| Show A THEFT OF THUNDER at the last previous meeting of the city council it was the agreement and was so ao announced by the president that at last nights session the special order would woula be the motion of mr follard to fix the tax rate at live five mills on the dollar but bat lo 10 I 1 and behold last evening the bell wether 9 of we the liberal rock flock bad a resolution all ready to present embodying in exa exact et terms the motion of mr pol fol land to pave the way for this a mo tion of another kind was made by one of the flock which as a matter of form no doubt was waa debated for a while and voted down then came the previously vre prepared pared resolution in vain was the point of order made that folland bollands Fol lands Is motion was what the councilmen were to vote on the chair announced the question as being on the resolution just introduced which carried naturally there 14 1 4 a contemptible trick in this which may need W a word of explanation we are on the eve of a political carapa campaign ign true to its instincts the liberal party is in on tha lookout for vantage ground at such a time as this not to bring the rate of taxation to the lowest point consistent with a good administration of public affairs would be for those responsible to commit hari karl kari the leaders are smart enough to realize this thin furthermore to permit a democrat or anybody but a liberal to initiate the reduction would be to permit something of credit to attach itself to the party doing it with the likelihood of some ome voted following it R rather ether then than permit an advantage fairly gained t to 0 accrue to I 1 political opponents there be jtb liberals as we can see who will violate parliamentary law upset recognized usage and cast discredit upon their own word it is altogether contemptible and those responsible for it should be made to feel fee if they can feel just how bow contemptible temp tible it is now let upright impartial citizens citizen without regard to party see that the authors of the political piracy do not profit by it while we are disposed to admit that many things are tolerated in political procedure that elsewhere would not be and that to a great extent the rule of fairness to is suspended suspend eds there is still a limit to the extent to SO which sharp practice must go and the perpetrators not be 8 subjected to denunciation cia tion the aut author b or of the morey letter gained nothing for his party by V his freery and only infamy for himself because he be went to an unwarrantable ran table length so 00 also did the ma majority of the liberals in the city council when by a miserable theft not a stroke of superior diplomacy ou or the exhibition of any unusual smartness except such anoh as the burglar poe possesses senes they stole from mr folland and his party the prestige which was theirs the people will restore the th property we hope |
