Show THE POLICY OF REWARD THE nature of causes is exhibited by their results this truism will bear an application to an that occurred on february 16 15 to illustrate it is necessary to go some distance behind it during the progress of the recent election campaign our esteemed the herald berald intimated that judge powers chairman of the liberal central committee was laboring for financial rew ardit being understood that he be was to receive a stated sum providing the opposition should gain the election there are a great many besides our who believe that the amount of disinterestedness in the political operations of judge powers could be thrust into a persons son Is eye without drawing water be that as it may he did not wish that view to exist unopposed in the earlier stage of his operations so like a true and honest patriot he denied the soft impeachment over his big own signature he recoiled with horror r at the allegation he was laboring for the good of the cause that had crept into his expansive bosom and nestled snugly by the spot where his heart is supposed to be located his manly breast throbbed with sorrow at the bare intimation that he should for pay recognize the running of B R 0 W special trains to the colorado line to register gangs of workmen that they might come in on free passes and vote for the liberals in the election of a city which many of them had never seen the idea that he would support the fraudulent swelling of cc liberal and the illegal diminution ol 01 of 1 peoples peopled registration for a monetary consideration worked on the pure soul of the intrepid bm iander so he denied it the incident of saturday was connected with a banquet given him by his political bedfellows bed fellows at the walker house one of the features of that mutual admiration circumstance was the presentation to judge powers of a certified check for as a recognition of his services to the liberal party during the late campaign of course recognition means payment except in a Pickwick lan sense just as resignation usually means notice noth to get out in view of his former dental denial of working for money one would naturally have supposed that the recipient would have run ran his long digits through his hair to give it a frowsy drowsy and Indi indignant ghant aspect upon the summit of his intellectual caput and rejected the reward with stale scorn until his manly scruples could be overcome by the pressing demands of admiring friends who would not take no for an answer not much he evidently did not propose to run any risk of such an objection being taken in earnest so far as the report of the proceedings shows to the contrary he simply in a manner that was as heroic as anything he had yet done pocketed the check as his price and why not some of the u un n ders trappers have been rewarded we believe at a great sacrifice to the community but in a different way they have been given positions of power in the municipality it would have been much better if they also had been rewarded in a lump in dollars and cents in place of being inflicted like bolls boils upon the official corpus of the municipal body politic |