
be tolerated by thinking people.
Few people stop to think that whe,
they ask for a special Improvement
they are asking the city to mortgag
their property for from ten to twent,
years, as the case may be-. That spe
cial improvements are necessary il
certain parts Of the city is beyond al
question Of. dispute, but when a cit,
reaches the age of Fargo, the citizen
should be slow in asking the civ +,
create debts faster than they reduc,
them. Ao0"o
Fargo is reducing her special debt,
at the rate of over $50, 900 per wear
and 1t must be apparent to all that i
we do not contract debts at a rat,
in excess Of what Is paid each yea,
the annual growth Of our CITY viii
soon put us in an enviabla position
TOR, as 1t is, Fargo's fnances are !,
better condition than most cities al
talk to the contrary. Under the law
cities in North Dakota have a lega
right to bond for. CERTAIN purposes II,
to 5 per cent of their taxed value
The city Of Fargo has not reached
per cent, while there are some citia,
which have reached far beyond an,
find 1t impossible to refund their M,
! per for that reason.
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