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which Bhonld afford an imncneS rovent*o to tho
city, II tho lioonats we're honestfy collected.
This ono Item payn tho city about t.ico % much
therefore. be aiyantsgcona!y worked up vory
fully. Il 10 not probable that thero eyor waa =
tlm0 when cvory saloon paid liconso, but thor
have boon many limos when = much larger pro-
portion more paid than nnn. Tho first year aftor
tho BIZ fro there appeared from Tue books to
have been 2: 78l paving saloons. Tho following
lent standardization OF the license dopartmcnt.
and henumber COLLECTED from ran np TO 3,o02,-
the largest over known in the history Of tho
city. Hut tho sAloon-kcopora helpod elect II. D.
Go,yn Mayor and ~ hsy to9k
any. ratio. 1853 .of thom who bad
paid tho year before did not psY under Colvln.
This Is on tho very Rsnorols superstition that
there was no incraaan In 1874 aB over 1873 when
any and every man knows that there VAS la1go
natural increano that year. aud that thoro has
becn just such an increase ovcry yoar. Tho
difference ia that Mayor Dond rccognizcd that
fact and collected tbo tax. whtle GoLvtn don't
Gon de doan n T. s 's as gss s tse do
c!oase ia receipts from Tits aource is mn
alarming one, antl tlreatouH Ill to the tax
pay,s.t: Only 2'4oe i!quos.shop.s p.i hare o. paid
thoy falling OF Of 429 liceuacs, or a22, 900, from
Covns first year, and of CSC licenses. $50, 772t
from Bonds yohr, Is no encouragement that tho
municipal Affairs Of Chicago aso to bo honestly
have been for the two yohra last past.
THIS bare fact is Baddontng enough to the
lovers Of honest government mud Al economical
administration OF affairs, anil 1t needs no cou1-
mens. Il is duo, borrower, to say that thoro Is
an explanation, OF, raehor,
~---- TWO ExpLANArtoXs,-
ono given by tts Co!yin party and tho other by
tho people gcuorall5. Will tho rosdcr please
look 1t them:
CoLv,n's friends, who comprise, Of course, the
un an excuso for Tho figures given above that
there nre not na many saloons ia tho city this
year a. tharo wero last ytar, aud that thora wero
not as many then as tho year before: They saY
that tho "hhrd ttmoa" have forced the liquoE-
se'!ets to 60 out Of business to great extont.
and that therefore, the lessenlng revenue from
that source 10 unavoidable.
This looks as u I might bo true, and =
reporter SGT 70 work to prov prove Or dtaproys ~
esro ' nc @'es st vsifod ak iR0 rom tss ss
up on ono sido and down tho Other, and careful
" noted the Htreet number OF every saloon aud
beur-shop on both sides. Having thus made out
boon, licensed, tho reporter wont to tho City
Clork'a Iicenso rogistof and copied from that tho
streee-number OF every saloon on tho Same
strees. aud within tho samo linhltB, which vaa
credited With having pnld tho regular foo and
having liccnss In consequence thereof.
THE nEAuLT
was to flud, on comparing tho two lists, that 81
Of tho 122 placca wefo crodtod on tho books with
having paid. and 85 p!soes did not appear, and
could not therefore havc paid unleBa the book
keeping was cut Of Joint, which did not appear
probable, from tho nature Of tho eYstam and tho
character Of tho mon uho havo tho matter In
charge.
Lest there should be any question about the
ttA At Ia HIN Hat nt
saloons on State B.rnet which do not appear on
tltn City Cinrk'a bdoks ia flnraHith enhfolund