The sun., 1897-11-17

MRS Mack Thorn did it. Thorn will swear Mrs. Mack
did it, The jury will decide they both did it.
GHOSTS able knock estate values The high
est bid OH the Riddle property s1ooand why did one bid
higher?
THE report that Quay Martin and Magee to hold
conference understanding with another and
select Gubenaoa candidate sounds good deal like the news
of the Deamater days.-The Bulletin
That takes something than sound principe make
municipal ownership of gas plant railway public
work successful in America the chief lesson of the lease of the
Philadelphia plant to private corporation for thirty
For fortyree the City of Brohery
the experiment of owning and operating gas plant only
to this lame and mpotent conclusion last The vitality of the
theory has been proved by its long survival oe
OF corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS politicians Over the grave
cipa ownership Philadelphia may be written Not dead
but sleeping Put to sleep by politics. Will again at the
hrst blast of municipal honesty" During this experiment in
municipal ownership the price of has dropped from S. per
1000 feet to ST. But this be credited to municipal
ownership as there has been propoonate decline in
the price of gas manufactured by private corporations 1t
did however, profit to the city, But from the first
the management of the Philadelphia gas plant has been danger
and scandal to the city, has been the of all
political Jbblng knavey and conspraces 1t has defed
stream Of civic politics beyond anything the grant
or lease the franchise to private parties And this has
ced honest citizens to the lease the granting of which
over advantageous bids has been the bng an ex
pertinent prosecuted amid such malignant Influences es-
mated that during the thirty years the present lease will
net the city s3625ooo Meantime the price gas grad
uay reduced from 81 IS per 1000 is probable
that Philadelphia will have better gas purer politics as result
OF this DEAL But cheap gas pure politics might
have under municipal ownership the gas plant combination
with municipal honesty There be successful municipal
ownership of plants railways without municipal
honesty.
TO THE dwee in cites i'll small ows the reason for
the PostaserGenea recommendation postal savings banks
will scarcely be apparent Comparatively few residents of the
densey populated States of the East banking in
tuition OF probable ovency, but III the great farming regions of
the West and South the situation is wholly different. The stock
ing and the loose brick under the fireplace purposes of
depositar, with robbery frequent resultant and withdrawal
OF money from circulation accomplishment The
extent to which private enterprise manifested banks has fallen
short Of meeting the needs of the people for the facilities of ex-
change is according PostmaseGc Gary shown conc-
svy by the operations of the money order Offices During the
current year than $4,000 transactions made in these
Offices and passed through them 10 the poor
man the money order office is the substitute for bank wien money
is to be sent 1t expensive substitute for the cost of
such exchange high Moreover money order department
not neuenty used depostary for small
again, Tor the depoo instead of getting interest," is conpeed to
for the acceptance of his deposit That many are willing so to
40 shows the force of the public demand for postal savings SYSTEM
The question OF the profitable investment of the funds deposited
Mr. Gary dspoes OF i'll rather apda manner. would have
them invested in Government buildings that the rent which
the Government pays to landlords might go interest to the
depos1tors The paid to-day he estimates at ooo
which, all the expense Of operating postal savings banks
were borne by appropriations of public funds would pay per cert
on deposits of Soooooooo The figures which the Postmaster
General gives of the business done by banks in foreign cou
tries shows how inadequate such income would be- In So5
france d per cent on deposits of Sl4oooooo and Great
Britain 2 per cent OH deposits of There every
reason to believe that within the first year deposits in the United
States would exceed This however, is only detail
though perhaps the most important the
erals plan In its spirit the plan is its purpose commend
able But with the Government i'll the hands of the party which
is given abec servtude of and corporations if
likely that anything will be done interfere with the business of
banks, express companies, and landlords ?The Journal