Show HOW CITIES ARE ROBBED Following the detent defeat of the mea measure re Intended to reduce the price of gas In New York City from I fl to SO 80 cents a afe at fe feet t COI comes the announcement t that the Republican legislators who I encompassed the defeat of the bill are areto areto to be disciplined b by the Black ma lIne fur for their action in the matter The die dis discipline Is to take Ute the form of turning down dOn the legislators in question when they come up for next time The machine Is causing the leaking ont or of a sto story to the effect that the legislators in question ills die obey obeyed Instructions when hen the they killed the bill This eXplanation will 1111 hardly with those tho e who ho have followed the course or of recent legislation in X New NewYork ew York A more explanation Is s that the frightened b by the strong adverse sentiment aroused aroused by bythe bythe the o the bali m is i endea endeavoring to rehabilitate itself by a show f C groat oot And loyalty to t e public interest by sacrificing thee of its creatures who 00 h have ve become oine the uni i ier verJ er 1 condemnation by all d decent ent pee peo people pie The t trick k is a rather rether it one It If men like the venal tore who killed the PJ gas bill were entitled to sympathy any es esthe the they should have it now The They were dmn damned If they and no now they areto be damned because the they did They are no now In Il a tion to at ate 00 how the public has beci situated held d up on the one side by the public utility corporatIons and sold out on the theother other side D by the men elected to guard its Interests aid a certain loser in an any event The encouraging fe feature ture of the situ situation situation is that thet the machine bus been fo forced ced to r I e public sentiment as asa asa a factor in its affairs and to make con to that sentiment What is true of r Xe New York s also true 0 Phila where the he actual physical fear InspIred inspire by the presence of enraged citizens while insufficient to prevent the of the Philadelphia gas se leee is credited with haYing having effected a modification or of the terms of the l leae that would have caused a saving Of r not less than H to Phila Philadelphia had the lease gone through and resulted at atle le length gUI in the withdrawal of the proposition With Ho tion and litigation proved to be failures so far as prot protection tion of the publics rights are recourse to I pUblic sentiment appears to be the only remedy in sight the grafters come to understand that Ule they are being watched And arni will m be held to a strict accounting they will be more careful |