Show A IL DIR TY ca ULE BLE SUES I 1 tho caption on of this arlice arlic e is a I 1 remark quoted front fro ii a speech made before the city com council icil by I 1 is worthiness the honorable maor of beaver city the remark is applied to describe the and can call only be accepted as a just application tipp lic aaion to this piper when hacked backed by proof even though awil caming front from tho the honorable mayor of 0 our city the occasion which called forth the remark was in an article which appeared in our cola colanino colim ns a couple of weeks 1 ago io i relative to tile the char charging ing of license for a theatrical performance upon that occasion we took the liberty of quoting from the llie ordinances of beaver city pg 77 last paragraph parag on the page and in our own mind concluded that tile quoted language had reference to what it sa s1 says vs A few lines above the quoted paragraph there is a line which reads IIA A license for a theatre 2500 this comes from the same section from which we before took a slice sice and the heading 0 of the section states that there shall be collected annually in advance unless otherwise provided etc and then are enumerated the various various pui suits licensed farid amounts to be charged in cori conversing C with wilh tl c e honorable mayor of beaver cily upon this subject he be informed us that the clause we ine quoted had no reference whatever to a theatrical performance but merely to such tl things aings as ire are therein set forth that a theatrical entertainment was not a concert ball trick of 1 nor any other tion hw lw amusement or 07 ance A new dictionary is is now in demand commensurate with the learning of the mayors of the he 1901 century cep tury poor webster lias bas spent a elifet lifetime line to no purpose still mill we refer our readers for ach of the it rn foregoing ta websters unabridged that they may inay see and read ie amari american authority Au authority thorit y has to say and we will refer to english au fior josities jori ties later on the honorable mayor says we lye did not quote enough 0 of the ardi ordinance n relating to the subject we quoted all there was to quote considering si dering the light in which reason would direct a person to read the jurdi ordina it is pot not to be presumed we ve take it thatis a romi company any comes come jo 0 o beaver and advertises f io 0 er form excuse tile the term terill but allo allow us the use of it for the present for three nights aliat they desire to 0 o take out a licese for a WHOLE n R those who compiled the ordinances for braver city under understood undershot d this well enough and to provide for such emergencies placed a clause liere here regula regulating cl the terms for one or mote moie nights besides the annual license of 25 for or a theatre lias has no reference to the exhibitions that may be hall haj there that lias has reference merely to the place where amusements of a theatrical charac fe e are conducted and an J not to tle tie p themselves now if no t theatre is built then that part of the ordinance is not in effect and we must therefore fall lack back upon the last clause 0 on paga 77 but bill as by the magots i definition p nc me or of these refer to a theatrical thea trica I 1 performance then has he or any other officer been entirely wrong wrong 0 in clanging clar ciar ging any license whatever for such buch business because ro provision is made in the ordinances of be esa a ver vcr city if this does not tile the ho honorable mayor says that the next company that gives a theatrical exhibition here bore will pay 25 before they show at all we aggree that this is durf atly correct if there is any ordinance providing fur for the s same ame but we cannot wink ut at any attempt to override the plain language of the ordinances and be it mayor or the whole council combined ed if they overstep the rules ruler of their r own governing they inus must A be gently remind ed of that fact and like good little boys boy retract their course to tile satisfaction af pf their constituency |