The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-02-25
A CURIOUS C2ITTER.

4 funny critter is the average alder
man. Like the frIskv flea, you never
know wheE You have him; Ill fact, we
doubt # he knows where he is at him
self half his time. He changes his mind
contradicts himself. turns his back on
has past, does such strange and I'M
thought of things that most people
Houid think that he had wheels, or was
sort of weather cock, aud went which
ever way the wiud blows In this re-
rpect our aldermen, with few eXCep-
IioEs. are fairly up to the average. We
never know what thew will do from
what they say. Tickle as the winds,
shifty as the sands. they CITRATE and os-
cllatc and wObble and wisgle az IDEAS
strike them or, rather, az other peoples
Ideas strike them. Now il is one thing,
Aon 1t is another, but nothing is done.
The light question has ever been cause
Of contention. The people were being
robbed, and the robbers were to be
made 10 cease their unjust exactions
but the robbery still goes on. The water
question is another bone Of contention
hlch las inspired our aldermen to
bursts of oratory picturlns the sutferInss
Of our people, and calling for redress
but the bone Is still in evidence, the
water Is as impure as ever, and il looks
as II 1t Wouid continue impure, Tor all
our council can do, or will do. Every
U1M and hen Iera il IA rry fnr retr,p,b
ment, but rs often AS it is raised lust as
niteu do the aldermen who clamor for
1t vote contrary TO their preaching, as
they did few DAYS ago when they
voted to inCre 3se the salaries of city en-
ployees though it Was stated bv a
member Of the finance committee that
unless something was done the CITY
would 90 into bankruptcy. Now our
city SOlons are wrestling with the pass
question, just to be III the fashion. For
Years, 1t seems, the soulless corporation
kuoTn IA the Superior Rapid Transit
Company has been giving passes to aid
ernlen, city officials. firemen, policemen
and others, and 1t has at last occurred
10 them that 1t is wrong that those who
receive should receive and that those
who give should give. The horrId sus-
pIcion has occurred to them that the
rasse5 given to aldermen and officials
may have tendency TO corrupt, to lead
them astrav, to warp the intellccts, of
the aforesaid individuals. We do not
know whether this is the case or not
We would not venture to hint that il is
because we do not believe that there
ever has been a member Of our council,
ar have We one now. who would sell
las lhtluenc for a street railway pass
We have better opinion Of our alder
men than they would seem to have OF
themselves. They are their own &C.
,users, and they have come 10 the con-
'Iuslon-thoush they have not all voted
that way yet-that it would be better,
III order 10 avoid suspicion, that alder
nIen should paJ their fares in future or
take shank . mare. No one VIII object
10 this If they do not-nOt even the
Rapid Transit company. 1t will increase
'''Sti * 'th tut o'HIe " udtj anu every NIUE
helps these hard times The city viii
gain nothing. Aldermen V Ill still be. if
thel are now, purchasable commodi-
tee. or all the silly, Improbable. agi-
tauons, this anti-street railway pass
a<alon il the most silly. The add
crman lad better devote their time
and energies 10 the consideration of
the important questions concerning the
city upon the intelligent solution of
which 50 much depends. A truce to
humbug; the people are tired OF bc;n:
hunb2--sI.