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Show , MAYUli FOId .UNTIL Cotmoilman Parsons Makes a Few Candid Disclosures on Life in tha Exoou-! Exoou-! ' live Obaift ' . t DEMANDS OF THE TAXPAYER. I The Cm That Ate the Hair off the "Eis- j ing Generation" Banquoa of the I Administration. d "The mantlo is a nice thing to wear but no man," remarked C ouncilman Parsons, "can realize the expense, the multitude of annoyances, the constant tax ou a man's forbearance until he has bcuu mayor for a month. If there is a statesman in '.Urn who expects to find a sinecure when ho settles iu the chair a mouth will bring him to a rude awakening." awak-ening." "And Iho annoyances!" "How many columns hare you to lavish on a single item? Why man it would take a day to enumerate them, in the lirst place" there is the visitor who wants assistance no matter whether it is extended in thu shapo of alms and charities or as a 'soft snap' in some department. Ho has been un-ahlu un-ahlu to find employment, hat) been whirled, around in tha cruel cataracts of adversity until lie can show yen every rib iti his body and has a family dependent on him." You can't refuse to tip something that the gaunt wolf may be shaken oil and the column of incidental expenses for which the chief executive alone is responsible, begins to rise. Then thero is the shepardess who is I i working for some benevolent, some I ft philanthropic cause, who has tickets on .'J draught. Sho is content to sell one to 1 1 the civilian, but goes away piqued, al- li most mad if the 'monied power' behind 1 '!'-' . thu miinicitml thrnnx declines to be . bled for less than live. .. Then comes the "coonstitooent" tho gentleman who modestly and reiuet- antly calls your attention to tho tact Q . that you are indebted to him for your election. He has a scheme to promote T.v and nothing but ready cash will pro- ' : mote it. These are samples of tho taxes t that aro imposed on the mantle ,' each day. lioro comes a fellow who ' . wants amnesty for a drunkard who promises to never let it occur again. Behind him in tho tireless troop is a six-fooler with blood in her eye and J fire in her list. Tho neighbor's cow J' lias nibbled tho hair all oil the head of l tiie rising generation and she, wants re- II dress redress or blood. Jl Following iu tho wake of this blood- thirsty ama.on is the applicant for ad- M ! mission to tho hospital. Delias never II worked a day in this fair city, but has II been employed at Hutte where he con- I I traded a cold that culminated in la 4P"4 j grippe. We call' I. afford to become the 1 p hospital for Untie nor can we afford to ! I I " tul11 t'18 unfortunate body away, so tha I I I alternative is to go down into your 1JI pockets. And while I'm speak- J l ;ng of. the.-e immigrants from ft tho 'booming' towns of the I I northwest i want to suggest that if they Vg liroposo to dump their maimed and I helpless into ion they must prepare 1 for reciprocity. A protracted winter V has taxed our own charities and we can't alford to look after foreigners k from liutte, .Seattle and other towns, further than by private sudseriptions VLo help them to. tho next towu on the j(te. Here is a taxpayer who wants Vjeet graded, water mains extend-ijiigh extend-ijiigh it, a special policeman, an Ntower, the alleys cleanod, a ln 'removed, a few choice trees V;in his walk, and the neighbor's moved that boys at midnight . lie doesn't want much for his jf"f "Ifyfre'TTupU'iffi-u ul'ilieres 1 fl'i.l ou tho hands of the A jfeir prlecV0St8 money to fight I' ' '" fiBnt,Ben there is the man Vl jrho fcyf o -. Iplaint to lodge against f anis? 0 nee in ail its multifar- fouSs. aiC'lc' Plli,scs' The tramp tmisanlCOnioke; the dead horse nuisance nuis-ance dm'ies; the slaughter house nuia-lice nuia-lice swill. Oh! 1 1 know every man within the sound ( my voice will agree with mo that a mofit'h in a mayor's chair is the softest snap and easiest job he ever held. It's surrounded with so much ease, so much pleasure and contentment. Why, do you know, a man could give away $100 a mouth and yet not have his attention called to the fact that ho has done his ttuty to unfortunate mankind? That he could abate every nuisotico known to humanity and yet find himself in a sea of complaints? They arc the Banquos of an administration there's no downing down-ing them." j. Is it necessary to ask if Councilman Parsons greeted the return of Mayor Scott with a cordial shake, and that h helped him on with the mantle? I |