The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1883-06-23
THE VETO OVER-RULED.
wILMINGT0N's w0ULD-BE AUTOCRAT
sNUBBED By CITY COUNCIL.

There Is an old and classical adage ''Quos
Deus yut perdere. prius dementat.
Those whom Jove would destroy, he first
depriyes of reason. What reason, or out
ward semblance of the rational element can
be discerned in Mayor Wales defense of his
veto in the case of the City open market?
The ction is purely in keeping with the
high-toned aristocratic conceptions of the
Mayor, who cannot endure the thought of
having a slovenly unhandsome farmers
cart brought between the wind and his no.
6ility. Fortunately City Council have
boldly and resolutely upheld the rights of
citizens and by unanimous vote of full
meeting, in which party differences were
utterly set aside TO give emphasis to their
action, have declared that the free and open
City Market now and hitherto existing shall
continue to be maintained, Mayor Wales
and his susceptibilities to the contrary.
There are some men who have an Unborn
talent for getting on the wrong side of
every question. No experience of fortune
will teach them anything. They would
crowd back the march of Progress Though
for years forced to recede before its inevita-
BILE, inexorable demands. They would set
up against the demands of fiee people the
Dagon of aristocratic exclusiveness. They
would submit to be stripped of their adven-
titious splendor, piecemeal' latter by tatter,
but would die shiyering pleading for the
honors of martyrdom. They would bid
Jove hold back the winds rather than mend
a hole in their coat
just this, and nothing more, is the feeling
OF Mayor Wales in regard to the City mar
ket. Totally unable to recognize and mo We
with the gene. GUS progressive tendencies of
the age, he would have the boon of the
thousands denied to give himself an inch
more elbow room on the street. He would
beat back and buffet the rude ocean for
pFesuming to wet his feet. He would say
| to his fellow citizens-to the thousands of
| slftisaps who toll that he may live-v. Not for
you, but for me was this side walk opened
and graded. Go to, you are plebeian, you
are vulgar, you are offensive. Your wives
fiutter by and disturb my serenity with
their tawdry cotton garments; your rude
farmers atfront me with their buclram and
fustian. and my aristocratic friends am
annoyed. Against your necessities set up
my prerogative-I interpose my veto.
City Council has stepped in between the
Mayor and the public, and bids the would.
be autocrat remember that 1878 and 1885
represent two very different epoohs in
American history. The fossilized relics Of
the days of the Calverts, the CAROLS, the
Lees, the Pinkneys, the Taneys, the Pacas
She Hammonds have no place, save. as cur
iosities, in the America of to-day. We hav,
no sort of use for them Not for the main
tenance of such hybrids of freedom as thes,
did the pilgrims of the Mayhowcr cross til,
ocean. Not that the traditions of class dis
tinction might be preserved on the spo
where they toiled and fought and many o
them died, did George Washington lea,
his ragged, footsore but indomitable hos
through wintry storms a hundred years ago
We say to City Council Bravo, we'll done
This City market, free and open to all, i
something more than a cheap and read
source of supply to our citizens. 1t bring
hundreds of farmers into the city to spen,
their money in our stores. 1t may crowd
street or two inconveniently for a few
hours, but no good that ever accrued to
people was attained without little evil
The Kent and Newcastle county farmer
have at present free and he rty welcome
long may they enjoy it. We would be sorr
to see them pent and prisoned up With
four walls, that the nostrils of Mayo
Wales might be spared, and ill-gOtten fee
find their way into the pockets of hi
friends.