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Show THE MUNICIPAL CHANGE. The old is cuit. the net' is in. The prleslrldden gng that has mismanaged misman-aged th city's affairs for the past two years, that has given to the dominating church all li asked and was servile enough to give it more for the askln. Is now powerless for evil; II can wrong the public no more Rut It must be admitted, rciih sorrow, sor-row, shame, and Indignation, Hint permanent per-manent Injury was done bv it to thin city. For fifty yean the public will be oppressed by the robbing fram hisefl granted by the public enemies who have had charge of the publics business busi-ness Wolves have been In charge of the flocks, and the devastation has followed fol-lowed accordingly. A million dollars In cltj bonds ! was votd by the taxpayers of this city to Increase the, public vsater supply, but the money is nearly all gone, and many things which will cost far more than the money which Is left will pay for, which the official address Issued during and which the official address Issued luring the bond campaign declared were indispensable, nre not even touched. It is certain thai the remaining money mon-ey will not pay the coBt of doing the things that are necessary to do. Repeated Re-peated attempts by the gang, individually individ-ually and collectively, to account for the million dollars have been unsuccessfully unsuc-cessfully made. The public does not know, ami could not find out from those who had squandered this monej , w hat they bad done with It. This Inefficient and servile Rang goes out of office With the contempt of every intelligent and honest cltien. It has willingly been under the direction of a law-defying, honor-spurning, lecherous lech-erous priesthood, that used the civil authorities au-thorities as mere puppets, to carry out Its will. Under that vicious and unscrupulous unscru-pulous dominance, the puppets have consorted with vice and crime, and been tolerant of all forms of malefaction. malefac-tion. Under the shadow of this dominating domi-nating and avaricious ecleslaBtlciSm, the gamblers have had full sway to plunder the unwary; the city Is full of robbers, hold-ups, murderers and the law and the sworn officers of the law take no notice, and even if they are awakened by some peculiar atrocity to a semblance of Interest In doing their duty, so Inefficient have they become, that there Is no result. It was bad enough In the old days of ecclesiastical dominance, bin nothing was ever known here before equal to the awful condition in which the hle-rarchlal hle-rarchlal marionettes leave this city. And It is a distinct mark of the deterioration deter-ioration of public morals, of the deadening dead-ening of the public conscience, lo see defenders arise for the officials who In law aie responsible for the conduct of public affairs and under whose sub-COTltrol sub-COTltrol the city Is left In the plight we all see It. The new administration has made a good beginning. It takes things Into its own hands from yesterday onward. It is a difficult position, too, In which it finds llslf. Every act It performs will be eagerly scrutinized. In order to find some flaw or something to snarl at lr will b expected to finish the water plans with insufficient money; it must rescue the city from the grip of the foul priests who have used It for their advantage, and from the c riminal Classes Of which they have been so tol-c tol-c rani , It is a great and heavy task which Hie American administration of eitj affairs af-fairs has before it. But with harmonious, harmon-ious, efllclenl co-operation ail along the line, and with an energetic honest determination de-termination to rescue the city from its unhappy plight und proteci ihe people peo-ple In theil lives, their freedom of use Of th" public streets and utilities, their munlt ipal interests, and lh'-ir pride of cltlsenahlp, success will come, and the city will once mote arise In her beauty and glory It will be a hard pull, and in order to effect the desired results, there must be no hanging back, noth-lnK noth-lnK but the most efficient, harmonious work. The public affairs are already taken strongly In hand, and there can be no relaxing of Ihe benefh lal, sturdy American grip |