Show t ADDING INSULT TO INJURY t First the city council crippled d the I- I public library Now r-ow it insults the F r j members of the board I The city appropriated two thousand 1 dollars for the library and then spent I the money The ch city council had no more business to spend spent that mone money N than they had to rob a bank And when the fund was exhausted tho the city officials calmly told the library S board there was no money for them Of course courso tho the council had appropriated aled that money and of course the board had proceeded to maintain the library for near a year year c r assuming that the money appropriated for that use would be applied to lo that use At t the end of ot the tho year ear the tho board was advised that it had overdrawn its account It had supposed it had that two two thousand dollars to its credit It roo r had don done on I nothing of the kind The Kearns city cUy officials had needed the theY Y mone money and had bad taken It f A And now when the board malting making f its Us necessary and truthful report ril report states that It never received the money mon money ey OJ that was appropriated for It the tho Kearns papers calls caBs the members of I Ithe the board a lot of liars Hare and tells them the they better keep hep t P out of politics That Is what a man gets who bo protests protests protests pro pro- tests against the crowd ab abstracting abstracting ab- ab public money and using it I for private purposes It Injures the public Interest and insults the men injured If Ir the Kearns crowd had left that library r fund alone there would woul have been no complaint Filching the library fund tony may bo be a Kearns party part virtue but Jut It Is plain dishonesty for every err one else |