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tonio, and with labor enough to carry out the work, LA REDO CAN BE PAVED CHEAPER THAN lt;J5% of the cities now paving. A year ago the Water Work:- pleaded for time on account of the high coat of materials, but they are glad that they don't have to NOW go into the market to buy the materials they used then. Ask any suostantial contractor or merchant what he thinks of making deliveries of contracts six months from now. They will all tell you that they can't huy materials for such deliveries made so far ahead, because materials are expected to go up in prices. If Laredo could have sold its hondB and installed its sewerage system some six months ago, the city would have saved $100,000.00 cash money. if we don’t make arrangements NOW to improve, we also lose the opportunity of getting our part of the general prosperity and progress being made up and down the Rio Grande Valley. We may call ourselves the “Gateway City,” hut who will come through the gate to the “Back Yard of Prosperity.”THE LAREDO CLUB adopted a platform for Improvements.THE INDEPENDENT CLUB has controlled politics so long without a platform that they didn’t think they needed one. They have been doing this for twenty-five years, and tried it out just one time too often. Of course some of the candidates of the party published a platform, to supply th.Qirouo. 11 pounce are uu. powerim iu the detriment of both your freedom to vote your business and our town, ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE ANOTHER PROMISE FROM THE POLI TIC’AL BOSSES?wu jt it n tip jc. vv auuiug tuiPLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE LAREDO CLUB APPEALS TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND NOT YOUR PREJUDICES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LAREDO ON THE FOLLOWING PLATFORM:IFirst.CUT THE TAX RATE and raise the assessment to get money to improve.EQUALIZE THE CUT RATE AS WELL AS TI E RAISED ASSESSMENT, so every citizen pays his pari in accord to his holdings.(Did you notice that the candidates ot the Independent Club made a very flossy statement about “Progress,” but failed to mention anything about taxes? Maybe they thought it bad politics to mention this; and it may be that the political bosses thought it best not to mention it? Unless the “Leopard can change its spots,” this failure to mention anything which might scare the tax payers and voters was cute politics.)Second.INSTALL A SEWERAGE SYSTEM, adequate to serve the town for forty years from now. INSTALL IT INTHREE UNITS. LET'SING OVER A NEST OFSTOP LIV-CESSP1TS,ponds, lakes and hog holes to get to our business centers should keep before you that it iias been a mistake to intrust further IMPROVEMENTS to a bunch who have been weighed and found wanting. Every “lip-toe through the slush on our streets in! the business center should remind our merchants that “IMPROVEMENTS , BY CONVERSATION don’t mean progressive business. EVERY SCREW put on you to keep you in line should remind you that you are living in a' free country. Every poll tax bought should he an insult to your nationality, j; and convince you that the political!, slush fund is only raised and used he- | j cause the political wire puller con-;-riders you and your kind as a HERD , WHICH CAN BE BOUGHT AT A! j VERY CHEAP PRICE.STUDY CAREFULLY BOTH THE LAREDO CLUB PLATFORM AND THE CITIZENS THEY HAVE BOTH j NOMINATED AND ENDORSED. , YOU WILL SEE THAT THE LAREDO CLUB IS NOT PLAYING FOR POLITICAL POWER, BUT TO GET LAREDO OUT FROM UNDER THE ABSOLUTE POWER OF POLITICS, IN ORDER TO INSURE IMPROVEMENTS ON A BASIS OF EQUALIZA- j PAY FOR IMPROVE-! „TJON.M ENTS THEM.A LL ASWELL AS ENJOY iH, C. HALL, The Laredo Club’s Candidate for Mayor.(Political Advertisement.)
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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 29, 1920
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