Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-05-24
Why Enders Kicks
On the Commission
Editor Tidings:

$S1 for printing the first report of
the springs water commission, which
the Tidings claims is the legal rate,
and says the city of Ashland and all
the attorneys pay cents per line,
the same as the springs water COM
mission paid the Tidings. In locking
the matter up find that the Ashland
Tidings and the Ashland Record have
both been printing the citys legal
business at 21a cents per line, which
would reduce Mr.. Greer's $81 bill one
half, which is still about 100 per cent
more than / pay for the same space.
While it is true pay cents per line
for readers of from two to six lines
in space, it is also a fact that / pay
15 for a full page ad, which would
have been ample space for the springs
water commissions report, as a large
amount of this had been published
as news matter in previous issues.
Who promised to print a weekly
expense report Of the springs water
commission for nothing? Burt r.
Greer did at a citizens meeting in
the Chautauqua building the night
the commission was placed in nomina-
tion. in one of Mr.. Greer's famous
speeches in which he said he (Greer)
would publish a full report of the
springs water commission every Mon
day without one dollars expense to
the taxpayers of Ashland. Is that not
true, Mr.. Greer? Please answer, Mr..
Greer. why the commissions expense
account to the council of April 20,
1915, not published until May 3, after
our last special election? Give us
your reason.
If we are only going to get so cents
on the dollar for our money spent we
cannot hope to accomplish much.
Who pays the bills? Householders
can move on, but what about the free
holders, the men who pay the bills?
Mr.. Greer says that he paid $1,400
for extra help while he was working
on the springs business, That's his
business. / am paying for extra help
myself in my business. Why? Be-
cause / do not like to work and can
make more money when l do not
work than when do. What will Mr..
Greer's next request be. Can the peo-
pie guess?
If there were only SS1 at stake
Enders would not kick, but if the
s175, 900 is to be spent on the same
basis the taxpayers would get little
value for their money. AS Enders is
one of the heavy taxpayers he has a
right to kick.
| believe it is up to the city council,
after receiving the springs water COM
missions report, to publish it if they
see fit to do so, and not a part of the
springs water commissions business
to have it published. Inasmuch as
the city council is getting this class
of work done for 2 " cents per line
and the springs water commission is
paying cents per line, thus saving
the taxpayers one-half of their money,
/ believe this business should be left
in the hands of the city council We
either have very capable city coun-
Gil or a very poor lot of business men
on our water commission. There
should not be 100 per cent difference
on single expense item.
Pardon me, gentle reader, for this
lengthy article, but l have said moth
ing about the Smith-Emery contract
or automobile repairs. If had lit
tie newspaper of my own l would
fully inform you about other matters
of Importance. H. G. ENDERS.
GREER'S REPLY: / have never
agreed to print the report without
charge.
The city does not pay 21a cents
per line for it's legal publications. 1t
pays cents per line. The Tidings
and Record made an agreement with
each other that we would print the
city legal notices in both papers, both
using the same type, and that we
would divide the cents per line.
That was an agreement between the
Ashland Record and Tidings and the
council had nothing TODD with it.
The city now and always has paid 8 f!
cents the line for its legal advertis-
ing.
Mr.. Enders is simply mistaken
about that just as he has been about
everything else since this springs
matter started. If he quit kicking |
and started boosting for a while his !
stomach would not hurt so bad.