The Idaho Republican., 1915-01-22
REDUCING THE TAXES
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and those who made them did go the meeting with the
courage of conviction and oppose the methods and give their
and stand their ground and fight They simply made
their little kicks and sad away that difficult
whether their objections based upon principle upon
antpaon of losses that might to the merely upon
feelings of eaousy of official who receiving something
like $3.50 SITS month for his services The fact that they
did stand up the meeting and present their lent color
the suspicion that they prompted by ealoucy and that a
feced the final which follow the that lead
to losses
stated in the meeting, that required the presence of
the Inspector for hour the morning and again the
afternoon keep track of the testing and how the
work DONE 1t charged that during the time he was
seng the he be needed police officer and might
That if shrewd person wishing commit crime should
take advantage of his habua absence those certain periods
would give decided advantage to the criminal 1t also stated
the contractors wanted to take advantage of the Inspector
the city both and do poor work they could do while
he away police duty That there should be inspector
the line all the time the work being done and that as the
contractors pay the salary the city did need worry
about the expenses and permit arrangement by which the in
pection done at less than the cost of one aborer
Against this argued that the chief of police might be
interested and dependable some other man who
might be employed for the task and that he might be police
officer for years would be advantage to the city
to have him familiar with every block of the system
Regarding the services secretary and collector for the
company he said he did the posting of books Sundays on
his time, and did the collecting while standing around watch
ing the city, and could stop the step into an
otce and collect the money we'll be the same place
doing nothing He perfectly frank about the whole matter
regard all three lines of service and said that if the council
mad any preference or they could decide what they wanted or
what best safest be desired and would tell him
what were their wishes he would arrange his engagements accord
ingy.
The council finally shoudered the whole responsibility bv
telling him to continue just he had been doing land the work went
on through the that plan.
Not many people know how to lay and do the back
hlg Not many people knew what the contract required The
public press was not giving the details the public so much then
and the aman had not the chance to discover anvhno
wrong as might have been publicity had been conducted with
hat IN view and If the readers had been reading with view
nc circumstances a followed lead people to reflect upon what
they had seen but had taken about and these
Of the for reflection
When the rains and of the fall and winter came
contact with the loose earth and rock in the sewer trenches
here settling that indicated that had neither been puddd
1o tamped People began to remark that had been dmped
dry from bottom to top and statements that
vas not even pudded about the pipes was we'll known that
ne bacng OF the layers least had been done with
cam and scraper and without amping to settle =
Wherever there was low ground the sewer line and the water
accumulated from rain melting snow it would run into th
rench and settle and places required several loads Of dirt
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