Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-03-25
The MAYORS Inaugural.

message of Mayor Bowen.
The document claims the attention of
every citizen Of Joliet 1t represents the
affairs Of the city to be iu satisfactory con.
ditiop. and recommends measures of utility
in the administration of our city govern
ment. The inaugural is brief, but treats
of the various subjects Of public interest.
There is but enc Recommendation in the
message to which we can ohject-and that
is 10 reference to the reduction recommen-
ded in the cost of advertising delinquent
lots for taxes. The Mayor says that the
cost is about three times that for advertis-
ing aud selling the same description of
property for State and county taxes. As
We Go not believe the Mayor would know
inIly misrepresent, we will simply say that
be is mistaken, at least as far as tue adver-
Using is concerned. Publishers are allow
ed ten cents tract by the county and State
for advertising lands and three cents each
for town lots, for one pubica,i, IL IL the
portion are town lots, so that the pu5lca-
ton fee on most Of the property advertised
is at the rate of ten cents Ter tract for
single publication. AMI this is nothing
more than reasonable ompensation.-
Now. according to the ordinance of our city
10 relation to tax sales, the publication fee
iS for 70 LOT f.
instead of the city cost for advertising being
three times as great as that for county and
State taxes, it is moi as much by consd-
cradle. The truth is, the present pay for
advertising under cur municipal authority,
is not too high. Indeed, we question
whether the publisher of a respectable pa
per couli be induced to put lish for a less
aum. Therefore, as We feel confident that
our Mayor does not wish to deprive the
city printers of what is their just due, we
trust that the Council will make no change
in the price for advertising. Newspapers
have a hard time to get along at the best
and to deprive them Of every little crum
for public advertising, would be ungener>
GUS
With the exception named, we can COM
mend the inaugural message of our Mayor
as worthy Of all confidence. 1t is a straight
forward business Ike document, containing
all that is necessary to be said. The re-
concentrations in favor Of retreuchment
NJ ho r..
the rights of the parties interested and the
interests of the city will permit.
The 'avenging sword" is now unsheatb
ed, and Justice will sleep no more while a
Slave clanks hi1 chain on the Western
Hemisphere.-7TueD Democrat.
We arc glad that our cotemporary has,
at last, defned his position in regard TO
the war His views are of the most ultra
stripe. Indeed he cut niggers Sumner,
and Wade, ard Loveioy. lie comes fully
up to the standard Of Fred Douglass, and
Garrison, and Wendell Phillips.
The editor Of the Republican organ of
this county thus boldly avows that the war
should not cease while there is a slave on
the Western Hemisphere He is for max
my the WAR enc Of usurpation mad outrage
upon the rights of loyal citizens at the
South, as we'll as those who are in arms
against us.
And this is the position of the ulsras Of
the Nsrth. They care nothing about the
constitution or the Unior. They haye been
instrumental in forcing the contest upon
Us, and are now declaring that it shall he
converted into an Abolition war. This is
poor encouragement to our brave soldiers,
who are fighting to restore the Union and
to establish The old land marks as our faith
ers made them.
These ultra avowals of professed friends
of the Administration are not only insult
ing to loyal citizens. hut are calculated to
retard the suppression of the rebellion
We believe that the slavery emancipation
lists are just As much traitors to the consti-
tuition, as are JEFF. Davis, or Beauregard,
or Ya1cey.
Therefore, let our readers peruse the ex-
tract which we have given above from the
True Democrat, and decide for themselves
whether we have traitors amongst US CT
not.