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Show The Sidewalk Question. Tiik Ito'Uiii.iuAN Is iii favor of sidewalk side-walk Improvement now, and since the ball Is started at a good speed, believes be-lieves that any attempt to stop It Is ill-advised. The Honoiablc Mayor's conservative stand in most matteis Is usually woithy of commendation, but his aigument In this matter is certainly cer-tainly fallacious. Will the construction construc-tion of a walk on First West add to the t)U ulcus of those on Center? Most certainly not. Was It wrong for the one-third minority to take ad van t-age t-age of Its lawful rights on Center, and it Is woise for the one-third minority elsowheio to do the samo thing? Suiely not. And pray tell, wherein Is the question of laying walks in one' end of town related to the laying of walks elsewhere? If one-third of the propel ty owners on Center ask for the walks, all the city council has to do is to have the walk put In. The people! on that street pay for It. If the nee-' cssary one-third along another stiectl petition for walks, It's again up to the council to have the walk constiuctcd. ' 'Die responsibility docs not fall on the ' council and most certainly not on the mayor. True, theie Is a little cost of advertising, and the crossings must be i put In by the city, but it can do this when it is tinanclally able to do so. I If the property holdeis along any street desire the walk constiuctcd ic-gardless ic-gardless of the fact that the crossings can not be constructed for some time, j why need the council r mayor feel particularly concerned? I The levying of an assessment may ' be distasteful to the mayor and city , fathers and they may be subjected to annoyances on that account, but if these gentlemen labored under the' impression that public olllce Is a continual con-tinual round of plcasuie, then 'tis1 well their minds are abused of that' idea. They surely undeistand well that their acts either one way or the other will meet hugely with the same, I reception -a stienuous kick fiom the people, and 'tis better to have the kick coming on a move for which pos- l terity, at least, will give them piaise. I It will cost no more this year to coiistiuet walks over the entile en-tile city than it will next year, or the year after and all the time the walks arc being paid for they will be in use. The leason Cacho valley has the pooi- ' est toads in the United States N because be-cause theie has been a disposition to I put off the necessaiy move until "In I ihe fuluie." Theie should be no putting oil such ! unquestioned Impiovement as good ' sidewalks, and most ceitainly Mi. Robinson, In his olllclal capacity as major Is hardly privileged to oiler dls- 'coiiiagement to the Idea, especially on thu plea that the people aie being! ibuidened too heavily. This Is t lie i business of the propertj holdeis along ! any stieet and if one-thiid aie In j f u vot, as thu law piovides, thu majoi . ceitainly can tlnd no Just ground foi , using the trumpet of "the major" to I put a quietus on a movement that Is st i let ly within the law, andonecal-' ciliated to bo of gieatest service to the city. , Thk Rki'uiilican tealics the fact that many of Its leaders will not agree with the Ideas heie expressed and are against the paving. However, we believe that most good things must be forced on the public, and in this Instance, once the walks aic obtained, the public could not, would not do without them and will then thank those who urged the question. ' |