The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-01-03
SCHEME is A FAILURE.

of Socialist municipal government in |
Wisconsin as a failure, and declaring |
that Seidels administration was
strewn with the wrecks of broken
promises, incompetence and even
worse, David Goldstein of Boston, the |
noted anti-Socialist lecturer who will
give out some interesting literature
on the Socialist question in and about
Milwaukee and says that it was a
complete failure.
Play 1t for All 1t Is Worth.
The Socialists in all sections of
the country have played their admin
istration of Milwaukee to the limit,
and through ignorance of the real
conditions there, many votes have
been won to the Socialist cause, when
as a matter of fact, if persons became
acquainted with the real condition
which existed there under Socialist
domination Socialism would wane
even faster than it has At the first
election at which Seidel defeated for
mer Mayor Rose, the Socialists elect
ed 20 members of the board of alder
men as we'll as securing absolute con-
troll of majority of the municipal Of
Aces, so that their failure cannot by
any means be laid to any cause other
than their own incompetence and in
ability to govern a city.
In the winter following the So
cialists victory the number of unem-
ployed in the city of Milwaukee great
ly outnumbered that during any pre-
vious winter, and this despite the So
cialists' claims that their election was
d a panacea for all the ills of the I'M
employed. One thing for which the
administration was notable was cut
ting down the hours of the working
day for men employed on municipal
work to six hours at corresponding
lower days wage.
rjr Berger and His Blunder.
Berger at that time was an alder
man at large and one of the things
he proposed to do was to build 81
O00, 900 river park for which this i'm
mense sum was to be expended for
the ground alone. He insisted upon
taking an option on the site at this
figure, but the minority forced an in
yestigation. during which it was
found the price Berger proposed to
pay was $25O,000 more than the
property was worth. They proposed
to build an immense terminal station
municipal home and number of
municipal lodging houses as well as
other things, but as matter of fact
y the only permanent improvement Civ
en- to Milwaukee during the Socialist
regime is municipal lavatory and
comfort station. for which $4,000
was spent, and this in the face of the
fact that the Socialist administration
cost the city $1,000, 900 more than
any previous administration.
Buy Right and Left.
=. 1t has been proven that some SAL
600 was actually spent illegally. Fer
instance, the Socialists purchased
mop handles, napkins, paper towels
and incidentals in quantities large
enough to supply the town for in
Unity. The purchased 20 garbage
wagons. which were afterward found
to be too heavy to use and are con-
esquently useless. They could not
even sell the wagons on account Of
their excessive weight.
But the browning achievement of
the Socialist administration and the
thing which brought matters to a
head was the paving system they in
augurated. A school teacher was
made director of public works and he
appointed a man named Mullan as
the paving expert. On the city pave
ment Mullan claimed he was saving
the city $450,000 by his method. In
laying the paving Mullan omitted
what contractors term the binding
coat and he also dispensed with the
customary five-year guarantee. His
method did get the paving for the
city at cost $450.000 less than a
first class job would have cost, but
as result the paving lasted less than
nine months, at the end of which one
could reach down and take up the
paving material by the handfuls.
People Are Aroused.
The result of such things as this
caused people to become dissatisfied
with Socialism, and at the late cleo
ton they were overwhelmingly de-
feated at the polls. In this defeat
even Berger the Socialist congress-
man, was participant, being defeat
ed by majority of over 10000 votes