Show 1 1 1 TO 10 RESCUE REs cirL editor enquirer tiie the editorial criticism in list tuesdays issue of ho 1110 eibl ibitz on arbitrators arciclo on tho the liquor question contafi contains ns some propositions sitione thaties tha tits dmn to rne a should not brov bo a permitted to pass brichall in il I 1 they lio lie at the very root of t the r recent cc ent action of tile th city council upon this ibis nt at resent present all I 1 important question to wr alint it extent is this thia body of officials bound by tile the wishes highl F desires or opinions ol of tho the people of at tl alio community at largo large the position of tile Ex it if I 1 understand it la Is that it is in absolutely bound thereby that ad admitting the tin im practicability nay the impossibility of an enforcement ol of tho the present ardi ordinance n ance 1 tile the city council ia notwithstanding 9 in in duty bound to continue it in force a I 1 py and only because a majority ot of the peo plo file of tin file municipality in a burst of cheap cecii and altogether unreason unreasoning lse ment demand it in other wor words that the ilie only legitimate function of a legislator I 1 of this class elected by the people t to 0 represent thomao to think for them in in that parti particular cula ranch brunch ol of municipal goberm government ile ti to study their best inter eats to use fiig Is god given iven reason to tile tha end ill that a t th tho 0 best laws way may bo be given gien them is ho he to poso like an unreasoning weathercock upon a barn and be blown about abou 1 helplessly by tile alio breeze of 0 every anul popular IT whim that luat chooses to assert it balf 3 I 1 understand stand that lie he is elected to that poRi tion of honor bonor and trust because ins his ability anu and peculiarly lit fit liim him to judge intelligently of tho the wants of liia his constituents and to provide for it klicin I 1 in tile die most beneficial way I 1 understand that lio lie la is neither the muster master nor or the slave elava of tile tho people but the trustee of heir ae I 1 I 1 it policy ii y that in tile the exercise of 0 that C a t trust u t ea ho I 1 i n neither to if fiora nor blindly accept the demands of lna ilia constituents but is at all union times to let act upon liia his own intelligent and di ln passionate judgment it is his dat duty amonn among other things to protect tho the put if necessary necea sary against tiie the result of its own unreasonable demands I 1 believe na As firmly as does the editor ot of the E fit quinca in ht the tha inherent rights lights of major t ties ies that their will bill in all copular popular questions is and of right a should ile be supreme but biben w hen a majority ll 11 by the ex ercito of its ita rightful power at t tuo e polls mollii liaa has imposed a public trust rust upon ft a fellow citizen because lie ho has been deemed beet beat fitted to discharge its ita duties then their power teases ceases to bo be and remains lit at most ad vis 0 sha I 1 I 1 it ft public officer sacrifice his d deh e Z be berate rate and profound conclusions which lie ho realizes to be right arid and propel because tho the ma onty joity of liis file constituents in a frenzy renzy ol of ex exquisite sentimentality demand it Is 11 lie 0 rut but a 0 puppet to be jerked aimlessly hither and thither by the string of popular larwill will yet I 1 think I 1 do the Es no injustice in baying that is its deliberate opinion tile demand ol of the people may be influenced by no sufficient reason based upon no solid foundation ol of facts backed by not so BO inucci uch ns its it a willingness willing neBs to attest its finin verity r ity by ilia file expenditure ol of a single aingie cei cent it but tho the position ol of the 1 Is s that all tins this is immaterial the duty of the 10 C council unell follows the simple demand its is the idiotic contortions of the tha puppet ollow follows a the tha pull of 0 the string no matter low or unwise it maybe may be i 0 with equal consistency we shall mil next hear it seriously contended that lat the justice ol of the peace behall CPA B true the law as the tha great majority of ilia electors clec tora demand it that the city marshal shill shall arrest or not arrett arrest par nicular supposed offenders as this sovereign art ign 21 majority in JO arty I 1 shall dictate I 1 that the tax ax assessor shall make a standard of property valuations in obedience to this thin same amo autocratic anto cratic will and that ever every unction function of municipal government all shall ibi be 0 exercised in accordance with t the it a opinions and demands of this sumo same irresponsible po pon risible sible public irrespective of tile tha judg me nent nt of the offices or officers whose pro vince ance it is to judge and upon choso whoso hoso the responsibility ft of it rests 11 11 I 1 have not the opinion of the editor of this thi journal to that conclusion cl logically and irresistibly bibly tends but ut buell is not anil ani should not bo be the rule of fiction action in any of tile tha departments of municipal government the