| Show A FEW GENTLE REMARKS the spectacle presented to this thin patient community two or three times a week by the gaseous and illuminated body known as the city council la Is one to make thoughtful men bite bile their lips lipa in humiliation and tools crack their throats with ith unrestrained laughter surely undignified childishness and piddling incapacity could no further go 0 than in the lengths achie achieved veU luring during the past few weeks by what we are unfortunate enough to have fur for a municipal legislature the worst feature of the case is the re recent cent activity of ef mouth on the part of these members whose notorious unfitness an fitness tor for the position has heretofore escaped critic criticism elsm because they were discreet dla creet enough to keep quiet of late they have followed the bad example of garrulity set met bythell colleagues with the result that the sessions are given up to a dreary mass man of vapid and at times ill natured prattle from which tue most diligent search scarcely succeeds tn in extracting a grain of sense it if this be called contempt of court or rather rathe of council di oh n our part we shall fry ry to bear with resignation the penalty for at last expressing what we have long been forced to feel yet the NEWS is sure the members of the council are not bad men some of them are really able and not one is indifferent to the cites welfare they doubtless want to do what is right and pru probably bably think they hive have done the best they can if this is ia the case we apologize here and now for it is in manifestly unfair to blame people for what they don dont donit it know at the same time we submit whether the gentlemen do not themselves think they have already wasted time enough in all conscience to revise five sets of ordinances and whether they think it a part of their official duties to spend hour after hour wrangling like a lot of boys over a trivial question as to a clerks clerkie letter and its disposal whether they think they are earning the extra campens i tion which special sessions bring them whether they are satis batts fled with the figure they cut before their constituents and the world whether in fact they do not think it would be a measure of economy and in the interest of public dignity all round to the meetings altogether aud and lot let municipal affairs run themselves the NEWS is in not bard to please ordinarily but it admits that just now it thinks almost any kind of a change would be for the better hence it rises and in a modest way asks for a change |
