| Show iron the april 10 THE WATER QUESTION wo have with some who favor and with many who the the sale of the city water postern to the corporation which made alie afler to purchase at the last session of the council with scarcely an exception all agree that lie is imperfect and the cupply inadequate thosa who are in favoron selling argue hat objections can thus lie most easily met and that is their principal reison for preferring to sll w ho are opposed to tho belling beaire the improvements as ardently as the ot liera but think alie city can mako alie improvements as well as alio syndicate it the gentlemen with whom we have conversed represent alio ot alio alio question is narrowed down to easy limits it is merely ono of improvement and whether alio municipal corporation or a vale corporation shall make it common sense and the public wol are can give but one answer to such a question any laws which BO restrict a cites po era that it has to transfer to private parties supply of water because it lias no resources with which to maintain and dispense that supply the booner their folly h and alfry aro amended or tepo aled the better neither congress nor the I could hao contemplated eiichi an thero is somo reason to believe eliat tho city lias not been getting tho of water to which it is legally entitled we are aware aliat thia belief ia disputed but it is detill urged with assurance and bhoj of troth even it we arc retting our full quota is no great obb tAcio in he way of acquiring title to more water id valuable but thero is always bamo bomo for sale the gentlemen alio make this proposition to lnig tho entile system promila to make it good and amply and in ten years torn it back to alie city if desired does anybody think we will get it back for nothing end of the ten ears will we not have to pay them all it lias them and a little more for interest will we have so more money and BO many more resources then than we havo they regard alio matter as a cold business proposition they will not fulfill all these promises promie es for love they will expect to make some money out of the investment and somebody will have to pay it mora than this ten years is n long w hile 0 o be in bond ange to a ate corporation for every drop of water wp drick alio members of alie firm were as just as honest and generous as the rods we unreservedly the sale |
