Show P HOW ABOUT WATER t I cw jays since wo briefly outlined our position on alio city water question taking lio ground lint aliis was 11 enuch sin and that in getting it t under way our city fathers should stand not upon thu order of acting but act at once the article in question aliat liat elicited ous common dottory expressions froia our reader coupled with that tho war into africa wo ware confident HI the eliat large of tho people would support us in alio position taken but apart from eliat ere that it was the couche to for it cannot be denied thit th it more and better vater accas at a moments notice is one of tho arc attest if not of our public necessities at a mentis of promoting by supplying the pomplo with drinking fluid nn contAminated by the filth accumulated along alio line of every or by the local irn purifies puri ties abiding in the soil throughout tha city it would ba unet while in inner in which the could bo sprinkled would be such a vast improvement upon the inadequate method eliat our midsummer mid summer air would be measurably mitigated and ono of the greatest of our op shorn of much of its virulence so far wo presume there is no division of opinion alio point ut which our path and eliat of boina of our divra ih urien we come to the by ali ii it is proposed to construct the water works we favor the issuing of bonds for such sum as kiy bo required in elcess of what may bo on taking tiie position that the end justifies the means they aro to it bo cause averso to on general principles and support the proposition thai to be out of debt ii to bo free from a host of annoyances cannot contend them un that ground as a and unconnected plan we mu it insist upon the point provi outly made thai that freedom froni obligations which leaver us in a condition of constant alrin and inconvenience coats us more alian the interest on four times H as ii required to exemption would coma boand is iree don too dearly prized A mone monetary tiry debt kiy be a bad enough thing but the debt we orto to ourselves and our of cc curing life health and if unpaid is corae to ahli and hesitate over hiie oart few tousand dollars of city bunds alie muni i would be burdened with an bearing obligation 13 but guarding the bung with unnecessary zail while tho is wido open if a fire were to break out anywhere in the business martof the city west of main the chances arethas are that it would leveto burn until arrested by some other means alian water for hero ii not an available reservoir or aqueduct that could not bo pumped dry in a few minutes we may rot another fire for years and wo may have onto morrow and wisdom dictates tatt the latter contingency tin gency be the one let ua have water |