East Side Workers Demand a Free Bridge

We people on the east side of the Wishkah have thoroughly discussed the proposition to issue bonds to take up the floating debt of the city and are favorable to the plan on one condition, viz: That before the bonds are issued the city council must buy the Heron street bridge over the Wishkah river and make it a free institution so that we may be relieved of the unjust tax we are compelled to pay for doing our trading on that side of the river. We have been taxed and taxed for fool building of streets, roads and sidewalks on which neither man nor beast sets foot once a week; we have paid our taxes promptly and scarce a red cent of benefit have we got in return. Every other part of the city has had thousands of dollars of the public money spent in it, and hereafter we propose to demand our share of the plunder.