| Show MERELY A DUTY DONE just a word in reply to the gibes of those who affect to think the NEWS has baa gone off prematurely in its criticism of some borne of the city councils work not a sentence een tence has been written or pub liebta in a spirit of captiousness and there has bai oot not been a single stricture so BO for far as aa we can learn that has boa not met with the approval of the oom community because every one has been bawd based upon the naked facts if there la Is anything to regret in the premises it is that the light was not sooner turned upon the deal by which the cites gas stock was sold and that the ridiculously imperfect garbage ordinance was waa not earlier held up to public derision in both instances some of the he city officials admit that if they had bad known before what they have since learned their action been different and their cp pp position po eltion more active it is not yet too late to correct the mistakes in ia one of these transactions nor Is ia it improper to emphasize the shortsighted noes which it is in believed has proved so costly in the other lo in this manner may the dangers of precipitation be realized and guarded against for the future on similar grounds may the action of this paper be justified in calling attention to the proposals looking to the purchase of the cites water system it to is all very well for high and mighty councilmen coun oilmen and their organ to say my no such attempt had bad been or was going to be made that the was parading a shadowy bugaboo but the NEWS knows better such a scheme wat wa in contemplation figures were quoted there were negotiations forming and about to be opened and some of the city council know knew of it we do not believe and never have believed that the council would make the sale at any price their good sense forbids such a suspicion furthermore they would not net dare to while if the worst COMO came to the worst they would have been legally enjoined from con gum mating it but in all this there was nothing to prevent the use tue of the information at hand in putting the community on their guard and giving them the opportunity anity to t express themselves in unmistakable indignation at the bare consideration of such an idea that much has been done the citizens have been freed from the menace or at least thoroughly awakened to and warned against it more thau than that this paper did not attempt with that result it Is ia content |
