Show VOLUNTEERS WANTED I Kansas City has been boomed forman for-man years Tho city has overplayed itsolf to draw capital and enterprise there and the present Mayorelect llnds that the ordinary expenses oC the administration are In excess of the citys revenue The Kansas City Star says that under those conditions Mr I I J L Woods Merrill a publicspirited citizen offers to assume the management manage-ment of the slreetcleanlns department I I of the city free of charge llepcdgos 1 I j himself to as faithful performance of 1 the task as though he were on the I payroll The Star calls on other business busi-ness men with time to sacrifice assume as-sume the work of the city free of cost I for the benefit of their fellowcitizens f I would be a good idea here We suggest that Mr 11 Jones be given I I I charge of the citys waterworks without II l with-out salary provided he will give a j m bond for the faithful performance of hie duty The Street department might be given t Mr W S McCornlck and Inasmuch ns the smelter trust has relieved re-lieved Mr A Hanauer from active work h might take charge of the Board of Public Works Mr J K 1 Dooly might be given charge of the Health department for he understands sanitary science and moreover is a gentleman who when he assumes a responsibility is bound as a rule to have his own way In the canvine out of his plans There are plenty of good men for the other departments and if they could bo HUed with gentlemen who would be working only for love i there would be more money with which to pay laborers And these gentlemen should not shrink from these responsibilities responsi-bilities when they know that plenty of our young men go old oiTer their lives even to the country for 313 a month j with only such glory as can ho obtained I ob-tained through the generous newspapers newspa-pers which slate that they are simply engaged in a war of conquest trying to force a government upon a people without the consent of the governed There is too much money being paid out for liigh l officers There If another I advantage too which would result from this If It were once stablhJh las l-as a rule there would not be so many I gentlemen anxious to serve their country 1 i coun-try as now turn up nt every election Jf it could bl pursued for five or slx years It would be kd to the causing of certain cer-tain gentlemen to decide that hereafter hereaf-ter J might be well to try a little honest I hon-est work for u living The system surely sure-ly has its advantages and it will be noted that the gentlemen we have I named above to fill the offices ale all gentlemen of leisure and engaged In a business which like running a newspaper news-paper or superiutending1 a mine any man could see to I |