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Show ).iE 3PRIS3YILLE iNBtPtNBEf.l gJJ 11. -! J.-L - - "- ' Willi 3i F- Gib3oa, EJitor and Manager- Entered at tlio post odlce :it Sppinj; villi. tUJi. tor tranamlsaion through Uie mails u toa4-claM uuttter. Issued every Fri.Jay. r : ' TE3M3 OF 3U3SCRIPTION. Onoywir, .... $Hio 'lx msnths, .... 1.00 rWrtH! months. "5 1BER 0FTJV Association MVSU U'AL VOYEltSMEST OS li VSl SESS 1'ItlSClPLES. Many people arc incline! U doubt whether municipal owner-ship owner-ship of electric light plant, waterworks system, street rail way lines, etc., i of any benefit to the comminutes in which llipy are operateil. The New York World has collected a hum-of hum-of statistics urnl other informa tion which goes to show that municipal ownership is the proper pro-per thing from economic nnd business stand points. From a lengthy article on this subject we submit the fullowingexiracU as likely to be of interest to SpHngville people who can not make up their minds which way t vote on the electric light proposition: pro-position: "The easiest source of this infoimiition is l)v. Albert Shaw's two hooks on the governments of European Cities His nsseni-bly nsseni-bly of facts excites the interest, the amazement and the envy ol every American reader. The book devoted to I&ritish cities is especially interesting to us because be-cause the 15iitislv people have met nd nre meeting the same problems that now distrub us, mid have solved and are solving iheni in ways that are open to us. "Let us look at a few of the facts about the three chief Urit ish municipal organizations Glasgow, Glas-gow, Manchester and Birmingham. Birming-ham. Let us see how their governments respond to Mr. Bryce'stest of municipal government govern-ment 'What does it provide for the people and what does it cost the people?' "Glasgow contains about 750,-.000 750,-.000 people. Manchester's population popu-lation is 520,000, but its municipal muni-cipal government directly benefits bene-fits three millions Birmingham has about 4-10,000 within its corporate limits. All these cities are newer than any of the great American cities All have had their real growth in the last twenty five years. All their plans for good government, begun be-gun about the time of the close of our civil war exactly the period when New York and the other American cities fell into tht hands of bosses turl rings of eorruptionists. They are governed govern-ed by an electorate that in no essential respect differs from ours. The masses of the people rote end have absolute power over their public servants, the officials. They select a municipal muni-cipal council that administers ihe city's affnrs by dixilin itself it-self into executive committees, one committee at the head of each department of the public service. These councilors serve without pay and, although elections elec-tions are frequent, changes in the council from causes other than death are comparatively rar. "In their municipal campaigns cam-paigns the questions of national r other than city politics are never discussed. Local affairs only are issues. Tarty lines do not exist. Nominations for of-iice of-iice can be made and are made by a petition signed by ten names a proposer of the candidate, can-didate, a seconder and eight -other i. Yet there are few candidates can-didates and even few contests. ..An official who serves the city well is practically never opposed fe-r re-election. , "All this is the result of a ingle cause the complete divorce of politics from city affairs. "There ought to be no more sentiment about running a city than there is about running a dry good storo,' said Richard Croker in an interview in The Wui .1 he o; ! r day. 1 ,i i he-e cities ihi-i i.uyht to jj li a fuel,' niiil has been brought about b ; l lie driving from municipal ! campaigns of SU';ll distinction? j HC..U-trVMliV0 and Liheial, the' ,, .. . mi ,. n ' Lllgllsll para.lel (I Welliociilt an 'I Republican , high tarilf man and tariff reiormer. "in these three cities, and in scores of smaller English cities, the chief .-oiirces of revenue is not by diieet taxation of the people, as it is in New Yoik ami Brooklvn. The moat of the ex penses of government are pan out of the income from public woiks water, ga", elect i ici i y , street rall'.iav .-, etc. 'The mo.-t of the municipal J pepai Intents are almost or quite ! self-supporting. Many t.f inein And irVJOO.OOO of this sum eome-pay eome-pay a large profit liwiL. goes to 1 from i lo Broad way roi.d which, uecrea-e the t.ixes for such necessi.ry uii lofilable depart - ineiits as police, lire, salt. t n sewage. "The municipal bonded debts ate large almost as large in proportion as those of New York and Brooklyn. But llie inUicsi charge is paid for the most pari out of ihe profits of municipal enterprises, and is not collected in taxes as it is here. "Year by year the taxes there ate glowing smaller. In Glasgow Glas-gow there are now practically no general taxes. In Manchester and Birmingham the general lales are small. And the principal prin-cipal of the debt is constantly decreasing. "In New ' York the debt i.