city council tic no moro more than the others IY when ben c our air city lathers fathers have hava satisfied their own consciences and their awn reason of the rightfulness policy justice consistency and legality of any contemplated le legislation I 1 tile tho responsibility of it resting g U upon 1 1 1 1 thein and not upon tho the people at al 1 larob 1 11 1 they can invoke sir Vander bilts somewhat profane find and summary disposition of 0 a and unappreciative public with a good deal of propriety so much upon that anat question the last issue of the contains bains further criticism of arbitrators article which to my mind is is altogether unwarranted arld and unjust it occurs to in me that while a fair friendly j u 1 and ani honest cr criticism to the end that aba the 1 I public might be enlightened upon tile bit situation U of affairs would not bo be out ol of place a e 0 1 u aeration pe ration crimination and nd m misconstruction 1 c n t c i i on the editorial in question indulges in cornea comes with mith exceedingly bad uri grace e if arbitrator impugn impugned ned the motives or directly 0 or r indirectly char charged g ed tile petitioners petition onera ers with the tha most p perfidious er it hypocrisy po erlay lie he la is most unhappy unhappy in ilia his choice choice of terms those of t alie I 1 a who have bald anything about the matter at all have no such idea but eliut on oil the contrary I 1 am reliably informed fully endorse arbitrators senti merits you say the authorities of the city have hava ample authority to raise raise the taxes to tile tha lull extent of the charter without troubling the people at all in the nutter matter that is ia exactly tho the position I 1 am at present coid contending ending for ho go they ilac slid and they have also tile the authority to license litho lithe cense tho the sale of liquor ii tion doubling bling tile the poo people le but when they begin to ex arcise ercito weir their authority lit in that direction tile calls calla a halt and characterizes their attempt as being in in every sense an usurpation your attacks of hot and cold are dangerously close mr editor and we shall have bane you down with till it A spell of the tha shakers alers th if we denra are not very ery careful after a subtle argument 1 which I reduces reduce the council ti 0 the andl undignified condition ot of an automaton is ia it not a little inconsistent for you to 01 sume that it hu hia any power to art act lit at all I 1 when opposition from the public may reasonably bo be expected as it certainly may a on 11 the proposition of increased taxation at ian you arbitrators 1 ann on the tha prohibition question on I 1 be theory 1124 the council are baund to act in accordance alth the tha demand of till people and then with great propriety assail his position on tile the question of increased taxation on the theory that tile the council may act vi without call citow ul tile the will of tile the people at nl all ja in 0 one ie breath you deprive that body of all volition arnd in the next you clothe it with tile toga ol of absolute power what r cra re our i ity fathers avilo w lio A courso turn to your jurnal j arnal lor for guiding light as ag the sun eun flower to the sun going to do you ctet them upon the theli horris orna of it ailin dilim me ina you have turned then them IWI hail lessly eHly a adrift r upon an unknown pra flos bahout w eliout dar rudder ug or compass tu to he be dashed 1 upon rocky scylla or engulfed in whirling the editorial in in question makes tile the assertion that tho the kt rained financial condition of the city is not mainly duo due to the tha effort to enforce ilia thi prohibitory ordinance di nance and characterizes arbitrators assertion to the contrary ug as a m mt it therefore becomes bei omea in a measure raea sore a question of 0 veracity between t yourself 0 self and arbitrator now NOH then I 1 venture ture to state that an examination a of 0 the records of tills city i ity still ill disclose disa this thin state of fails facts that during tho the past a s t three years eara tile burn bum of at atheist least hundred linn ired dollars tins lins been e c by tile the city in tho the attempted f 0 ewt of that ordinance an and 1 that only about five hundred dollars ling has ever eer been bean returned lit in tho ilia shape of fines binl all penalties allowing it clear cli ir and hopeless benalt Ieso act lowing loss ill t it twenty four fl hundred undred D collars u a r F for 0 r yn artery ery other oilier species of ox c pend 1 e n iture 1 jure alio t 1 lo 10 city liaa has something to to B show I 1 ow lit in the hie shape of improve lini me ill or money la Is it riot not tie clear ir that it if this had not bun been ex d in the molley ellort to enforce eil il it would now bo be in tile tho ty treasury casary and that if il it were in n tho the treasury tile alio nty city would not lia be financially embarrassed embarras ed anil and if abose tt ose two statements be true is not statement that tho dobli eions ti ons now retting resting upon tile nty city lire are mainly due to the ellort ell