Show I V i A A COMMON SCOLD Ii 1 1 The News is disgruntled with Chief B Barlow dow It Itc c him Charges a him with incompetency TI There e e seems to toI I b bno 1 no satisfying the News i. i I Four Fout mr I years ago 0 at It 4 this time it was trying J 0 the st chief of the knew t police city e ever eer el trying ing J and nd convicting him every day clay on paper and theof theof the thc I 1 t sf of a self sel confessed thief or a self con con- f holdup holdup- or a self confessed bunko or ori l r i ea a a burglar or a lo lost t woman was vas all sufficient to toen enable en- en able the the News to make out a clear lar case case cae against the t I j chie chiep The News was directly in the thc conspiracy that t held convicted criminals i i jail as is witnesses N that t sent for them at public expense s t to outside t states to come to testify It It looked with perfect lv nV A 4 r Ar complacency upon the expenditure of thousands of ot ofA ott t t A dollars lIars of public money money- expended to gather up evidence to convict this chief of All V's Vs j ence of police v Jh the t time le too it was notifying the o outside world that J H r. r aJ Lake I i ke was an unwholesome place to come conic to J. J l officers were corrupt that they were in inSL SL I F office s solely lel to plunder the city It l i ari ii its it charges t i d r after fter day daJ week after week month mouth after I month i and aul year after year and never nc di did l stop on 1 y chief hief until in a regular t trial ial il in ct urt he 1 was triumphantly tri acquitted i 1 irV i rV- rV l Then rhen when he finally was out ut of office the News 11 practically admitted that it had nothing personal I J j Av aga against t the I Ie c chief I lIe f t that I lat I its t ts S W whole 1 10 I C ann was ain was against 4 t live party in iLl power And the same News is the one on which for fifty finy l i ars r aw the thi if ii town 1 filled filled ith and had L P no S of p protest that knew s scores ores of thc the olli- olli r of f city were corrupt bitt always stood tF to condone their crimes that watched watch d while 4 1 L I. t tile the police force was w-as made up in iii great part of thugs whom thc the people feared more they than they did I. I ilik the hold holdups ps and burglars that infested the cit city l The News saw air this for forty years without one l- l improvement nude made worthy of notice and sa saw sav V S every vel dollar of 01 the city's taxes absorbed by tho the t city officers without a protest never ne a street I paved not a sidewalk sidewalk laid laid not nota a street sprinkled i and nd id in what ought to be he the healthiest part of the thc t town w but just where the preva prevailing winds winds drove s' s thAt poisoned poison cd dust into t the throats of thc the little n c causing using every year a row ro of little graves Ithe CIty ity cemetery many rods long a sight most f pitiful to see And when efforts were im le to ha have Ye th the city i v ff t p in ded the News had a a. famous doctor get up p fr testify i ii in court that dirt dire was healthy And Amid v v j t 1 Y when hen the police l beat beat to death a a human being that f. f I they had taken prisoner the News that always v f kept kept fresh fres it its faculty for wholesale falsehood l lj t p a gl glowing wing picture of the heroic struggle which the police made the against mob when it V J knew Very well that there was not a policeman in T sight r and that the thc poor victim fatally beaten was thrown out to the mob v p l 7 J And now it t talks about a reign of of terror terror- it talks about incompetency in office it has been t the tho death head of thc the city for five years a notice i r th b go good god d people to keep away an invitation to thugs 0 come and all the time ine it has been heen the organ of church the that at the thc faithful e. e organ orga of its creed Ii an organ wInch which in m truth has been an enemy 1 I i the h or non masses e for more than half half half-a a ecu cell t rJ while it has been claiming to be their friend tI 1 P ii l i when lien the thc chief duty of it has been heen to keep t ed oi on the necks and on n the souls of a Y iJ people the chains that made them slaves h ii If any one thinks there is any exaggeration Hon in int t t tIit th above to such we will that it it is but hut a ii 1 statement of what that sheet has been to this l l' l r nd to this p people ople for nrc than half a century |