New-York tribune., 1896-01-14
The News of Brooklyn

% ''lu "yseif agreeing very often political lines
with our citizen Mr.. Mclaughlin Ga laugh but I
man raKe ~ nm to be cearheaded. wise and shrcwd
nan h III matters OF iinance and he has declared that
ne expects consolidation to increase and not re-
Yor, our 3 taNaton. t N think he is right. In New
.bn,'. .Hosio" ~ iiSinS rapidly and they Just
ABOUT taking debt of So 600 900 to sI0i Ooo oo FOR
necessary to pay for it is nenry do WiGh & vi" ne
amount of our funded debt ana the road will he
street-car TO Labrador. (Cheers) We have got To-
i tdSe mat ana II there Is anybody willing place
MS property under the shadow of that avalancbo
ana whistle for IL TO come down all can say is that
,A give them my chance. O.aughter) 1t is said fur
thei ihat the price OF real estate going TO rise
& &9ut doubt It, The price for real estate for resi-
cents depends upon fashion. and YOU cannot change
the course of fashion by changing the name Of a
Wnsulct no more than you can change the course of
population will flow IN way or another is inde-
ieHueht OF any act of a legislature. The only way
make make II attractive and replee with everything that
Drlsntehs peoples homes. 1t is said that we can
consolidation. Well. we got enough before when we
wanted van, II And what guarantee have we that New
OF Brooklyn? During the period OF the civil War
wSm s,n @ 6roohyn M was city of 100000 people spent
SHInuWNVV on our Park improvements. and | should
nke to know if there are any men outside an insane
sts thc Tenderoin district. even Madison square
Would have looked with enthusiasm that cx-
might just as we'll have asked them to have taken
part In building an elevated railroad to Gibraltar
be active in the future for the establishment and
Improvement of our city, Would they agree to tho
park system, which is to be of the finest In tho
country" No, My friends there is a clear Biblical
precedent against selling ones birthrieht for a
mess OF potage. Let us be careful in this case that
We don't sell our brthright and not even get the
pottage Oaughte-)
BROOKLYN CAN PADDLE HER OWN CANOE.
Let us make Brooklyn ourselves as We have done
In the past, with all Its beauties. with its attrac-
tvcness and with all the resources which people
desire who come here. and glory in the work which
1t is permitted us to do. Cheers know 1t is said
sometimes that there Is sentiment appropriate
to the discussion of this But sentiment Is
merely judgment fire. and If judgment IS
hat We should not he incorporated with New
York. then put fire into 1t. and that is sentiment.
There is sentiment concerning home yours and
mire. and ther& IL sentiment concerning cOunirv.
Patriotism stirred is tremendous pattern Let the
financial stand by itself and then let senti-
ment come in. and above all call out OF your
breasts that dastardly sentiment which says ks
met. Il is bound TO come. Bound to come? Yes. II
want Il sufficiently supine. Bui If
sent it, IL Is not more bound to come than that
Albany and Troy on opposite sides Of the river. or
that St Paul and Minneapolis are TO he united
Let the future OF Brooklyn remain in the hands
Of the people Of Brooklyn. That is the keynote of
the whole business Cheers II brooklyn people
desire to have its identity destroyed and its name
effaced and be known hereafter as the sou SOU
east-by-sou district of New-York Ooud laughter
then let il be