The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-30


The salvation army Of Brennan, Lin
game d Co., sometimes overshouts it.
self. In fact it is nothing if not frantic.
From the time when few scheming
representatives of class Of people who
are not credit to the city conceived
the idea that a combined attack of mis-
representation and untruth might lead
many people to rally about them and
thus help them to gain their private
ends, the control of the city and subse-
quently the election of man who in
no way but through such methods could
gain support, to the United States senate,
these people through the medium of a
paper, secured with these very ends in
view, have heaped abuse on the best cit
izens and most reputable and respected
business men in the city. There has
not been public man, save one
or two perhaps, who were spared for per-
sonal reasons, who has not been target
for all the charges which virulent ami
mostly could conceive.
The paper hated McNally and saw in
Smith model man for chief executive
of the city. The mayor was not ready
to make the sacrifices necessary to retain
the newspapers good will. In fact he
very emphatically stated that he had no
respect for it in the light of after cleo
ton events. From that moment the
TRADE began and the people know how
shamefully it has been kept going. Not
withstanding the fact that the sickly-
sensational trumpery fell fiat, fresh
stories We're invented and the paper
came up again with face of brass.
Hundreds of the most respectable peo-
pie in the city have refused to allow it
on their premises and a man who
bought bottle of beer refused to allow
it to be wrapped in copy Of that pub
lication.
There was time when by methods
we'll known the paper had one man in
the City Hall under its thumb and it
made the most of it. II lost that man
and when his successor was appointed
was ready to attack him, but could not
find the slightest pretext nntil munich
pal campaign came on in which the most
INSCRIPTIONS methods were thought by
its pushers to be necessary. Then the
ever-ready howl arose.
Now the paper throws mud at body
of the best business men in the city,
who are determined to save the people
from disgrace, because these gentlemen
presume to rally to the support of men
whom it hates because it has grown
from day to day more malignant from
its failure to gain recognition among
the sensible or thoughtful.
Nobodys home is safe from its inva-
sions, and nobody is safe from its abuse.
1t comes into the midst of one of the
most respectable and enlightened COM
munities in the country and sets itself
up rs the only true and pure, the only
virtuous and honest thing there is to be
found there.
And what is it? After all its abuse
of the mayor, it comes out with the
following;
The mayor is not responsible for the
creation of this debt, nor for the previous
slow rate OF increase of the sinking
fund.
In the first place it has been shown in
these columns repeatedly that the city
debt is in admirable condition for pay
ment, and that the water rates alone
will very much more than pay the inter-
est on the loan and leave the balance to
be transferred to some other account if
need be.
In the second place the mayor, by
its own statement, is not in any
way responsible for the debt. These
same statements are true of all the city
debt.
Now, does not anyone know that the
keenest bankers in New England would
not take our loan at remarkably good
figures if the conditions for prompt pay
ment were not satisfactory? The paper
has directly charged the mayor with the
| lOi dii thV ivy ttbb WIZ
tracted within the last few years and
now it comes out and denies 1t all.
1t proceeds:
| He is responsible for the neglect 10 bring
| this perilous condition of the water loan TO the
] attention of the City Council and for neglect
| 20 inaugurate some active measures for its
| relief He Is responsible for the ignoring of
| the condition of the loan in a double sense !:
| AS mayor and as chairman of the City Council
| committee on city debt.
The committee on city debt at its
last meeting considered all those
matters carefully with the Democratic
city treasurer in consultation and found
the whole business in most admirable
condition.
Now. if body of business men so
able as the committee on city debt. with
the able city treasurer, who is known to
be a man of the most sterling integrity
and a representative of a class of society
which knows vindictive abuse from
/ t~nth did NOT find any reason for com