Show ARE THEY ASLEEP OR INSANE another meeting of the city council lost evening another chance to take some decisive action while therdo is yet time with reference to the impending high water and another adjournment without a single word being said bald or a single move made toward the settlement of the question verily the calmness and imperturbability ability of out oui municipal bolous in the facts of danger partakes of the su sublime blimel the explanation of this courage may be worth seeking outside ot of a blind belief in the deliverance to be wrought out by an overruling providence two suggestions suggest lous arise as to the probable au cause one to is that the members of the city council do not live in the threatened district and have no personal interests there that can be put in jeopardy the othor other is that they in their official capacity do not know how to meet the difficulty and that their apparent calmness Is nothing a g but their real the it latter ter hypothesis to is the more charit able it at least does but imply ignorance ance the other would come little short of being a crime it remains with the council and the city authorities to decide whether the community shall continue in this matter to charge them with malfeasance or regard them with pity unless they act and act quickly and effectively the cloak ot of the latter will scarcely shelter them from the indig nation of an outraged people la Is there nothing that can cause them to sense the peril Is their intellect incapable of noting the evide evidences li ces already manifested that the angry waters are beginning to chafe abate and beat against their imperfect restraints are they so simple as to be lulled by the siren promise that since the canals and ditches have with few exceptions car ried off the water brought down by the recent rains they will alio suffice to carry off the fres freshets fresh bete ets that will follow the melting snows snowe every person of sense must be aware that the extreme backwardness of the season will wili have one sure result when the storms at last clear way away and the sun already high toward his midsummer goals goal does begin to be folt felt the snow will melt like hoarfrost hoar frost and stream and creek and lake jake and river will rise with great rapidity and roar with fury every cold torm storm every cold night bight only postpones the day of da danger inger indeed it adds tot to the he apprehension that exists for it eita either er increases in creagen ati the e so t snow in the or gives assurance aee urance that the suns rays will to be still hotter when they get a chance for their own sake and for the sake babe of the city add aad its ita inhabitants the NEWS implores the authorities to go to work and do something eom ething if nothing more let lee them ask aak questions loce or if they are too proud for that let them at least cease to be obstacles and get out of other peoples peopled way we demand that our servants whom we pay shall help UP or that they will free us ue of their officiousness and presence and permit us to help ourselves |