The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-05-10

DO YOU REMEMBER that about
ten years ago we bonded to the limit
to get money to build a city hall
and to lay sewer system? Do you
recall that number of persons were
greatly worried and predicted that
it would bankrupt the city? Do you
recall that they proposed as an al
ternative that we should rent Off
ces for the city business, forget
about sewer and keep the saloons
open and stick to Sound business
principles in the effort to keep mon
ey in the school fund?
DO YOU REMEMBER that it was
freely predicted that the jails would
be full and the courts congested
with bootlegger litigation, the
schools with (liquor license) money
and our city warrants selling below
par and nothing to redeem them
with If we went on with radical
measures to stop the sale of liquor
and keep up an expensive sewer sys-
tenn that would have to be flushed"
by a paid sewer commission draw
ing salary all the time?
DO YOU REMEMBER that it was
freely predicted that when the sa-
looms closed there would be empty
buildings everywhere about the busi-
ness blocks, the town would be dead,
bartenders and others would be out
of employment and hard times would
follow? Did you notice that none
of those things happened land did
you notice that the people who were
so far wrong in those predictions
were nearly always the ones who
improvements that called
for bonds?
DO YOU REMEMBER that we ex-
pended about quarter of a million
dollars of borrowed money for paw
ing in 1916 and that half as much
more private capital was expended
for new buildings bordering the
pavements the next year that would
not have been done if the paving
bonds had been defeated?
Did you know that we have al
ready paid back one-third Of that
bond money and saved the streets
from an impossible condition with
the heavy traffic that has come?
Fancy the dust and mud of earth
streets in the business section now,
and the heavy expense of combating
it?
HAVE YOU OBSERVED that all |
he new business houses since 1916 |
have been built where there was |
pavement? Have you noticed that |
he cemetery has always been self
and that the treasurer's
'eport last week showed everything
,aid and $2500 in the treasury?
lave you noticed that people who
opposed the paving in 1916 were
,roud of it as soon as it was laid,
md most of them want paving in
ront of their dwellings now? II
CAN YOU FORESEE that the tre-
nendous development of this county
lue to the construction of canals,
forage reservoirs and sugar fac
cries in the next ten years will force
,lackfoot to grow up or witness new
owns springing up near it to handle
he business that naturally belongs
n the old town and will come here
I we will only provide facilities for
it? Have you noticed that
very canal company in the county
) planning expenditures for irriga-
ion in sums varying from ten thou
and dollars to half a million? Do
ou think Blackfoot can afford to
low down on her plans for laying
aving and waterworks and expect
o keep her place in business?
Do you know anybody who is go !
ng to vote against the paving bond
save Is cents tax on
1900 valuation? Where would the
own be in it's development compared
vith the rest Of the valley If 1t fol-
owed that penny-squeezing policy
or the next ten years?
VOTE "BONDS YES" and stay in
he game!