Show letter from fair play EDITOR OF or TUB tim STANDARD allow roe me a little space in your columns to unburden myself on the subject that so much agitate the minds of our city dads lads hut but which agitates the minds of our laboring men a vast deal more are retrenchment trench ment many and various have been tl the ie plans for cutting down our expenses sea but to my brain it occurs that instead d ot f leaving our streets in the state they are especially those that have been started and left in such a condition tion as to bring down anything but blessings on the heads of our city council it would woul bo better to cut off our street sprinkling and let them who have the benefit of it have the tile pleasure of paying I 1 do to not bee why I 1 aa as a taxpayer should help pay tor something that I 1 get no bened t from this one item 1 I uric understand eretano costs the city about per month or about each season would I 1 L not ba better to pay that amount to our laborin laboring men and arid turn the money over to oui our merchants who in in turn an pay for their own sprinkling and litile keep the tile money movi moving ng another 10 0 i it t that looks bad to me while i I 1 think our ii mayors a ors intentions are good I 1 do not think wo we need as large nor as expensive a fire department part ment ditto in our police department I 1 think we could get plenty of good men who could act as 11 specials until wo we are able to d do 0 better our laboring men must live and support their families and they must have something to do to earn the wherewith and what lias has been their wages for the past three months after paving paying a discount to get their money I 1 fear this council is making a record that will tell against them next election FAIR PLAY |