El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-09
CITY /
FIGHTING SMELLS
Papers Declare 0dors From
Stockyards a Public
Nuisance.

"Touchin' on ar appertainin' to
stock yards and their smells as they
affect kansas city the Kansas City
Times of Dec. z, in an editorial, under
the caption of 'Nuisances,H says:
wholly apart from the question Of
who should pay for abating a public
nuisance, a nuisance ought to be abated.
If some profit could be made from do
ing away with the packing house odoIs
they would be done away with. They
ought to be done away with, although
there is a cost involved instead Of a
what is called the police power Of
society is bottomed more strongly upon
considerations of public health than
upon any other consideration, that IS
the courts will uphold measures, taxes
any kind of community actions to safe
guard public health more literally than
they viii uphold exceptional actions for
any other use
Fragrance Goes With Beauty.
"a beautiful rose with a jimson weed
smeU would not be the favOrite that tho
rose is. Fragrance goes along with
beauty in the making of an attractive
This editorial from the Kansas City
Times is only n Of man which have
appeared in that and other Kansas City
apers during the past 10 days or since
the reopening of the fight by the peO-
nile Of kansas City for the abatement
of the smells arising from the stock
wards which make life miserable in the
big city on the Kaw and exemplifies the
attitude Of the press OF that city to-
ward the smell makers.
As the Times says above, if the smells
could be abated at a profit the packers
would fall over themselves to abate
them. As there is no profit to be taken
the public must pay the cost.
It is this public be damned" attitude
Of the packers that has aroused
the fighting spirit Of Kansas Citians
and the chances for the abatement Of
the nuisances, this time, seem good.
Ell PasO should Take Warning.
FL Paso should take warning. The
time to abate stock yards nuisances is
now, before the stock yards are given
an opportunity to acquire vested rights
and become entrenched so strongly that
their removal will prove a costly opera
ton. Costly TO the public in loss of
comfort and depreciation of values and
called upon to reimburse the nuisance
makers for money invested.
Why the Delayg
The stockyards question has been
hanging fire in the city council for
nearly two months. The passage Of
all this time has been before the city
council would make it impossible for
a condition to arise in FL PasO such
as now cOnfrOnts the people Of Kansas
City.
The city government does not act.
It gives as a reason for its nOn-actlun
that the questions at issue are Of such
tremendous Importance that they must
be given the most careful c~Onsideras
ton.
Questions Are Simple.
The questions It issue are so simple
as to be merely elemental. They are
Of tremendous Importance" but are
not so involved as to require b ap-
p~lication of anything but ordinary COM
mon sense. In the meantime the delay
is d~emoralizing the business of the cat
tlemen. If stockyards are to be per-
mitted within the city limits, in the
future as in the past, they want to
know il, in order that they may close
the option on the property they have
acquired for stockyards purposes n
begin the erection of their yards. II
they are to go out into the country, the
cattlemen would like to know that, IN
order that they may close options on
outside property which they W Sc
cured and begin the erection of yards
and feed lots and arrange for the estah-
lishment in connection Herewith OF a
killing plant for which outside capital
has already been engaged.
Action is what is wanted n the city
government is unfair to itself, to the
business interests of the city and TO the
cattIemen by continuing the delay.-
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