Show IIOAV THE MONEY IS SQUANDERED I would be useless to deny and unjust to attempt it that this year has witnessed the inauguration and in some cases the prosecution of important public improvements improve-ments notably in the extension of water mains and in the laying of sidewalks in this improvements by the way I were not made with the money collected in taxes but from special assessments But it would be useless also to deny that the improvements are not in proportion to the burden Imposed upon the people for them What becomes of all the money levied in extortionate taxation is the question that puzzles many inquiring minds An interesting communication in another part of THE HERALD points out some of the leakages in the expenditure of the peoples cash and many more might be added without with-out exhausting the subject Wo exhaustng subject recommend recom-mend the careful perusal of this communication communi-cation to the public When in one single job the city can waste 3172381 and in another an-other 6714617 it is not amazing that the late surplus in our city treasury of SIWJQOO Ii i Jfih has melted away like hoar frcst in the sun and that to keep up the extravagant administration ad-ministration an assessment must be made not only of the extreme limit of the law but on a valuation which would delight the I real estate agent if it wore corret THET SAY ROUERT LINCOLNS daughter who was married in London last week is strikingly like her grandfather We hope the resemblance is intellectual for OLD ABE wasnt a model for good looks |