Show BONDING THE CITY A taxpayer ana a citizen sends in a protest from afar editor of the EK I 1 promised in my last to give you something on the subject of prohibition but your editorial on the article of senator ingalla in tho forum was enough ao I 1 shall not say much about it my observation however in kanbas where law is enforced compared with that of other states where it is not shows to me that prohibition practically prohibits I 1 did not in kansas in the month I 1 was there either see taste smell or notice in any way the effects of intoxicating liquor the people there however are much behind in politics advertising for office and paying expensive campaign liabilities are common and well understood A man that can nofe pay for an office scarcely thinks of running salaries are much too high besides in some cases office giving money advantages that out of office does not and thus there aie premiums on office but the fellow that gets left is wonderfully at a discount when election is over 1 see that the city council have been discussing the question bonding of the city to build a city hall after seeing the effects of bonding I 1 am very much in earnest when aaa a taxpayer and citizen protest against it there is little distinction between bonding aad bondage I 1 admit the necessity of a city hall but we can yet do without the house and the debt better than we can do with both it seems to me a way down in my memory of the sweet long ago that I 1 heard george A smith and brigham young advocating a principle of this kind that men in office should not be paid very much morn than the same men could make when out of office perhaps a strict application of that anle might enla few yea relay the foundation fo r severa flings that we need and will take money to get we often by contrast and the with that principle lost here has led to memorable lancial difficulties and the difference between rich and poor is being so rapidly widened that I 1 believe a recurrence to acme elementary political principles of the peoples party by this party might be profitable BOOTH METZ marion cawest Co West va septa 89 |