The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-20
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and | have got to help Armstrong
to find out why the city cannot pur-
chase brick as cheaply as others.
Hence we cannot and must not
quarrel. 4. .AsxH
Aside from this, Billy Cowles is
fighting your battles, and you are
doubling up on me when you enter
the fight.
You seem to be so hurt that you
allow yourself to become one-sided
and claim that | came to you in
the interest of Jack Wilmot.
Il came to you in the case you
mention after the council received
the recommendation of Mr. Teurke
to revoke four saloon licenses for
refusing to obey the state anti
screen law, and in the interest of
public measure, after the council
ignored Mr.. Teurke's recommends
tons and placed the matter on file,
and requested you to see if some
measure could not be evolved to
bring the saloon men together and
make them obey the law so that
they would not be obliged to tear
down plastered walls and perma-
nent fixtures to the detriment Of
their business and at great cost.
You told me that the matter was
not in your hands, but in the hands
of Mr.. Conner, Mr.. Teurke and
Chief Sullivan, but promised that
you would call those gentlemen into
consultation before the day was
over and see what could be done
in the premises and a scheme
worked out in that direction.
isn't this correct, Mr.. Pratt?
"You seem to have the desire to
take me wrong entirely, and why,
I am at loss to know.
my tender of cooperation Of
fered you on your Inauguration day
was spontaneous, honest and sim
cere, and you know it, for it stands
good today, and | am sorry to be
obliged to repeat it to you.
81 am a councilman for the sole
purpose of serving the city, and
cannot keep up a newspaper con-
troversy with you because I have
no equal chance with you in a
controversy of that kind. You get
headliners and leaders and / get
twisted and garbled reports, odium
and personal abuse, and yet you
and l should have a common inter
est. We were both elected by the
people to attend to their business,
and both stand sworn to do this.
IF you pardoned me for giving
you some advice that l thought
might be the means of bringing
the executive and the council closer
together and in good touch, so that
team work might be gotten into
city affairs, | cannot see why you
should now feel sore, boo-hoo and
call names. My open letter to you
was honestly meant and absolutely
sincere. You called me up over the
telephone after you received it and
told me that you appreciated it,
and thanked me for it.
I'm conclusion | might add:
Didn't you stoop little too low in
applying epithets and vile names in
your letter. for if | would think of
IStdlidliOH III a IlhS IUSdSuTc L lear
! might find better ground to stand
on than you have; but it is too far
beneath me to do this.
You are drawing large salary
and | know you want to earn it by
giving the city full valueand plus,
and it is my desire to aid you.
Hence you cannot accomplish any
thing through vexed newspaper
controversy, for l also admit that.
in this direction, you have me
licked.
"Mr. Mayor, come up like man.
Let us all get in and drill. Let
us stop laying politics, Pan Tans
and everything else, and let us
work for the good of our city; for,
in spite of all that has been said
about my business, / rely anyone
to find single instance where my
business has in the slightest inter
fered in the duty l owe the public,
or has ever warped me in the
slightest in any public act. Yours,
etc, J. A. SCHILLER,
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