Show ON E atie 40 1 in ia glancing over a paper which assumes to discuss the relation ofaf of officials to their constituencies who when 0 one coo finds tho the nations of the latter alluded to in such expressions as unreasonable demands cheap and un reasoning sentiment frenzy of exquisite sentimentality etc etc ive w confess combess there thera is a strong temptation crises arises to forbear fill all comments cocoi uenta and permit the fabrication to fall topi to pieces ec es of its own obvious weakness phrases abras ea of this sort may bo be no doubt applied with propriety to the barbarian followers of antony and junius bantus balsome twenty centuries has claps eile inca th enand popular judgement jud gement has baa presumably advanced ia a the course of 0 those years men ol of this thia country and generation after having been their own masters in poll blics tics and religion for lot lo these ma many 13 y years will not readily believe them selves so BO thoroughly incompetent wo speak of course of the average civilian by no means denying the existence 0 of f hordes of voters who are ignorant anil and vicious aa 83 undomesticated 1113 dOMS s timatea ani nials when a person institutions is ia granted the rights and amenities of a full fall fledged edged ft citizen it is a reason able presumption that he is ia a ration al t being capac ci pacita its ted to ld reason upon and provide for his personal wants and therefore to comprehend to a practical 0 wants ot of hill hia follow fellow beings ilia his go gov V eminent is theoretically and practically by and for himself and is as 03 literally a part of ibis lis posses posse 8 eions as are lis lia goods and chattels savo save that his big political investments tire are in a vast and complicated partnership co in which the capital stock is indissoluble and enduring according to the wisdom of the numerous partners in antho the concern true T rue the business is ilot of necessity conducted through represent atiles but if a voter is incapable of 0 linder understanding standing his bis interests so far as his observation extends he ha is ia equally incapable 0 of choosing a com competent poteat representative that the most complicated political system existence in exis teace haaften ha sater after a century of life developed in ia lis LIB hands to a system lise likewise wise tie te mi ast dst stable and best adapted ad apted to the banu of man is a self evident aident proof that he be the average voter is thoroughly capable of comprehending and managing his affairs again while it is is a presumable aps cps caa that those having political management are of the chol material ir m a matter of fact they do donot not possess the average antell intelligence 1 9 once and judgment of their counti quency but our oar correspondent insists uon to regarding the constituent as an irro irre 1 1 1 apon spon idiot whose only function is to name some superior beirn being to do his bis thinking for him end and correct his chain him up during his spells of frenzied sentimentality ity and protect lim generally from the results of LIB own unreasonable demands and upon this hypothesis be fabricates lis his argument ari ament and sallies forth to challenge our doctrines concerning municipal government we a are moved to aver that the impression of e his hia readers W trill ill be that ho he himself las be boon c 11 under a frenzy of sentimentality 11 or else elai a mot most remarkable attack of youthful grandiloquence As aa to our correspondents allusions all to attacks of lot hot and cold in in our an ew edera rs to arbitrator it if he ha had quo ted us na fairly fairby there would have appeared no such euch discrepancy BS as lie ho do da scribes the people never have refused to pay their taxes neither have they raised any objection to augment ing the rate of is is no do justification for tho the theory that they hold such objection c certainly not on the part of the council when the city is is in in urgent need of offends he u takes to contradict us ith statistics and has haa garbled the city documents in in the some manner lie ile says 1 I venturo venture to state that an or amina tion of the records of the tha city will disclose this ali 13 state stata of facts that during daring the past three years tho the sum of at least 2000 hag bag been expended in the attempted enforcement of that t tho the prohibitory ordinance and that only about I 1 0 has over ever been returned in in the shape of fines and pen allies showing a cloar clear and hopeless loss to the city of 2000 now we will venture to state that an examination of the records of the city will disclose diec loso facts as follows I 1 namely tint that the city in in the three years past has spent near 2900 2 for the prosecution ol of criminals ot of every sort that included in the 2900 i is expended for secret service all alj of which was waa no doubt connected with the enforcement of the prohibit t tory lory ordin ordinance anFe that during the said three years 2013 instead of has been collected in fines thus thua the city instead of suffering a loss of in its attempt to e enforce n 1 the ordinance ordin anco against the me sale of liquor has spent without demun oration or an average of a year for criminal prosecutions in in general |