The Greenville times., 1902-08-30
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4 Nihe word, municipal, v
| it means ii Town in Italy governed
by it, own laws, or in other
words free town, which has
been anglicized from the Latin
word "municipalis," and ramifed
into, First, pertaining to corpo-
ration, or city; and secondly,
pertaining to Sta.e, Kingdom or
Nation; according to the de6ni :
tion given by Blackstone, it means
rule of civil conduct prescribed
by the supreme power in a state,
and Bouvier's definition states
that this word applies only to
what belongs to city.
The great State of Mississippi
says that the mayor, aldermen
and marshal shall be elected by
the people, the other officers by
the mayor and board of aldermen.
This, of course, is in conformity
with the state laws, otherwise, il
would not have been recorded on
the statute books by that enlight-
ened body Of law makers. Now,
let US examine, impartially, fairly
and without bias, how far these
laws relating to municipalities are
obeyed by our present city eoun-
Gil.
When God Almighty in His
omnipotent power, created. the
world, He thereby implied | am
Lord, Master, ana Ruler of this
earth; those who obey my man /
dates shall be rewarded, and those
who disobey them shall be pun
ished according to the Nervousness
of their offences. From this, we
infer that the Creator is Lord of
the created;a the created may
rebel, as satan rebeiled againsthis
Master, but as satan was relegated
lntog-k very hot place, named
.'H-," let us sincerely hope and
pray that our city council shall
not be asked by those who created
them to 60 to such a torrid place
as the one mentioned above, du-
ring such hot weather as this; and
and in view of the fact that there
are no railroads to convey ice to
that particular point. 1t is con-
ceded that the majority rules;
that being 50, how then can our
present CITY council account for
their action in refusing to grant
unto the majority who were petit
tioners-requesting them to put
the city under the new code Of
1892. Il
Are these six men who -consti-
tute the council, greater benefit
than a majority of the voters? ?
Are they greater than the State
of Mississippi9 Ii they defy the
state laws by not following and
practicing its intuitlons and pur-
poses; if they disohey the wishes
of majority of the people, and
iaunt the flag of defiance in their
faces, then they are rebels to the
state laws, violators of their
oaths, untrue to the people who
elected them, and should be hurl-
ed headlong out of office, irrespec-
tive of consequences. Let the
people rise in their might and
teach these four or five little
Punch and Judy emulators that
the majority rules, that when they
went around begging for votes,
asking their friends to support
them friends that they are now
deceiving-it was not intended
that they should be placed in Of
flee for the purpose Of insulting
and disregarding the wishes of the
majority; and to add outrage to
insult, one of their body went
around in the capacity of a solic-
itor, inducing and lnviegling those
whom he could best command, to
sign a counter petition; this tam
pering with the free will of the
people by a member of that body
deserves the most scathing cen
sure, and units the perpetrator
of it for even the low position of
q scavenger; such mountebank
performances as this is a disg race
10 the dignity of a city, and is
more in keeping with the actions
If an organ grinder and his mon
Key. Let us quote part of an ex-
ract from Ram Alley" which
S entirely appropriate to the
ioregolng paragraph: