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Show Twentieth Ward Water. FJitors Herald: Being one of the happy 20th warders ward-ers living outside of the rest of the world, as it were, allow me through your colnmns to express my profound gratitude to our benevolent city fathers for their prompt and quick answer to our petition for water. Fnr years thev have kent us in sus pense with empty promises and good-for-nothing excuses, but now we are fortunate enough to know that they will not do anything for, us. As a meagre compensation for their refusal re-fusal they have gracefully condescended condes-cended to exempt us from paying taxes.but will this great boon not also include the privilege of not voting? If my memory serves me right it was an essential qualification for voters at the last election that every one of them should be a tax-payer, nnd now we cannot longer be counted among them what will the result be? We hear the first settlers of this beautiful city brag all the time of their great work in this wilderness, but they accomplished ac-complished their end by the help of water, while hundreds of 20th warders ward-ers have built a beautiful suburb without water; and if I may extend these remarks further, please inform me whether any one man has tha right to deprive hundreds, nay thousands thous-ands of his staunch supporters of the necessities of life because the letter of the law perchance may allow him to do so? Axel. |