The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-03-25

+ rourtn-Dy Ciu5e knit organiZe-
ton and personal supervision of his
department, the commissioner haa
shown an increase OF nearly 100 per
cent In the quantity and quality OF the
| work done. R'''' ~
"In Spokane public improvements
have been eheapened from IA to. .46 per
cent. 73IN'N
"The cleaning Of the streets, the up.
lkeepsof our public institutions and the
tservice, rendered to ur people for less
money than under the Old systerri.f 'Gi'T
- 1911 Ne More Cheap Politics.
l5hf"The city hall has been redeemed
from. that odiuni OF graft ana cheap
ipoliticg and Sha forsE Our critics say
tabout us is that we are nfonafehical
and non-representatiye,can and that some
Of us lack business ability. i;n
H." The, present city council Is meet
ing additional fixed charges such as
$685. 600 for parks and Fairgrounds;
Sl,000,000 for COZ. crete bridges; $780,
GOO for q new city hall: and $500, 900 in
Stneet lights. sewer and other public
/ in provesnents not assessed TO aDut-
ting property. - We have Also taken
lup $1,2S0.000 OF outstanding water
warrenttt which were drawing siS per
cant and we're being discounted; an
other Ave per cent. at the banks, and
have funded that in q twenty-year wa
ter bond seria, at 5 per cent. SO that
now We can buy oer supplies in the
open market for one hundred cents
| on the dollar. Z s
"The Milwaukee railroad. having
purchased one side OF one OF our busi-
| ness streets, has withdrawn nearly
two million dollars OF property fro,
our city assessment .:aaiillss, as this Is
now taxed as operative property un-
der the state law, and yet With elI
these additional fixed charges and Iae
lshrinkage IN assessment values, we
have reduced taxation $90D00, ana for
the first time in over ten years the
fiscal year was closed without. aSdef4
tcit apnropriat % = ~ .
Has Helped Sp0kaAAs !
That Spokane has not suffered, hut
rather has been revived dnderi COM
Imission government Is evidenced BY
the fact that juat now there are over
sci, 200, ,000 In public improvements by
railroads, power companies and piiG
Vate citizens, not Id contemplation,
but In actual process OF construction.
I'm regard to the moral condition OF
the city, It Is only To De saii that thc
law is being enforced and there is no
comnnercializing OF vice. Over forty.
ls9Iocns have gone out OF business
since the commission form OF govern
ment was adopted, many OF these IL
censes having been cancelled by the
city council and others forced out or
business on account OF the eaforce-.
n1ent OF the law.
The socia1 evil has been eliminated
| so TAR as institutional and CONNER
ciai phases OF IL are concerned, and
while there Is doubtless great deal
/ OF clandestine vice being pra ctieedl In
certain lodging houses and hotels, yet
THE atetAlnassf has hAnM eepaategiltsl
made on public platEornls That there
s e .sss . = &C. ssTi
OF Spokane where . refson caIEnot SO
with d IitsIe child ana seen no eondi-
ti5n6 other perhaps than 4 drflazcfl
tndn, Whfcfi won lpgh, to
the cheek OF a. child or ail apology
from his guardians isps,
- The FOfs Fer sse ST
An article mnat have except tiane1
merit to survive 3 period of forty
| years. Chambe beflain2s Cough Remedy
was fifst offered 70 the public IN 1872,
From q small beEfnhfR e Ssa5, flFCSTSni
m aTS a "a " 5jDHi arfllT uE1lI * haa
lobtainea a world wild repa asipn. yoli
win And kcthing better for q cough
or cold. Try it and yct VIII ppdef-
stand why it s. q fnsoflte nftef 81 pe-
Sioa Ok more than forty years. It not