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Show is it a pi.or? ('ouncilman 1 MiutoKK puts himself on record in a communication to Tun Timks today on the true inwardness of the joint public building scheme. His theory is that delay is part of a deliberate deliber-ate plan on the part of certain speculators specula-tors to disgust the enterprising citizens until they Mihmit to any proposition that the conspirators conspi-rators may spiing, to put the building build-ing on any site they might desire, so long as it shall be put up at nil. This slatimiout is not new nor original with Mr. I'mmtoKK, but it is nevertheless remarkable. Whether true or not the manifest desire of the committees to delay action, to discontinue work ou one side and invite litigation on another, an-other, aud thereforo do nothing on bolh, lends strong suspicion to the assertion. More yet. The ring organ or-gan is ominously silent on the (Ueslion. It has a whole page to the discussion of an irrelevant matter, but not a line to this. It "stands in" with the conspirators who would fool us first with one site and then with another until we accept none other than that they intend we shall have. What do tho people propose to do about it? Are they willing to be driven from pillow to post for the benetit of those whose personal greed is greater than their patriotism? Do they seo in it a plot to cheat them out of a rightful possession? TUB SALVATION AltMV. If there is any practical good to be accomplished by tho Salvation army its field of usefulness must be in tho slums, among the low dives and vicious characters. char-acters. Parading Main street may bo the means of attracting the curious but it is not tho means of converting the fallen and criminal. 'Wo believe in 'the greatest toleration of religious propagandists, propa-gandists, be they even salvation soldiers, sol-diers, but they must have some other more useful object in view than making mak-ing noise. It is said in defence of the army and it needs a great " deal of defence In this country that it carries tho gospel to those who stand in the direst need of it and yet cannot be persuaded to seek it in the ordinary way. Well, that element is not numerous on Main street and it will be best for the shout-ers shout-ers to molest that thoroughfare uo longer. Instead ofi making converts tho Salvation tinny is making a nuisance nui-sance of itself. 'And yet, why should the police single it out for harsh treatment treat-ment whilo other and greater nuisauces escape? |