Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1910-03-26

the answer. EVery department.
Of the city's government is more
or less completely in the hands
Of an INSCRIPTIONS gang of poll
ticians, who are plundering the
city in all directions, robbing
hospitals. schools, insane asylums,
poor houses and civic offices Of
every description. Contracts
for millions of public improve
ments-often of needless kind
are in defiance Of law, commonly
let to the highest bidder-always
the favored gang contractors
and the Courts have hitherto
sanctioned the outrage. The
grossest dishonesty and ineffi
cheney, mark many of the depart
ments Of the public service. For
years unrebuked crime has held
carnival in the City Of Brotherly
Love. Ballot box stuffng and
repeating, both done with official
cognizance and approval, have
become exact sciences, and the
contempt of law that found It's
violent popular expression in the
stoning and des truction OF hum
dreds of cars etc., has long had
its official exemplars in its inso.
lent mayor, its thugging police,
It's tyrannical magistrates and a
corrupt and gang,subservient
city council.
A little while ago a regularly
organized policemen's burglar
club was exposed-not by the
authorities-and six policemen in
one bunch sent to Jail.
The Railway Traction Co., is
but another branch of the whole
sale graft which curses the city.
A bribed city council gave to the
company for nothing streetfran-
chise for which Mr.. Wanamaker
offered to pay 100000, which
sum he admitted was but nomi.
nal part of it's true value. There
upon the gang that is exploiting
the entire citp, formed a scheme
to unite all the trolley lines
in one company and add to
their true value many millions of
"water." After selling these
millions of "Watered" stock to the
gullible general public, the sche-
mers found themselves forced,
in order to make dividends on
the water" to rob the travel
ing public on the one hand and
their employees on the other.
Then by a series of long con.
tinued outrages upon the rights
Of the citizens, eliminating in the
company's perfidious violation OF
it's solemn contract with the city
not to raise the rate of fares,
it has caused.itself to be hated by
vast majority of its patrons.
Conscious, too, that its Ubiquitous
course both with its men and with
the city, would not bear examina-
ton before any impartial tribunal,
the company has stubbornly re-
fused all offers at arbitration
made by its employees and the
public. Like the insolent coal
barons in the great strike Of
1902, when Delaware's distin-
guished son Judge George
Gray got much merited honor in
his role of peacemaker, they have
utterly refused any and all at
tempts at securing a peaceful
solution of the terrible difficulty.
Unfortunately for the miser =
able city a contemplate puppet
tool of the gang is Mayor. A
man in that Office would have
forced the company to arbitrate
as President Roosevelt did the in.
solent coal operators, and as did
the Mayor of Trenton a few days
ago, when he settled in forty
eight hours a strike there which
was equally portentious. But
alas sheer madness rules the
hour in P Philadelphia; all business
is paralized, and the loss already
fallen upon every branch of its
commerce and affairs, is one
which will require years to re.
coup. That city has, moreover
to wear the stigma of the shame.
full vandalism of its mcbs (which
it's spineless mayor should have
quelled in one day with gatling
gun grape.