Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-05
IN HIS OWN LIGHT.

workingman can make is to oppose the
extension Of water mains and sanitary
sewers in the fear that II will Increase
his living expenses and make his al
ready heavy burdens more onerous.
or course every little bit OF taxation
helps to add to its weight, tho the
amount required for these propositions
will be very small In proportion to the
benefits accruing from their consum-
nation. We would like to say a good
word for the other propositions in
cluded in the bond issue TO be voted
upon. for they are all good Investments
and will pay back IA great profit. not
to a favored few, but to every citizen
who makes this his permanent home.
and more than all to the workingman.
lie. OF all men. has the most to lose If
the proposition falls to receive popular
endorsement. for he is the one OF all
most vulnerable to the hardships and
misfortunes that must inevitably re-
suit from a failure of the bonds to
carry. The richer people may make
their own provisions for supplying the
deficiency Ia municipal providence. but
the poor man cannot afford TO do so.
lie must take what comes, whether II
be destructive fires which our limited
water facilities make us unable to con-
qucr, or whether II be to lose his loved
ones I'm an epidemic created and spread
by lack OF sanitary provisions. If he
In t5 l,,i
effects, he will want to have extended
re-fghting facilities. And II he val
ues the health of himself and family
he will want water and sewer connec-
tions. not alone to the older portions
Of town, but out into the newer por-
tons where fires and epidemics are
most likely to flourish.
II Is urged by some that these ex-
lpenditures should be postponed until
war conditions have cleared up, on the
plea that II stands us in hand to econo-
mize. II is necdful to economize but
there is no economy in stinting our
selves of the means necessary to pro-
tect us against loss by fire and disease.
Such provisions are necessities of the
highest order, and IL is little short of
criminal to neglect them longer. That
is not economy, II is parsmoniousness
the kind OF economy which leads to
misery and panics. II is not well for
the country, nor is 1t well for the city.
that needful expenditures should be
cut off. 1t is the purely selfish view
of the man who says that my pocket
book must be safeguarded even If 1t
costs the lives and the welfare of my
neighbor to do IT, No successful town,
no patriotic nation, was ever made up
of citizens acting under this motive.
II some of the items proposed are not
quite as necessary as the others. those
who are timid might lop them off from
the ballot to satisfy their fears, but by
all means do not vote against the ex-
tension of waterworks and sewers.
Even from Il selfish motive you should
vote for these two, for the benefits
they will bring TO you especially II
you are wage-earner, will more than
compensate for the money you will
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ton. The benefit you will nave will
be not only an immediate one, but one
that will extend thruout coming years.
| We have purposely omitted any
reference TO increased real estate val
ues. altho great number of Tulsa's
workingmen either wholly or partially
own their own homes and stand in
line to profit as quickly by any such
increase as any of the men who make
a business of trading in real estate.
and that enrichment will mean IA big
ger thing 10 you than to the speculator.
His little commission is only a drop
in the bucket and all in days work.
but to you II means n step on the lad
der to Independence. Grasping land
lords exist in all ages and all COM
munities and some OF them will pinch
the renter. no doubt. but II that renter
is wise, and II he has any reasonable
assurance of remaining citizen of
this town for several years, he will
lose no time in securing in his own
name a patch Of ground and planting
his family thereon out of the reach of
landlords of any kind. And, above all
right now, let us guard against the
danger OF Indifference causing defeat
OF the bond issue by default. Let
every man. the workingman especially
make 1t a point to come out and vote
on the day when this subject is sub
mitted for popular decision.
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