Show THE POLICE TROUBLE TR we understand that the decision in the th case ot of the matter of the application for a writ of 0 mandato mandate to compel the board of fire and police commis bronero stoners to reinstate eslinger on the police force 1 Is to lie be appealed from hence a review ot of the decision of 0 judge street by a newspaper newn paper Is not in order but we are free to say that if 1 the law governing the 1 case la Is such that tho the chief tit of police cannot when ahen grossly insulted by a the right to suspend or dismiss such then the tha police force oree in the very nature of things will simply be in a little while a it disorderly mob without any responsible it head ead and without value to the city we reason solely solee from tit the e experience of the world in the handling of 0 men no man would take the place of foreman in a mine it if lie knew in advance that he would have no control over tho the men except such as they might accept through their natural good breeding what sense Is there in calling a man chief of 0 police it if he lias has no authority what man would impose upon the foreman of his works whether they be manufacturing or farming or mining a restriction that regardless of what any man employed or on the place might do or say his acts or his words could not be resented no matter how insolent or menacing they m might ight be it Is not human nature and it Is not what the law intended there Is not any member of the fire and police commission who would accept such a place under such conditions neither NA would judge street neither would any other self respecting man it Is contrary to all rule it Is directly contrary to all common sense because when a man Is rut put in charge of a thing and made responsible for the working of it and still Is 19 shorn of tho the authority to havo have hla his orders obeyed when forced to receive without retaliating tal the insolence of any blackguard who may be employed then the it it Is a clear case that his effectiveness as an officer must bo be entirely neutralized it if the law had intended that then there a should hould have been ono one more provision which would have read son something bething like this whenever any member me of the police force pleases to insult tho the chief it shall bo be the duty of tho the chief to at once take ott ot his coat retire to a back room alth ith tho the offender call in two witnesses and fight it out tho the man that wing shall thereafter bo be chief until some prime other member insults hirn him when tho the operation be whatever the working of the law may be we know the legislature never intended to establish a state of affairs so that the chief of either cither department would be helpless to enforce enforced bis big orders the men who seek places on police forces foreen and in fire departments are not as a rule sunday school teachers the nature of their employment has not a tendency to give them strong religious convictions the tumbling of drunks into jail and the hand to hand contests with holdups hold ups upa and desperadoes has it a tendency to wake up the wild beast more or less leg that Is id latent in every human breast and when such puch men have it decreed by tho the courts that they are responsible directly to no one except a board that meets once in it a week or once in a month and that then they will have their say in a little while they will get lolo into a frame of mind that tho the board itself will have no influence or control over them because of the nature of his work a policeman Hc errian la Js supposed to be armed if the law Is to be construed that there Is no power in the department itself to check quarrelling or to keep back insulting words the next thing we will have ill bo be fights in the police office itself and they will bo be lights fights to the death in the pame way we thai see firemen when they are handling the hoso hose turning the hose upon such members of the organization as they do not like or upon the chief and a hose used that way at a critical time Is more fatal than a pistol because it never misses a pistol int ellit lit the pub llo ito would bo be glad to know just how much a sense of justice Is governing matters and how much spite Is being worked in both the police and fare departments part ments because tho the public to la getting very fired of this everlasting wrangling and this everlasting extra and unnecessary expense |