The Nome daily nugget., 1913-03-29

AAON any hou WlLn OTOlndry com mon sense or with the nerve to sit in a council could produce such pueriIe twaddle passes comprehension. Why, positively. the inanity of 1t is pitis- ble. To opose men who could get out such infantile rot is just like taking candy from babies.
 One can hardly waste much space to speak about 1t. but few remarks will expose the puerility.
 The Gilmore council is shown to have spent from 1911 to 1912 the sum of $l4,0OO more than the preceding council without doing thing for it and the present council answers back by saying they built streets last sum mer which is a different year alto gether. Besides, they seem to forget that the property holders paid for the planking and that what they did not pay was taken from the funds of the year 1912 to 1919. /
 This is only one example of their evasion and childish running away from the facts. It Is better call 1t childish; the only other adjective would be "cowardly."
 In one dreath they boast of pay ing high wages while in the next they say they employed the same number of policemen at less expense. Can you beat that for logic?
 Where they show their want of manliness and fairness is when they say they reduced the Nuggets print ing privileges from IS cents to 31-2 cents. Why, the Nugget did not have the printing last year and this year this paper secured the printing by charging less than the council was paying another paper. This means nothing less than that the Nugget was the one to reduce the price.
 Some four years ago the Gold Dig ger. not the Nugget. charged a price of Is cents per line and when teh Gold Digger suspended publication the Nugget took up the printing at the same money. The Nugget has never put in a bid for 15 cents a line but as the Nugget was the only daily paper published here at the time it naturally fell heir to the price charg- ad hS v1onar
 But, why does the council boast of paying high wages in one place and boast in two other places of cutting down wages? Why do they not go further and boast that they hire Capt. Beveridge at one dollar a day? Why do they not boast of cutting down the bills for groceries or freighting or, any other of the things In which members of the council are personally interest ed? They boast of establishing a city relief fund.
 Before this boast the immortal and brazen carcass of the Pharisee must turn in it's grave and his soul must feel the very fires of hell mock him as a fallen example of gall and hy- pocrisy. The letter a in gall should be changed to to get the proper sound. Of course. they might with some reason boast that they took half the responsibility for spending the money from the hospital. But Soapy Smith could do that and really did do something of the kind once. To have money to give out Is useful for vote getting.
 reduced the fire pumping contract $40. The city Is saved.
 "They made traveHng safe fin tne streets"
 "They have furnished the Nome school board the money"
 If in all your literature, dear read CT. you have encountered any more perfect exemplification of the mean ing of that delightful word asininity than is contained in those last two quotations, for heavens sake produce it-and- -you-wilI- -ge-dewn-te- -posterity1 as the most brilliant exponent of per- feet English that ever existed. It is grand, 1t is sublime-but, what's the use?
 The men who could produce such arguments must stand so securely entrenched behind the impregnable rocks of their own dense conceit that a whole battery of reasoning would fail miserably to remove the smallest