| Show FLOODS PUPS AND PEARLY GATES harvey was in compla cent mood yesterday yeat erday he says there is no more danger of a flood than there will be of his finding a saint on the other aide of the pearly gates the trouble with those people he said is that they want a flood but we propose to fool them the work of leveling the canal on roper street is going ahead rapidly and all the rest of the system to is in excellent condition I 1 this mornings tribune the NEWS is ie also in complacent mood and it ventures to hope that if there is ie no more danger of a flood than there is of harvey meeting a saint or anyone else on the other side of the pearly gates than there is of harvey finding even himself there we have all been needlessly alarmed but in addition to being complacent the NEWS wants to be truthful hence it submits that what mr harvey knows about saints and about the pearly gates is quite equal to if it does not exceed what he knows about fighting high water or preparing against it we are willing to stand or fall by the proposition that if mr harvey is correctly quoted in the foregoing utterance he be knows known no more either about the danger of a flood or of on the other side C of if the pearly rates eates than a speckled pup knows about the sular parallax |
