Show ONLY A PAVING MATTER It will be e a n mistake to consider the Dr Goshen incident closed Gentlemen Gentlemen Gentle Gentle- Gentlemen men may mar sa say Why that is only I a paving pa matter But the tho principle for which Mr Goshen contends is bigger even eyen than paving and paYing and that Isa Isa is isa a pretty big subject flack Back of the paving part of or the time proposition lies li-es this- this Shan Sham the elt city authorities keep keeli their promises Shall they treat all contractors alike Shall Shan the they obe obey tho time law Shall ShaH they consider consider consider con con- sider the wishes of the people who parthe pay par the bills If the they do not keep faith if they pIa play favorites among contractors if tho they disregard the law if the they are indifferent indifferent in in- I different or scornful regarding the time will of the lie people then people then the they will have to tobe tobe tobe be punished and the powers that seek to perpetuate their power will havo 0 to be punished too I night flight now in the time present summer is the time timo time to settle these questions The same sarno agency which directs the council which defends the ba bad action of the recreant councilmen which Is seeking toda today to discipline Dr Goshen for his plain speaking asks the lie people to vote six hundred thousand dollars in bonds With the bland admission that the million dollars already raised has been spent and the work for which those bonds were issued is not nearly done with tho the astonishing declaration that nobody expected t that at would woud The bo d enough mOne money the fhe same people now demand deman another supply sup sup- ply of cash When charged with with breaking breaking faith and anti disregarding ing the law in the matter matter matter mat mat- ter of paving First South street the they reply that everyone knew they couldn't do what they thoy promised to do There lies the time importance of the matter Tho The city authorities must be taught that contracts are made to be I l kept They must be held to a n strict accounting And until the they understand under I stand that they will have hare to be denied de do- nied any further supplies of money for public improvements Since they can not not be trusted they will not be he trusted So that it Is bigger than a matter of paving and paYing and that would In itself have been big enough It goes to the fidelity with which duty Is discharged I and to the present progress of or our J cI city i |