- growing ear by year. Now a Tweed adds 40,000,000 to it in two years. Now a Tammany Hall, to 'keep down the tax-rate nnd make a good r-howing,' jumps it up $10,000,000 or so u four or live year.' Even a multi-partisan reform administration adminis-tration has added severs! mill ions to the city's debt. And the interest charge falls heavily ti on the people, already burdened bur-dened by the current expenses of the government, which are raised almost entirely by direct taxes that swell rents and re duce wages. ' ' I n G 1 a sgo w I h e si rre l ra i U ay s are now owned and ruu by I lie city at a large profit. Yet Ihe average fare is about two cents, and there are workingtnen's trains morning and evening on which the charge is only one cent. "Until two years ngo the railways, rail-ways, which were built by the city, were leased to a ptivate company which paid its stock-bidders stock-bidders 10 per cent dividends nfler paying the city annually: (1) The total interest charge on city's investment; (2) enough to accumulate into a sinking fund big enough to pay off the total first cost of the roads at tin end of the lease; (3) enough to reini-1 tieney of the V ire department is burst-the city for nil repairs i greatly increased. The cot ol und renewals, and (-1) an annual!1110 Wl,u'r "l,l,ul il quarter of a rental of $750 n mile. And i (,Ml1 11 (lil.V lor each inhabitant they were allowed to charge oil ! At this price the debt of the the average about two and a Will(M' wolks is l,0'J? rapidU luil f i pit mi it filial paid "Manchester built its street railways and leased llieni to n company which pays the city interest on the cost and a net dividend of 10 per cent per annum. Yet this company may charge only about three cents, and must run two-cent working-men's working-men's trains morning and evening. j "In Bil'muigh.yV'-rtJtAt..; wifcte company which jL.t-p uis.il ihe streetcar lines built by ihe cily pays all the interest charges, is paying off the first cost of the roads, pays the cily in full for keeping the lines riijerfect repair, re-pair, and chai(i(7n cqtiaVV ' ,,ie same fares as Chij iif Manchester. Man-chester. At tho expiration of the lease Birmingham, like Manchester, will own the lines outright, free from "all encumbrances encum-brances and in perfect condi-tion. condi-tion. "In New York tho street-railway franchises have been either sold for a song or given away outright. The street railways charge five-cent fares, pay the smallest possible heed to public convenience and comfort, and altogether bring into the city treasury about $352,000 a year. Dcot Cough Syrup, 'trntu OuuJ. Ci: LUKtS WIUKt All Uil lAlli. (uugh Syrup. TaHwUowl. 1 In tlinn. Sold tT rtnitffflKK ful lfl.t. JVii iiv a rm Medical value ii" a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparllla ' tkuii.iyo-i.TW-purutioii. Mora skill, more care, more-expose in maim- factiue. It co:U proprietor and d'-al. r More but itcosutin: consumer ta,as he gets mure doses for Ins munry More curative power rs socitrcl liy Its peculiar eoml)hi:it!"ii. roport im ami prows. MOrO Wolllli'l'llll Clin-S ittwtni Illoiv lestillloll- uumlals, more sales and more Increase. Many more, reasons wliy yon slionlil take Sarsaparilla One Tw Wood I'nnfier. Ail drugmsU $1 , are th. niily pills to take 1100113 I'lllS Hithllo'i(l'sSaisapari;i;i. j under the s sin : eii ies, would be Ol lilt! IJIIllSl) paying upward .I 1 of $ 5 000,1)00 ! "In Glasgow the gan and electric light plants ate owned ami operated by the ( i'v. I' has built inw woiks. It ha paid off half the ol iginal deb! . It has accumulated a large sinking sink-ing fund. Yet it has reduced the price of gas to (il) ecnls the thousand feel, and that, loo, in the face ol I he fact I hat t he price of gas-making coal has greatly advanced. To prevent the electric elec-tric lighting from making serious ser-ious i n roads on I he u -e of gas, it. has started a system of renting rent-ing gis stoves. 'Ihe cost to the taxpayer of street lighting in Glasgow is le.-s than $100,000. and that sum is constantly reducing. re-ducing. Like the gas works, the electt ic light plant is on a business basis and will soon be paying for itself, with no cost to the taxpayer. "1 -i Manchester t lie city sup plies gas at 00 cents ihe thousand thous-and feet, and the gas works earn for 1 he city, over ami abuvo all expenses. $500,000 a year, $200,-000 $200,-000 of which gees to pay interest inter-est on the gas debt and $:.!