Evening journal., 1915-05-27

Education twelve thousand five hun
dred. dollars for the purpose OF in
creasing the salaries of the school
teachers in the City OF Wilmington.
"'rhe City Council this year FUR
nished FIVE thousand dollars for the
hospitals Il gave two thousand dol
lars to the Homeopathic, two thous-
and to the Delaware Hospital and one
thousand dollars TO the Physicians
and Surgeons Hospital. And for
what purpose? TO give us some as
surance that when poor and uniortu-
nate person applied for admission TO
those hospitals that they would be
admitted and the records show that
that fvo thousand dollars has been
better spent. possibly than any other
ive thousand dollars that we have
spent during the year. because there
have been dozens of poor people adj
mitted to those hospitals, and treated,
who possibly, might not have been
able to gain admttanco-
1--WE have furnished eleven thous-
and dollars to the Volunteer Firemon,
! to which some of our Democratic
friends objected. We furnished that
TO the Volunteer Firemen of the city
of Wilmington because fireman IN
, this city receives no compensation Tor
] his services. and II he Is injured, II
he should be killed. there is abso-
3 mtely no protection for him at all
! and we felt that it would be no more
J than proper that the city should, IN
some way. aid the organization
which had been formed and place them
on the same footing as the Police Pen
sion Fund. or the School Teachers
Retirement Fund. SO that when a
man became injured, or incapacitatcd
there might be something there with
which TO help him.
During the last winter there was
of course, a great lack of work. Thous-
ands of men were out of work IN this
city. The present City Council fur
nshed seventy thousand dollars toI
, certain work which could be done
during the winter In order TO furnish
employment to men who were not EN-.
ployed. That did not take care ol
I them all by any means, but II Ger
tainly did some good to some man OF
some men: and the seventy-tve thous
and dollars expended was a further
and added improvement In certain sec
tions of the city.
"Bv reason of the lack of work, 81
many people being out of work. th'
City Council this year expended be
tween six and seven thousand dollari
for coal for people in destitute cir
cumstancos, and people who we're on
of work. No one could possibly oh
d.. -. al thnI linz
Last year. for the first time In tn
history of the city OF Wilmington
Mr. White will not entirely agree wit
me-but for tie very first time In th
history of the city of Wilmington, tn
city paid all its obligations, pai
every cent Il owed and il wound u
the year with over eleven thous m
dollars In bank. and did not borro'
one cent. This year, notwithstand
ing the predictions OF the calamit
howlors, which have been goin
around. we are very much afraid W
are going to do the same thing, onl
/ am AFRAID our bank balance tn
year. after paying all our bills. is 50
, ing to be about fifteen or cightee
> Thousand dollars instead of elevc
: thousand dollars. as It was last yea
Il cannot conceive how any man
4. any intelligence. or any conmC
= sense can go out before the public,
! the Democratic candidates are doin
i and try TO make the people of q
! city of Wilmington believe that IN
\ administration has msmanaged q
, affairs of the city of Wilmington;
- view of the fact that for two consecl
tive years the city has done MOI
than il ever has done for the publ
as a whole.
I City Has Paid without Boru)wing.
/ IT has paid all debts and has NJ
o borrowed a single cent