San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 15, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1896 Page: 3 of 8
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Written for the Light by an Occasional
Contributor.]
There is a lot of fun in store for
the citizens of San Antonio. The
initial performance will begin
when the sewers are completed and
the Waterworks company declines
to furnish free water to flush the
sewers and closets.
As it is destined that San An-
tonio is to have a republican mayor
for some years to come by reason
of the preponderance of republican
votes in the city what’s the mat-
ter with Col. Wm. Hoefling? He is
honest he is capable and he fills
the constitutional requirements
which is more than can be said for
many aspirants both republican
and democratic.
The democracy of Bexar should
select a chairman for their county
executive committee whose sports-
man’s proclivities will not tempt
him to seize a gun and fly to the
mountains of Montana every time
he sees a flock of geese—or there is
an intimation that the scattered
fragments of the party are to be
called together.
The municipal tax rate of San
Antonio is rapidly reaching the
line of ruin and bankruptcy. It
has long since passed the true dan-
ger line for when municipal tax
rates pass a limit of $1.50 on the
$lOO of property at a fair valuation
it is time to put on the brakes;
there is danger ahead. At the pres-
ent pace at which our administra-
tions are plunging along the tax
rate for 1897 will not be less than
$3 on the sloo—not a pleasing pic-
ture to present to homeseekers and
intending investors. There must
be a retrenchment in our present
extravagance or a revolt upon the
part of the taxpayers is inevitable.
It is to be hoped that the shoe
factory enterprise has not been
stricken with a congestive chill a
disease so fatal to many San Anto-
nio undertakings in embryo. A
banquet where cold shoulder serves
as the piece de resistance as well as
the entree course never fails to
leave a chilly sensation in the sys-
tem and a barren taste to the pal-
ate.
Why don’t the city attorney the
assistant city attorney the “back
tax collector” or some of the nu-
merous clerks stenographers and
assistants feeding at the public
crib make an effort to force the
wealthy tax delinquent to pay up
instead of concentrating their com-
bined efforts on the smaller fry.
There are half a dozen taxpayers
on the list whose aggregate indebt-
edness to the city amounts to
about $40000; yet as far as heard
from neither the city attorney and
his able corps of assistants nor the
“back tax collector” have ever col-
lected a dime of it or been made an
effort to do so as far as is known.
But the small fry in several in-
stances have been snared and bull-
dozed by threats of suits at law
into paying their dues. This is an
outrage—in morals as well as in
law.
» * *
A properly organized political
syndicate in Bexar county should
be able to command an unlimited
slush fund in the coming campaign
from outside sources. We have
the talent to form the syndicate if
individuals can only agree upon
terms as to satisfactory distribu-
tion.
♦ « *
It is the “galled jade” who
always winces and finds relief in
bombastic boasts and silly vituper-
ation.
The public should tender a
formal vote of thanks to the Alamo
Natinal bank for its unprecedented
liberality and unselfish generosity
in voluntarily permitting a suffi-
ciency of the city’s revenues to be
applied to the payment of one of
the four or five months’ salaries of
the city’s employes. The unsel-
fishness of the act will be the bet-
ter appreciated when it is under-
stood that the bank at one time
held a doubtful claim against the
city for $50000 all of which has
been liquidated but $5000. The
bank meanwhile however has had
and now has on deposit some $150-
000 of the city’s sewer fund upon
which it does not pay the city a
penny’s interest.
The sewer contractors display an
unwonted modesty and diffidence
in presenting their claim against
the city for alleged damages to the
amount of $BOOO or $lOOOO. Most
probably they will withhold it un-
til after they are awarded the con-
tract to build the outlet. The pub-
lic can draw their own conclusions.
A modern minister in Chicago
has adopted the circus method of
advertising and in lieu of a simple
announcement in the daily papers
plasters the vacant walls and bill-
boards with flaming colored posters
and highly wrought lithographs to
attract audiences. Mention is sim-
ply made of the fact for the benefit
of Parson Craig. It is a pointer
which he is free to accept and for
which no charge is made.
The question of whether the peo-
ple or the street car company of
Mr. W. H. Weiss own the public
thoroughfares of San Antonio is
still a mooted question. But as
Mr. Weiss has possession which is
regarded as “nine points in law”
it is doubtless a matter of indiffer-
ence to his lordship whether the
question is settled or not in the
dim henceforth.
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Very few people are clamoring
for a “reform” ticket. The term
has become a reproach in this
community and no man will
ever be again deceived by it.
What is desired what is demand-
ed is a clear impersonal cam-
paign on strictly party lines—and
the lines cannot be too rigidly
drawn. There is a widespread ex-
pression in favor of honest politics
in future if such a desideratum
can be evolved from the labyrinth
of Bexar rings.
* *
In the event the democracy of
this district should rape Hon. Per-
ry J. Lewis with the congressional
nomination could Hon. A. W.
