| Show 1NJUEING THE CITY Councilman JAMES on Tuesday evening remarked that the adoption of the proposition proposi-tion to place the joint building on tho Eighth ward square would leave the council free to sell the city hall corner We have in this significant admission a clue to the real reason that prompts tho removal It is merely to furnish more funds to be squandered by the public enemythe city council Tho council had on hand somo 300000 at tho beginning of the present disastrous administration ad-ministration which had been derived from the sale of the lands on Capitol hill The council has tried to sell Pioneer square is anxious to sell the Warm Springs property prop-erty and now comes the admission that the city nail corner is to ba sold Where is this selling moina to end It cannot go much farther unless the council coun-cil shall undertake to sell the streets or to auction off the fire department buildings Where will the next council get its money from The public property or such part of it as the citizens are unable to wrest from the grasp of tho speculators to whom the present council is so anxious to sell will an have been sold the credit of the city seriously impaired and vast debts on hand Already the present council has gone 600000 beyond the ordinary revenue yielded by lWCI the present high retes of taxation The money from the sale of lands and the money already borrowed amount to more than the total expenses of tho previous year when vast improvements improve-ments wero made involving what was then considered very heavy expense But the present council has gone far beyond even those expenses and with its extra 600000 is still as clamorous for money if it bad not filched a dollar from the earnings of the people New York is constructing air gardens San Francisco is buying playgrounds for the children and in every city on the continent con-tinent the inestimable value of vacant land in the city and under municipal control is recognized Here however the city council coun-cil seems frantic to sell the land owned by the city and is glad to dispose of it for almost al-most any price A few months of Liberal rule has done almost irreparable injury to the credit of prospects of the city Will tho people submit to it |
