Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-03

Entered at the Post Office at Waterbury, Conn.,, IS second class matter.
 TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1888. AS TT WAS AND AS TT IS. | We surrender large portion of our space to the Message of the Mayor to the Court of Common Council submitted at the inaugural meeting of the new Board last night. We give it in it's entirety in order that no injudicious curtailment should impair it's importance as whole, or that His Honor our Chief Magistrate should not even, in accident, be misrepresented by the publication of text without con test The document is interesting and inform ing-would we could say joy inspiring in it's contrasts of the old time and the new. "Al old times are good" according to the proverb; and we, if we lived long enough, should find that the times now so much Tout of joint'' in all the essentials of prosperity would be classed in the cat egory of the bountiful years. But there is no ideal picture in the Mayors representa- tion. The past simplicity is set out in bold relief against the present confusion the economy of municipal management in the days of old, side by side with the costh- ness-without the means of paying or raising the cost-of our divided, and, sometimes ineffective because of division in our multiplicity of civic governors. Too much governed is the true description of our city rule; as it is we fear in great degree the explanation of the contrast be- tween past and present.
 It is we say, pleasant to read of the sub lime simplicity of our early fathers-of the Acadian economy of the city in its in fancy; but not at all heartening to extend our ::vision few pages farther on and find that after large appropriations and ex penditures to defray the expense of city management in 1887, and without satisfac- tory results in the matters of public com fort and conveniences-the Mayor has to confess that the city enters on 8 new year with an empty treasury. In the good old times the annual outlay on the streets was less than thousand dollars; the fire de- partment expenditure was represented by the cost of few hundred feet of hose; the police were paid by fees for work per formed; and other departments were un- known and we cannot say, with all our ad- miration of the past that the absence of water, sewers and other requisites to health was commendable advantage. However, if the fathers of the city did not enjoy these advantages, it was solace that they did got have to pay for them. But look to the itemized statements of the Mayor under all the heads of City Government and ther put to yourselves the question: does the city receive commensurate benefits for the actual payments, or the indebtedness thai must be paid. The total liabilities of tht city January, 1, 1S88-above all assets were $3SO,0OO. Hang the expense yor will say-what is half million dollars tt city like Waterbury, with it's growing population and increasing trade and ad vanced culture. Three hundred and eighty thousand of bonded indebtedness on tn, city. One hundred and twenty-nine thous and on School Districts and Township The total indebtedness of the Corporation of the City, Town and School, $579, ,O00 This was dainty dish to set before tn City for New Years financial festivity Let us hope for the best. The appropria tions for the present year exceed those o 1887 by over $35,000. New taxation deemed necessary. The Mayor suggest t'rigid economy''-a Clair and equitabl assessment of the City's grand ist," and ''general reduction of expenditures il the several boards of public works There is something illogical or impliedl accusatory in the last recommendation. I there is room for reduction of expenditur there must have been extravagance in tn past; and if the extravaganza did not giv to the city what it needed, where comes il the hope for reduction.
 We need not to day follow the Mayo through his statements and suggestions flo the future, in the matters of Police, Fire Streets, Sewers, Lighting, Water, Sec His Honor's views are clear, concise an' comprehensive enough for thorough under standing by our citizens. Under some o the heads, or all of them, we may hay words to say from time to time. To da we content ourselves with re-echoing tn sentiment of the Mayor, that with tn dawn of New Year New Council wit new hopes and new purposes will hay good opportunity to institute reduced re form in all departments of the City Gov ernment.
 INTOLERANCE AND TREASON.
 The saintly murderous brood,
 To Carnage and the Koran given
 Who think through unbelievers' blood
 Lies the directest path to Heaven.
 And of such is the Rev Jacob Trimmer whose declaration of dethronement agains Queen Victoria we briefly referred to yes tardav The Christian clergyman repre