The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-24

to have at the head OF city affairs, for he
may push works Of improvement on scale
that will be rulnious to the city; thinking
they do not cost anything certainly is a
great inducement for undertaking great
projects. If the merchants produced here
the stocks they SELL the bakers the wheat
they consume, The butchers the cattle they
slaughter, the saloon keepers the beer and
whiskey they SELL the mayors proposition
would appear differently from what il does
but as matter Of tact the great bulk Of
the money received by these traders has to
be sent abroad to pay for the supplies they
deal out and doing business on Mayor
Halliday's plan, instead OF depending upon
outside resources, would soon exhaust the
wealth of community, and drain it of its
last dollar, We may be mistaken, of
course, but we adhere very strongly to the
opinion THAT the affairs of this city, from
the smallest to the greatest, are entirely
safe in the hands of Mayor Halliday aud
the city councl-Quite Ms safe, at any rate,
as they would be under the direction even
OF men having the mental caIibre OF the
Argus publisher. The Argus man seems to
be firmly of the opinion that it is much
safer to stand still than to move. This
would be true if everything around did the
same thing. But the trouble is, that men
aud things generally do move; 1t is even
said that "thc world do movc,' Of which
fact Gf it is fact the Argus man has ev-
IDENTIFY had no lntimation and desires no
practical Illustrations; and therefore stat
ionary men aud things are mOmentarily in
danger of being swept away aud buried
out of sight. Perhaps no man has ever
given more positive proof of an ingrained
distaste for all motion, all enterprise, all
progress, life, prosperity, than does the Ar
gus man in his reply to Mayor Halliday's
argument A narrower view Of a question Of
such public Importance as that presented
by Mayor Halliday, than that embodied in
the Argu. mans reply could not possibly
have cminated from the tatened skull of an
Indian papoose Of fourteen moons. Because
the money paid TO the resident lsborcr upon
our streets, the resident mechanic mi oyed
in our houses, the resident brlcknaker,
plasterer, mason, is paid to our grocer-, bak
ers, dry goods and clothing, and hardware
and wooden-ware men, and by them, finally
sent out to the manufactures for new stock,
therefore, the expenditure Of this money
will not benefit the city and therefore the
improvement IN question would result
ultimately IN drain upon the wealth Of the
city at large. The Argus man ignores the
facts that a good little portion Of each
months earnings could and would be laid
aside By the aborers and mechanics that
another good little sum would be laid aside
by the merchants as profit on goods and
supplies soIi aud that in lieu Of the re-
mainder, if sent away, there woIld be an
influx of dry-goods groceries, boots aud
shoes, clothing, hardware, stoves, etc, etc,
and that there might be even an extra i'm
portation of liver pads and Goldfish balls
for the Argus man and Others afflicted as he
seems to be with multiplicity Of disorders
and a fear that he will stsrve to death,
Thus the merchant would have new
stocks Just as large as before, and little
surplus in his safe the consumer would
have lived, Lave more Of the comforts Of
lie, and a little surplus IN his pocket; the
capitalist would have improved properly,
increased in value beyond the Outlay he
may have made and the city at large would
be improved, and offer better inducements
to capitalists from abroad. But apply the
Argus logic and the capitalist hords his
money, the city remains ummproyed, the
laborer and mechanic starve TO death, the
merchant keeps his goods and doesn't have
to send money away for new stock. The
Argus logic is damphoolishness with cap
ital u and in fine an Derlatiya decree