Show THE BOODLEKS TJNNAJIED The organ of the slums still maintains a cullcn silence as to the dishonest men in the council and fails to say who are the boodlers in that body It confesses that on one occasion it was manly and honest enough to criticise the action of the council coun-cil but by implication declares that it has over since been ashamed of that solitary break in a long record of dishonest journalism journal-ism But neither the councilmen nor the public are interested in the organs apologies apol-ogies for once having done its duty Four of the former have been openly accused of dishonesty and until the four have been named must not each member rest under the suspicion of being one of the quartette We have heard individual members of the council complain and at a certain meeting tho entiry body with a single exception excep-tion voted yea on a resolution requesting that the four untrustworthy untrust-worthy gentlemen be designated that they might be dealt with as the law demands If we admit that the morning organ is for once truthful and that four out of the sixteen six-teen gentlemen comprising the municipal government are really dishonest does it not necessarily follow that in the absence of information as to the four all are liable to be considered as guilty by different members of the community Of course the Tribune knows the four and therefore runs no risk of injuring in its mind the good names of the twelve gentlemen who C are innocent of boodellsm But the public must grope in the dark and owing to lack definite knowledge like that possessed bj the slums sheet is liable to do great injustice in-justice to twelve officials Another circumstance cir-cumstance which tends to befuddle the I tteI people who are trying to pick out the I wrongdoers is the fact that the councilmen council-men have almost invariably acted I as a unit on all measures in I which boodlo was possible If Ir r four had stood out on any proposition iI suggestive of boodle that fact would have been a pointer which might have been followed fol-lowed to the successful discovery of the information sought On the reckless voting vot-ing away of street railway franchises on the extravagant appropriation of moneys on the multiplication of offices on the trebling of the city taxes on the refusal t i listen to the protests of 7S per cent of the property owners against robbery in the name of taxation on the suspension o I work on the public building on account o f the architects politics or because somebod I wanted a different siteon pretty nearly every proposition that has come up where a tho people were to be oppressed or money to be spent the fifteen councilmen han stood as one man thus bamboozling thos who have sought for an indication Ito I-to the boodlers The Tribunes silence may be satisfactory to the organ and to the four dishonest councilmen coun-cilmen but it is anything but satisfactory to the twelve who were unassailed and to l the great public Nor will the sheet beating about the bush and talking abou things which happened ages ago divert attention at-tention from the question at issue or caus anybody to forget that in a momentary I departure from the rule of its lifo the paper asserted in so many words that four members of its party four men that it had helped to elect are dishonest and that in i the Liberal city council there are boodlers |