Houston be relied on to play
Damon to Mr. Lewis’s Pythias? It
would be a graceful return upon
Mr. Houston’s part of a similar
but unsuccessful sacrifice per-
formed for him by Mr. Lewis in
’94.
* *
The people are awaiting with
not a little interest the final shap-
ing up of the different political
combinations. Will the Big Chiefs
bury the hatchet or will they di-
vide and lead contending factions?
Perhaps when the matter is defin-
itely determined the people—the
real citizens —may decide to take a
hand in which event the result
could be easily foreshadowed. “Vox
populi vox dei.”
A determined effort is being
made in Bexar county to trans-
plant and perpetuate one of
Britain’s most obnoxious claims —
“once a citizen always a citizen.”
The only difference is that it is
“once an officeholder forever after-
ward an office holder.”
When the merchants business
men and citizens of San Antonio
who do not rely on politics and
public office as a means of livll-
hood arouse themselves and take
a personal interest in public affairs
they can look for better govern-
ment more substantial improve-
ment and lower tax rates.
Houston has organized a Good
Government club. San Antonio’s
once boasted such an organization
but the membership appears to
have dwindled to a trio represent-
ing the president secretary and
legal adviser. The services of the
treasurer were dispensed with
early in theengagement.
Will some one please explain
what the people are receiving in re-
turn for the $2OO paid Mr. Brand
monthly for performing the alleged
duties of “back tax collector ?” He
has drawn in all some $5000 from
the treasury of the city. Has he
been the means either directly or
indirectly of ever turning a dollar
into the treasury ? If so the fact
should be made public without
delay.
The “faithful” of the great un-
terrifled and unwashed of San An-
tonio are without an organ or ex-
ponent in this city through which
to draw their mental papulum.But
they can console themselves with
the reflection that the Light is
here to give them the news when
it is fresh and crisp. Vide Judge
George Clark’s interview published
in the Sunday’s Light and re-
published in the Express on the
following day.
Dallas has applied the pruning
knife in her municipal affairs and
the result is that by reductions In
the police and fire departments
the abolishment of several sine-
cures and decrease of salaries of
officials from mayor down to sani-
tary inspectors a saving of $lOOOO
a year has been effected. If San
Antonio . But why sigh after
the inevitable?
The Midwinter fair is a splendid
nucleus from which could be made
to spring a successful autumn fair
and exposition. The success of the
former will warrant and insure
the success of the latter.
The early approach of the coming
campaign is presaged by the ru-
mors on every hand of the birth of
innumerable new journalistic ven-
tures. These hermapathroditic
microbe are the bane of legitimate
journalism and spring up like fun-
gus upon the eve of every campaign.
They are the buzzards of the guild
who begin with the motto “Tote
Fair” and wind up a brief and dis-
reputable career with the cry of
“Get Away With All You Can.”
They should be tabooed by every
reputable candidate and ignored by
every respectable and responsible
business man.
The question is not infrequently
asked will Mr. J. B. Hlndry be
recognized by the mayor and coun-
cil as a responsible bidder for the
contract to build the sewer outlet?
He is a very liberal contributor to
a campaign fund—in promises—as
his honor and several aldermen
and ex-aldermen can doubtless at-
test.
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troubled with Jaundice Sick Head-
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Back and between the Shoulders
Chills and Fever etc ? It you have
any of these symptoms your Liver
is out of order and your blood is
slowly being poisoned because
your Liver does not act properly.
Herbine will cure any disorder of
the Liver Stomach or Bowels. It
has no equal as a Liver Medicine.
Price 75 cents.
A Tidal Wheel-
The amount of power in the
forces of nature which daily goes
to waste is incalculable. The
utilization of the dynamic force
of the tides is a subject which has
engaged the minds of men for
centuries with little or no practi-
cal result. Another attempt has
been made in this direction on the
Rhode Island coast. A dam has
been built across the mouth of a
narrow bay in which the tidal
rise and fall is considerable. By
means of a second dam the bay
is divided into two great reser-
voirs. The water stored In these
is mad) to turn a wheel which it
is proposed to connect by suitable
gearing to a dynamo for the gen-
eration of electricity. The belief
is held in the best enginenring
circles that the problem of the
commercial utilization of tidal
energy is rapidly approaching
solution and there are indications
that within the next two years a
gigantic and carefully worked out
scheme of this nature will be made
public. Should such an enterprise
prove successful some sweeping
developments in the supply of
light and power to coastwise
cities and the transmission of the
of the same to towns and villages
in the neighboring country may be
looked for.
—The exposure to all sorts and
conditions of weather that a lum-
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the camps often produces severe
colds which if not promptly
checked result in congestion or
pneumonia. Mr. J. O. Davenport
ex-manager of the Fort Bragg Red-
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