| Show undignified AND deresa ABLE SOME of the tactics of in booming the city have into the region of the ludt lu drous rous in some respects sense is jaing supplanted by sound it would be well for biose who have decourse Ye course to blasts n brass bands and flaming ingerl i poa cheap banners to consider what effect such incorporeal are likely ly to have upon sensible at ata a distance or from a distal who might be in dined to hinves men of the world are not dispose to was regard as solid 80 lid that t which is courtly distended by wind instruments hen aen calta calm dis dispassion passion ate afe reasons reamona rea sona explanation gives place to noise excitement shrewd peo pen pie see bela beda d these frenzied enzien hoisting hoist eg efforts a sen ciment of desperation desper atlea which Is ia t in harmony with sub stan bial vali improvement we a of opinion that a more dignified a ar composed effort ort io in the direction r real serial material progress will do mo to the city in a cionti than wll hooping windy tactics will ac alish coolish in a year wind can never P perly erly take the place of work the pier er blows down and demolishes ecial lv if the breeze be of the hurri ne order orde r while the latter builds up tip id ad secures one of the most detestable features of af the crazy wing of the boom is the disposition to coerce to insult respectable citizens in a flagrant and public manner because they do not fall into IL a line prescribed for them is one of the lowest and most detestable testable dp forms of tyranny if a citizen is in ia sympathy s with a movement he will generally be willing to indicate the sentiment by substantial contributions for the tae furtherance of its objects according to his bis ability HP he forfa ii either to withhold his sympathy I 1 I 1 or his means or both those who make him an object of public ridi ridicule cale and gross insult because he exercises that right are contracted and despotic take the instance in point of yesterday the boomers had a placard carried about the city with what is alleged ali I 1 to be the portrait of a well known citizen with an inscription connected with it stating that that was the white man who refused to donate to the fund established to advertise tile the boom on the other side was a picture of a black man who donated a dollar it is insisted that the picture was not intended asa as a portrait even if that were the case which is generally genera ily doubted the gross insult conveyed to lo the caricatures is made ge general n e ral to a class instead of being specific an that class were held up as interior inferior to the negro and in j ij i this country everybody knows what such sach au an affront means I 1 although Alt bough on the surface these an civilized crude proceedings were associated socia soc ted with the chamber of commerce it is not to be thought ajr fira a moment that that body as a wh whole ol 01 e would do otherwise than repudiate and condemn them they represent what should be the antipodes of the methods of that institution whose I 1 sphere by its very name is limited to the most legitimate methods of enhancing the material interests of the city and territory but the very association so is liable to lower the dignity and decrease the usefulness of that body if an a D idea once gets abroad to the e effect that an excitement is bemz promoted by a class of people who loaded up with real estate during the late feverish condition of the realty market in IB order to shift their loads on to otner other shoulders a large holp hole will be made in the boom bucket that will let all the 1 contents out |
