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Show show them that street as a sample of American party work, and this, notwithstanding the fact that it is no different now from what it has been every year since 1847. Of course, if the Council paves the street it will not save them, because those who now are swearing at the Council because of the condition of the street will, after it is paved, pomt to it as a sample of extravagance ex-travagance and will assert that that street had been in use for sixty years, and that it was all right ; that there was no complaint about it, but in their anxiety to spend the people's money the extravagant Council Coun-cil ordered it paved. ' It will not do to try to conciliate public opinion in regard to it, and the only question ought to be whether a street so frequented, a street where all people have to go to get to the county and city offices, ought not to be in better form than it now is. SHOULD PAVE STATE STREET. We think it would be a good idea for the City Council to take a look at State street for three or four blocks below where the pavement leaves off and pee if it is not possible to arrange to have that street paved this year. Since '47 that street has been a "Slough of Despond" in the winter and a grand repository of dust in the summer. No one, who in the old days ever attended a circus on that square where the joint building now is, will forget the dust that he waded through to reach the big tent and to get away. No one who ever drove a team along that block in the winter will ever forget the sense of relief re-lief he experienced when he got out alive. It is right in front of the only State capitol that we have, it is a place that is frequented very much, in summer and winter, and it ought to be paved. The present Council ought to see to it, because be-cause it is the delight of those who do not believe in the American party to take people down there and |