Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-12-28

The people should remember in read
ing the sanguine statements of
the Health Department that the
death columns appearing daily in the
morning and evening newspapers are
the longest ever known in this city.
and that scarlatina. typhoid fever and
diphtheria are epidemic in this city and
have been for the past ten years.
Under those circumstances one Is
forced to admire the nerve of the
Boozcrs' Union in claiming that this
town is the hcalthicst in the world.
1t may be for some things.
Microbes and maggots for instance.
But not for the people.
However IL is Il gallant effort on the
part Of the Boozcrs' Union to make the
best of bad job.
So we finish this notice with the
concluding lines of the famous old bal.
lad above alluded to:
-Four and twenty microbes
Baked in u pie
Served with Lizard jujobes
Make u lovely lie.
Mayor Harrison says that he Is the
only Mayor who gives no time to his
private business. He is the only
Mayor who has no private business to
attend to.
Gum Drops Gunther left the State
of Illinois and took up arms against It,
The Eagle admires the Southern Sol
diers, who. from a sense of duty.
fought for the States i'm which they
were born. But Il has no sort of re-
spect for n man who receives every
kind of business and personal encour-
agement from State like Illinois and
then goes ont of 1t TO fight his neigh
bors. Wherever there is a fight that
Illinois Is interested In The Eagle Is
with Illinois and 1t has no sort of
patience with an administration
which rewards traitor of the Gum
Drops Gunther type with a sinecure
netting him $4,000 year.
The poor policemen who are out ut
all hours of the night and In all kinds
of weather, deserve $1,000 per year at
least. Think of the Mayor getting
$4,000 for seven short months
year.
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Dr. Emil q. 1Iirsch. the eminent
Jewish divine says Mayor Harrison
does not know what organized charity
Is. DR.. IIirsch is right. The City
Hall Lizard is better judge of or
ganized appetite.
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The State Board of Equalization has
determined to request the Attorney
General to defend It In the mandamus
suit brought against II the other day
by the City of Chicago and Carter II.
Harrison. This Is n step in the right
direction. and In another column the
Eagle gives many good reasons for
taking this view of the situation. The
State Board will undoubtedly win out
and incidentally give the Lizard Of
the City Hall n deserved rap on the
head.
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Justice Walter j. Gibbons Is one of
the men most talked of just now for
the Democratic nomination for Judge.
Mr.. Gibbons would be u tower of
strength to the ticket, and IL elected.
would be n useful member of the ju-
dietary.
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L. McIIugh will undoubtedly be one
of the selections for the judiciary In
the next Democratic County conven'
tlon. His nomination would mean an
election beyond all question Of doubt.
Mr.. Thomas Lynch, the well.knOwn
capitalist and business man, made hun
dreds of homes happy on Christmas
eve by his generous distribution OF tur'
keys and other seasonnble and welcome
Christmas presents. Mr. Lynch IL n
man whose name Is respected every.
where In this community, and who
makes the world the better for his hav.
ing lived In It,
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Spencer Ward will be nominated on
the Democratic judicial ticket. His Sc
lection would be about the wisest thing
the Democratic party could, do In the
fall campaign.
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Charles 8. Deneen Is still suffering
from symptoms of appendicitis, and
may yet have to undergo an operation.
His many friends ana all who admire
an honest and efficient public official
sincerely hope he will come safely
through the ordeal.
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Raise the firemen's salaries.
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Raise the policemen's salaries.
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The Mayors salary is too high for
seven months work. Cut 1t in two.
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Make Gum Drops Gunthcr pay over
that interest.
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Chlcago's brave firemen are the poor
| est paid liremcn in the world