Show 1 A STATEMENT of the financial condition of the city is to be prepared and shown to capitalists in tho nope that it will induce them to pay more for the municipal bonds which the corporation finds it necessary to sell in order to raise money to pay the current expenses of the government The official who gets out the statement should be careful not to mention two things one being the percentage of the city revenue which goes to pay the salaries of the municipal officials and the other the amount of money which the council has voted away since last February If these two items should become public it is feared that capitalists would not be eager to buy city bonds |