Show TOAD HEW YORK TOBX hore here Is an item which m Is going the rounds in one lorm form or another anol hor of the antl anti press of 0 now york city the expenditures tor for pensions for tho the year ending june stith sa HS nov no ome officially lally 5 stated abed amounted to lit in the rio previous year wo we paid 11 while 1 in the he year before that wo bald aid the cost 0 of tile german army it may be interesting to noto note Is for this year realities opera ow pon lons ions our army costs ahers tho newspapers put out such items as that they ought to eXIA explain abat hilt tho pay 0 german soldiers Is what their clothing costs and what m hat their food Is such an item would celinie the com comparison parlon ot of all there Is in it that Is odious it might explain too why villy or germans forsake tho the fatherland and try and find a homo home in this tax ridden country annually and why after living hero here five years there Is not power enough on earth to force them back to that blessed fatherland where evereth ang Is so much better conducted than I 1 it Is on this sido side of tho the sea it is a lasting pity that the men who ho lit in this country insist that our people aro are so much oppressed that thal it if we would bo be happy wo we must adopt english and german ways cannot he be induced to go to those countries and link their fortunes with the ilia people who live under such blessed governments tile tho troth trilb Is tho the whole tone of public sentiment in new york emanates from the eng english lish find and gorman german banking lions houses a situated in that city and it Is cu enough it being the great commercial capital of our country to spread its taint to this the chiv confines of our republic in the 1 vi or ar times tile tho mayor of ow york representing the sentiment of that city wanted to lo make it a free city cily that it might bo be neutral between the iho north a and it south that lit in elicit effect that newyork kew york city was not interested litany in any patri patriotic or high minded purposes that its only business was trado trade and lio v N anted allied to take away every restriction to that trade it Is a pity ho he could not have succeeded it Is a pity that ho he could not hat baay e in made ado now kew york not only a a free city but that ito ho could not also hlo hao released it from its moorings on manhattan island and moed ilia cli city y and the island itself out luto into tile lie atlantic an a e fall and al baile made it a suburb of london or we vo havo have strong hopes that by and by tile the american people will emancipate themselves aud and get over tit the c disgusting disposition to toady to the old world when they do we shall get along Is well ell ollough enough until they do 0 o shall bo be reminded every morning how bow much butter better they do things across tile the water thin than they possibly can on tills this side sida |