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Show I vertising, of course I do not object 1 to that part of it; but it is a fact tb it the water works will not ben-'eiit ben-'eiit the hardware dealer one cent ! more than it will the grocer, or the 1 dry goods dealer. It is a fact that I the "kickers' themselves must 1 know that the City Council has al-j al-j ready placed the order for all the j ! pipe and there was no middle man j in the matter, but the pipe was ! bought at a very low price, direct from the manufacturers. Then again; if the water works are a go, the work of putting in the main pipe, and afterwards the system in the houses, must be done by plumbers, plumb-ers, a business entirely separate from the hardware trade, and not one hardware firm out oi'ahuudred ever bundles plumbers' goods. We do not understand the plumbers' trade and have no intention of either learning the trade or handling hand-ling the goods." Ukpoiitkr: ''Did you ever handle pipe when people were driving wells for water and gas?" Snow: "No; we never sold a foot of pipe." PtKi-oiiTKit: "You do not think that the putting in of the water works would greatly benefit your firm then ?" Snow: "No, not any more than it would benefit any other firm. Of course, the expending of several thousand dollars among the laboring labor-ing men would liven up things and benefit all alike. I am informed that some of the "boys" who would naturally be employed on the works are ignorantly opposing them, hut. as a matter of course, those very people would receive the most benefit." "You may tell the numerous readers of Tin-: BiiGiJCR, that most of these agitators are irresponsible people who pay but little of the taxes, and, I am sorry to say, less of their own debts. Let me see," and here Mr. Snow turned over the leaves of the Hardware ledger, "nearly all of these principal kickers are indebted to us, and the accounts arc all long past due. Fine fellows these, to be talking about other people and trying to make each other believe through falsehood, by appealing to their prejudices, pre-judices, that the Mayor and City Council, whose lives are above reproach, re-proach, are boodle ra and trying to work a scheme for their own benefit. bene-fit. But no doubt they consider that they are the people and that wisdom will die with them." DOWHEDACAIN. Matianer Snow of the Hardware Demolishes Demol-ishes Anotlirr False Plank. Having heard that there had b-en some talk among the "kickers'" against the water work-;, to the elfeel thai ihe putting in of the sy-lcm would result in gr. at benefit to our hardware merchant-", a Br.u.ri; reporter called upon A. IL Snow. Manager of t he 1 1 aril ware, and asked him, a- a member of the large-d linn in Ihe eil v. w bat he hail lo say about (he n port. Mr. Snow aid: "V.-s.l have heard thai some of the "kicker-:" have been giving lis considerable free advertising and, as you are aware, Iain a believer in extensive ad- |