Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-14
SOCIALISTS FAIL ID MAKE
 GOOD IN MILWAUKEE TEST

MILwAUKEE. Wis. March 1s.- After having proposed more than hundred ways in which Milwaukee ans are to be uphfted the Milwaukee Socialists have spent a year in do- ing practically nothing The ideal istic projects loundly announced have failed to msterialize. only a few having even reached beyond the ask ing of legislation approval There are now forty-five socialistie meas ures in the state legislature, author iZing the Socialists to establish vari- ous utilities. from city ice factories to city trolley system, and if the legislature does not pass these meas ures the Socialists will be able to say that the old parties prevented the consummation of their projects for city betterment. If the legis- lature pass these measures the So cialists will be able to do little be cause the city is already loaded with bonds to the legal limit
 The great successes @ date of the socialist administration can be sum med up in the following
 The municipal Sunday afternoon concert is attracting about 1000 per sons each week. and the city is losing s100 a week maintaining the pleasure places.
 The old Board of Commissioners Public Works has been abandoned with its three S2.5O0 members. One Commissioner named at @ salary of S5.00o takes their place. Opponents of the Socialists say this was ex tTEvagance. for the present commis sioner was able to earn only s1,50C as teacher in a trade school be fore being elevated by his comrades to the better paid position
 Toe experts that have been secured 10 handle various city departents and hat are doing the routine work as we'll as has been done in the past are all Socialists, instead Of being non-partisan appointees as promised
 The city street department has dis covered extensive frauds in the build ing of city sewers. clay being uset 10 making concrete instead of sand The contractors have been forced tC rebuild the sewers as a result
 The city street iRborers have beer organized into a union. 70 be ahil lated with the federated trades coun cil.
 The city administration has been able to purchass at 9 price of les. than s1,000.000 property worth easill double that price for public work
 The administration unquestionabl, has the support O fthe best mora elements of the city The Protestan church people are strongly with thu administration. having taken up ,ht Socialists to overthrow the old Ros' administration which was charge, with being permeated with eztrava gance if not actual graft, and to th, church people the Socialists owe il large gart their success. The com plaint now arises that the admins tration is trying to do so man things, scattered over such a wid field, from establishing municipality owned factories to providing home for workingmen, that there is noth ing actually being accomplished.
 The charge is made that the cit payroll has been increased S11S,00 year since the Socialists too charge. The socialist answer is tha the increase in pay of all city labor CTS to s2 a day is justified by tn high cost of living. due to the cap tlists The expectation that taxes 1911 will be 50 per cent higher tha his year is justified by the socialis his year is justified by the sociali statement that to pay highe sum and get something for it, il