()0,000 of which is .paid into the city treasury to reduce general taxes. "Birmingham bought out the private gas companies at a huge rate. Yet it at once reduced gas to 75 cents, making even on Mint basis a profit of $170,000. Gas is now 50 cents the thousand thous-and feet "New York gets nothing from its gas companies but a rather inferior quality of gas. It. pays them and tho electric lighting companies about $1,000,000 a year for public lighting. And citizens of New York have to pay $1. "JO the thousand feet and are charged (or leakage under the extort ioiiule system of the Gas Trust. "Glasgow has a perfect supply of absolutely pure water at a pressure so high that the elFi- "Munches1 or had to go ninety-live ninety-live miles for Us water supply, ami Birmingham had to go eighly miles. In both cities the water works are more than self-sustaining, self-sustaining, although the water rents are not much higher than those of (ilasgow. "New York, whhh had to go only four miles further than Glasgow for its wa'er supply, will not pay off its water debt for at least forty years. Yet water rents in New York are more than four times as high on the most favorable average as those of Glasgow. And New Yoi k's system cost far inorethiiii even the Manchester system with its ninety-live miles of aqueduct.". ruoiumnox does vvouiniv. Of the numerous Utah papers which have commented on The Independent's remarks concerning concern-ing prohibition ami its workings in l his city, only one, The Commonwealth Com-monwealth (Judgo Boreman's paper), says a word in favor of no license. The Common wealth said: The Salt Lake Tribune makes the following note of the effort at Spring-ville Spring-ville to enforce the law against Ihpmr selling: "The Independent is objecting to the sort of prohibition they have in Sprinnville, staling it 'a rotti;n mockery. mock-ery. ' Hut there Is one thing that prohibition pro-hibition can generally lie counted up- i on to l "1 1 I i' , aial I lie I let! is I h lid ting of any K otl liipioi ; 1 lie mir-rcoiitioiis mir-rcoiitioiis trallic invariably supplies tliecluap and vile, but furnishes it in ie th. in plenty.'' It is a suiiree uf satisfaction to find Hi it. Uie Tribune is wllliiiif to admit., ill it prohibitation does jao-bibit jao-bibit the- tfctt icg of ((toil liijuor. If it will car- fully examine the statistics it will Und tint whenever the f-n-foKenient of the laws against liquor vending has been in Ihe hands of otlli-ers liieiiillv to the law, there was enforcement. It is true there were suae violationsof ihe Uw, but the same may be s.iid of the laws of murder mur-der and larceny. Itecause these laws are soinelliiKS violated, it does not follow that there is not a general enforcement en-forcement of the law. In the State of Kansas, for exampl , in every instance, in-stance, we believe, where the G iV-enor iV-enor and Ids ;ip oinUes and the local ofuctrs favored enforcement, there was a genuine enforcement. In ll.e riiy of Topeku are many children, grown well toward manhood and womanhood who never aw a drunken man in Unit city until within tin; late noii-enfoiceinent period. peri-od. Sol Miller, a Democratic editor, who originally opposed prohibition cam.' out strongly in its favor alter he saw that lik was mistaken in saying say-ing that it c add nut he enforced. In Leavenworth and some other cities t lie opponents of power and did not 1 In y said it could not toey did not I hat State the (Jo the law were in want it enforced, not b'j enforced -try it. Lately in veriinr and his ap pointees have antagonized the prohibition pro-hibition law, and. of Course, its enforcement en-forcement cannot be had. In every state, county, and city where there have been anti-liipiur laws, and the otli.-ers were fi iumliy to their enforcement, enforce-ment, there lias been as good enforcement enforce-ment of prohibition laws as of any other laws. We have twice, heretofore, hereto-fore, referred to ihe enforcement of the law against Sunday selling in New York t'ity. It could not have (scaped the attention of tho Tribune that the boaid of police commissioners, commission-ers, headed by Theudorc Roosevelt, found no m ire ditlli'ulty in enforcing that law than any other. The "I racl ically closed'' the lhpior selling places on Sundays in that great city, anil liquor, good, bad, or indifferent, could not be obtained except in a siuidl way. The statement that "the surreptitious t rattle invariably supplies sup-plies ihe cheap and vile lint furnishes K. in more than nlenty," is a mistake so far at 'east as the hitter Hause is concerned. 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