City Faces Financial Collapse After Failed 'Boom' Schemes

The action of the council in ordering the city attorney to bring suit for the collection of all delinquent city taxes must meet with the approval of those who have the city’s welfare at heart. For more than a year, such action has been held in abeyance because of the popular cry that enforced collection would be a hardship to many of the citizens, and the matter was allowed to slide along until the city is placed in a deplorable financial condition and heroic measures made necessary to maintain its corporate existence. During the past week, every conceivable plan has been suggested by the wiseacres to get the city out of the pit some of them digged for it by their wild cat street improvement schemes. It is charged, with good reason, too, that many of the people who engineered the building of great wide boulevards through their property are principally the ones who have not paid for their improvements. They will now have an opportunity of defending themselves in court for their liberal squandering of the people’s money.