ort to enforce tile the prohibitory ordinance tile absolute t ruth and your own an error lit jn other worda wo ads I 1 say bay that if it had nut bien been for or this unavailing a effort to enforce prohibition the 0 obligations tile city is now resting under alder koukl won I 1 1 not have existed because tile the money that would have been in the trea would luie have obviated olivia ted the necessity of 0 their it may bo be true that tile clause relating to increased taxation in the petition ll 11 signed by tile was waa stricken out by 11 ft ho formulated the petition it was maa certainly a physical impossibility tor for each of tile tha signers to strike it out I 1 0 or r himself be that as it may an increase of 0 taxation if i the ilia present ordino race ft was as I 1 to be continued in in effect and its enforcement attempted was wai a necessary contingent and a question wh which tell should have been submitted to the people together witti with the main question jn its ita face it therefore affords tho the deduction whether true or false that the originators ot of the petition were lug ng t to are rely upon the generosity of those who gvozd would be re requested sled to sign and it may be ba regard re carded tie a M still an open ques tion lon whether those are willing to have increased taxation fixation or not there tire arg other matters that I 1 should like to refer tu to but I 1 have already occupied aed too much time and space but I 1 wasll ilski to ask the people of this municipality earnestly and seriously what it Is a they cantlay want Lay aside forthe foi the moment tile purely seiti sentimental mental and theoretical part piert ot of the question and answer as an practical men upon the facts as they ex it V what hat will bring about the best practical aca I 1 results the 1 I ha betie benefits fits of a law do not consist in the mere enactment but in in ilia enforcement of 0 it one city council oi of an idealistic turn of mind can davff nor more lw lawa having in inherent berent be bene flegal qualities to mankind in general than tho the combined executive power of a hundred cities could execute the people le must certa certainly aly realize this in in their effort to prolong the ibe dying struggles of tills po policy ic of prohibition roh have we not had a enouf enough of 0 the practical martical effects of tills tah modern D era utopian ian legislation to cono v effice alie to most ant bitter itter opponent of license of its utter wo li in ane namo name of bf common let us have an end of this thia reaching out alter after the ideal and the impracticable lotus lot us no longer ignore the actual and tle the real we have mas quera ded in the garbot temperance long enough tho the poor cloak ot of serves bervia no longer to conceal tho the true state of our body politic the stranger within our gates gatea can see beneath its hollow and pitiful pre predence pretence tence tho the many festering es stab B gangrened with a of acted falsehood have vi 6 not permitted long enough tile the drug store monopoly to grow fat and loathsome in the dat dai dankness kness of its hypocritical folds foldan its title Is ia a palpable he lie it is not an ordinance c to prevent tile tho sale bale of intoxicating laiq liquor bor but an act to permit the drug store proprietors prie Irie tors to t dispense liquors without expense to themselves or profit to the city ais A much liquor is ia sold in the tha city of arrovo today to day as though we had ill tha 0 most liberal system in the tha world for 1 or eight long there has bas been i a single prosecution tor for a elation of the ordinance yet it is violated A hundred times every day tills thia is ia a 6 matter that thai must be within the tha Inow knowledge ledge of almost every citizen yet we cling to our system ol 01 fals pretences pretenses with a grip which for tenacity is only equalled equal led by its entire lack oi of practical reason does the ordinance reduce the quantity of liquor sold cold is is the vital question tion if it does not then as aa a law it is worthless no matter what may maybe ba th ilia moral or theor worth odthe oj toe principle involved and I 1 assert with a firm conviction of tho the truth of the proposition that under a license system 1 l eu there here I 1 would bo be no more liau liquor r sold 1 the rh city by licensing w would gain a rei anie of 2000 or annually it n it u ally any an person injured by the business would woul 1 I be furnished a remedy for his bid injury then would bo be a distinction made between selling belling to ordinal ordinary persona per sorts and to hill habitual drunkards and at minors tho ilia sale lalo at places not duly li tensed fl would be prevented by the saloon too keepers themuel I 1 ves as and the cost of boic police Burvil rvilla lance nce confined to those alaci 1 actually ct bally licensed and finally we ne should about do away with the system of pro t ni n d i fid h 1 bieh has come coina to be ba A stain and a reproach upon the lair fair name of out oui city thanking you for your kind indulgence I 1 subscribe myself of tho the 40 |