| Show THE COMMON CAUSE THE HERALD admits that it is deeply wounded though not inconsolable thrcrgh not receiving an invitation to attend the meeting of citizens to protest against the tacit encouragement of vice rowdyism and crime in this city The stern rebuke that was administered to tho city government for at least bantering banter-ing the commission of crime in this city if not aiding and abetting it is nevertheless pleasing for us to contemplate We are not of thoso who dislike to see a good think done unless they have a hand in it The evident sincerity or those who took part in the proceedings notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the painful effort of some to make it appear that none but Liberals had any cause for participation in the meeting is extremely gratifying It shows that on questions relating to public decency and morality many men are able to rise above party ties and vyorkIor the general good with any others tbatWill cooperate with them for that purp se We crinot see why any ono should insist that only Liberals should engage in the present war against vice and crime in this city True as one speaker observed it was never before necessary to hold such a meeting which occurs for the first time after less than a year of Liberal rule and it might therefore appear that it is the business of that party especially to right itself in publio estimation by rebuking and warning the men it placed in office now guilty of sad malfeasance and mis tt feasance But we take this to be a narrow nar-row view All citizens are interested in the morality of the city and the respectability of the streets and places of amusement Any attempt at-tempt to limit the correction of existing evils to the political party chiefly responsible responsi-ble for them would weaken the cause of the reform movement and perhaps render it powerless And it is not less the right than the duty of all citizens to further the cause of any reform the necessity for which is universally conceded though the responsibility for the evil may rest chiefly upon a certain set of officials |
