The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1894-10-27
OUR MAYOR EXPLAINS.

mayor Pleri mas written an expia-
nation and reply to our article head
| ed "Mayor Pieri Answered." and we
give 1t space as follows with COM
ment proceeding:
Bay st. Louis, Oct. 20, 1894.
Editors of THE SEA CoAsT Echo,
Young Gentlemen and friends:
The columns of this weeks issue Of
your paper are replete with its "Sun-
day suit of interest,"" to me at least,
and fail to see how you could be
miffed at what l wrote as my defense
in he Progress. Re-read my card
and you will then admit that l did
not refer to THE Echo but to the in.
former on whom j took special care
to call public attention by writing,
"Upon information received
do you see how wrong you have act
ed3 Let your reason govern you in
the future and not your impulses, and
you will always be on the right side.
am, at times, too persistent, but
never venemous were I, would not
be practicing that which / always
preach and to end this matter l will
play the "Divine part" and you the
other--'"Tis human to fail, to for.
give Divine"
Now then, II 1t can interest you OF
your readers, I hereto annex the his
tory of our fire company's losses
Last March the insurance policy on
our engine house expired, and as the
rates thereon had Deen increased, the
fact caused quite a debate at one OF
our fire boys meetings and it was
| agreed not to renew the insurance al
the prices asked, and until IL was des.
troyed by fire, a few days ago, the
subject was never thought of. March
il you remember, was before my cleo
tion TO the mayoralty Of this city and
II, with 10000 or more in the treasu.
ry Of the company, up to this present
time. the insurance policy was moi
renewed, / ask who is to blame? Th,
Board OF Mayor and Aldermen Of
this city or the officers of the fire com
pany who were elected to protect ant
further its interests?
The only appeal made to this mu
picipality was for the $44. TO pa,
their road tax and after stating {,
the Board that, l thought it was L
the interest Of the taxpayers &C
grant what was asked, that in the G,
vent of having no fire department,
here, our rates of insurance would
be increased, the matter was put Il
n vote, there being tie, my casting
vote was may" in answer to th'
Taxpayers request that we had NJ
right to appropriate thei- funds Il
purposes of that kind. l am fire
man and always will be and il act
ed as l did, it was for the good rea
son that l thought it my duty to d.
so.
II is plain TO me now that a pub
lie officers path is not strewn witt
roses and my experience up TO thi
time certainly justlfies the saying
regret to have to deny having an,
preference for the Progress. l re
coenize fully the good derived fron
the work of our local press and il
conclusion hope that chickering's
will cease and that with one joint eff
fort the Progress and Echo will
launch the ship that is to carry Ba,
st. Louis to prosperity.
Respectfully,
A. G.. PERI.
We will not attempt to vindicat
ourselves in regard to the proceeding
article, we will simply reproduc
the lines which occasioned our las
weeks article. "Last weeks Ecu,
states"stthe fault is mine and sham
should be my lot" Our mayor say
we were wrong because he specl
fed "information received. Their
seems to be, somewhere in the back
ground, "slight" inconsistency
However, recognizing his commen
dable qualities, his broadness O
mind, his predominating desire to d
good at all times we've will tax
it upon ourselves to play the "Di
vine part"
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