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Show - THE IHINKSt Hill Al'ION. If the siicc-si of the liberal party means the iiiereasin; of the value of real estate to two dollars that is now only worth one, w e would like some learned member of that party to tell tiie reasons whv property began to decline hero iuimudiatdy affir tho last municipal munici-pal election. That it di 1 so decline is hduu'.ted by every well 1 jsted real estate es-tate man doing business iu this city. Tho reason of it was that people had had their tenses filled with the music of brass bands for weeks; every night there was a torchlight procession; thousand of prophets aud curbstone brokers along the streets were telling of tho wonderful thiugs to hi accomplished here within a few months. Kvery street was to be paved, hundreds of thotiflands of dollars were to bo ex , leaded ou the improvement of tno public parks; one customer would be told that gambling and houses of prostitution were to be thrown wide open; another that they would be closed up altogether, ho it was possible to uit every tdiado of opinion. People went wild, prices advanced ad-vanced 10 per cent while you were turning a corner. Ko ono asked how much a piece of property would produce, pro-duce, but how much he could dispose dis-pose of it to the next man for. l'.ut after tho ballots had been counted count-ed and tlis strains of the musio were stilled; after the light of the torcheshad gone out, the people began to reason that they hud been blinded by the red glare of their own enthusiasm and that it was time for them to lighten their purse strings aud retrench. It was a good thing that the boom stopped where it did; we don't mean that it wat a financial bles-ing to those who were caught with property for which they had paid ficticious; but we believe it was tho best thing for the ultimate prosperity of the city. We are going ahead row on legitimate lines. |