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Show JCIMS FOR BONDS fertffs Issue Should Be One Mil- JHion Insteat of Six Hun-drcd Hun-drcd Thousand. CATTER THAT CONCERNS ALL POOR MEN e-i-Spey Will Be Expended , in J3j Payment of the Work- icnttfgl 1Hb 1UC" BiBvgf M .lOiil am unqualifiedly iu favor of the jfjJS of $600,000 worth 'of bonds to nd out proposed improvements to tho Kjrijcr and sewer systems of the city, " Ejjjllormer Mayor Ezra Thompson, inp.m asked his opinion on the question, intiiljj'fact, T thiuk that instead of bciug ew!atfi$G0O,O00, it might as well be $1,000,-ftl8iiicc $1,000,-ftl8iiicc T am afraid that the small-iWaftsne small-iWaftsne will not be enough to carry out Spf tlic improvements which should ijJP'his matter is a pure business ut-ox ut-ox .iW' conlinuod JUr. Thompson, "not-ensrjhstanding "not-ensrjhstanding the attempt of some peo-?3fto peo-?3fto make it a political affair. The llifi's tll!lt certain things in the water olIdlsyem nuv become, antiquated. The luartajl-iiich pipes on t he nortli bench arc g.ldod instance. While they may have tljn sufficient to care for the scetiou tiwhieh they were designed when they placed 'there, on account of the gifWnendous growth which has taken tftfr?0 ''thin the past few years the xmmPs a,c ,lo;v t0 sma'!- n 'ulilition ,r?fSy are corroded so that rhey are equal c.'5iiany cases to pipes of only two u?,es l,'a,n-,t-,r. "nvauv sections of the i'ity have no acfsers at all and many extensions of ie Dlsewer 5yst-(Mn 11 ro .necessary to pro-taije pro-taije for the hoiiies which are ouslunil.y InTii&ng erected. These improvomonts are i KnrtVnecessities and concern all the pco-inSitpf. pco-inSitpf. the city. veM Conccms the Poor Man. t dlfc'" ,ac 'lc 'ssuc of the bonds eon-jjns eon-jjns the poor men of the city most of e0Ipsince thev arc the j)eoplc wjio are rail5- ut'feeted carrying out of iajwork. The fact is that' most of tho f jds will be takpn by capitalists frrtin ?wide the cit, so'tliat Ihcir sale will 5 jinthat $G0(),00U will be broughi into IKcily to be spent here. This means mjonal cash in the city to be paid ralPc workiug nien who do the work. , i jiff ho property owners nre, of course, Scfited bv the increase in the value g-Atlie property which they own, and Jjccivc so in tic- li more benefit from aRrrowth and advancement of tho ,;i5aud the permanent improvements 1S are carried out." Tsked if there could bj any question u jRc money being diverted from I he an "pose for which it was designed, Mr. vArVpipson exclaimed: "How could , evwj a t,l,ll ,R' Possible! 'Everything 'ne is has to be approved by !Ma3'dr d prts?"Bton' ;uu' T au not sec how any Bor'hc money could be used for any pur-oountr pur-oountr other than Hit iinprovemcuts laid ust Jiwithout his knowing nbout it. The ?VJe Konerally express .'oufideuce in akuutyor and it almost looks as if an he htl!?ssl0n ol! f,oar l,iat 11,0 'nonov would do -vii'ilbe properly used were au expres-he expres-he dWH01 liH'k ol confidence in his abil-oyer?.Jp abil-oyer?.Jp do what he sets out to do. I ally T-Jsure that those who advance this did Pjp'fltioii arc trying to throw tho mat- 1 aJt"to politics, where it does not bene be-ne w1;.! |