Show A statement of facts TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL I 1 in n recent issues of the local organ of tile republican party there have appeared it a number of articles article 8 intended ill chided cli ded doubt doubtless leks not so much to injure myself aud and democratic colleague as the political party to which we hold allegiance tho the matter mailer therefore being of public concern I 1 desire to encroach upon your space to notice a few points to question in III the sept issue of that paper the following question from the minutes of ortho the city council appears darber barber and carlisle booko against the bills billa of Vater master and road supervisor because they were ivere based on per jay day wages for a nans mans work the fact is we opposed tile the bills billa because we understood men were allowed in said bills per day of eight hours work when men in tile the city could bo be had at nay day of ten hours who would have been glad lad to obtain the work at that time when the minutes were read Hess rs barber and carlisle objected to tho th 0 statement stat 0 m C nt as it is recorded because it did not fully state their position although it was their sido side of tile the question that was supposed to bo be going on record and they were responsible for it the majority of the council illy refused a corree correction tion and thus displayed dis P caved laved an evident intention teri tion to make political capital in tile the future never before ba had I 1 been refused the privilege of correcting rny my own statements stare ments in in the minutes of an organized body there i is s no man that would be more willing than I 1 for tho the laborer to receive a day or more for fo r his bis work if the conditions were wera favorable and all his fellows q in the community on unity could share with him the same privilege 0 I 1 am opposed however to the favoring fa v 0 r ing of a few men at the expense of the many during the past few years years there has been a surplus of laborers in this city and other places of tile territory men have been glad to work for and per day of ten hours firm i and private individuals divi duals duala have been paying paving said wages wages 0 and I 1 question if there is a member of the city council who has paid for common labor for himself during the past two years for a days work of ten hours let alone coo foy eight hours work if anyone any one has done so it haq bag been an incident displaying charity and personal friendship rather than a good business sense of surrounding conditions A public office is a public trust greater care should be shown in the expenditure pend iture of public funds than of our own paying ia 2 n 1 day for work that often men are anxious ar bious to todo do for it day is a reckless and extravagant expenditure of public funds it is an injustice to tile the majority of the laboring 0 men of the city who own property which is taxed and who were u unable to get the benefit of the cites generosity the revenue of the city would not justify giving g iving 0 all the laboring men of th the e city employment the man who was not among the favored ones had bad to seek for work at to per day of ten hours while paying 11 taxes a part of which went to his more favored brother who received 2 per day of eight or nino nine hours work in other words while ahe ill majority j of the he laboring men inen of of the the C city 1 ay iy received from to 15 cents per hour for work those employed by bv the city received from 20 to 25 23 cents cants per hour for their labor it will be seen from the foregoing statements that the 2 a day policy is a IT wrong rong one to those who expended public funds more recklessly and extravagant than one would his own it give gave employment durino during hard bard times to but three men to every every four who might 0 have been employed thus giving direct d benefit from the expenditure of public funds to one fourth less number of families than might 0 have received it from one fourth to one third more work could li have ave been done on tho the streets aud and the fridgen fridges and the laborers property with the rich mans would have been benc fitted by it K E CARLISLE |