South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-07

chip. with reference 70 municipal affairs as
gurgle Is developing just now. the result Of the
movement non-partisanize city government, is
bound 70 be heard during the next few weeks;
heard repeatedly-indeed. Is being heard already.
The political PRESS, organ Of the party that has
trenched itself. which hopes to remain
cntrcnohed-even preferrng that the opposition
PARTY be given whir than to have its opportunity
cut of for all time-has already begun grinding
propaganda for the curbstone
artists false. misleading induging ali the prerogs
tives that the political hunIbug. above outlined.
IS won't claim. why the resort 10 such exaggera-
ton Misrepresentation, prevarication, and efforts
&c defraud the people?
Take as an example. the claim labor is OF posed
TO the system; the commission manager plan,
rs It is called. How does anyone know? Has labor
been poled2 Some laborers Of course. opposed.
but we also know Of some who are not. Who
conferred upon this organ OF the politicians the
authority 10 speak for labor right off the bat just
as though the workers have minds such
3. might choose to speak for them?
Again. We are told that It will cost $4,000 70
tut over an election the commission manager
plan It isn't within thousand miles Of the truth;
that is. politicians. determined retain
their old political CRAFTS and the misrepresentation
city for their partisan advantage.
sec 1T to SPEND that much to defeat the plan. The
cost 20 the public through on1clal channels, or
holding such an election. cannot possibly exceed
$4,000; probably wouldn't exceed $4,000.
You see the trend and you can no doubt guess
the purpose of It, The two are samples. The pro-
motors of that sort of propaganda figure that by
lying fast enough they can render exposure impos-
aibe taking as it does so much space TO
expose lie than it does to merely make the bald.
unprincipled assertion.
Dayton. Ohio. saith this organ of the politicians
has a bonded debt Of 100000 under it's city
ager government calculating to brighten you into
thinking it something awful but you remember.
perhaps the story of the Dayton flood, and how the
city manager system was adopted to cope with the
awful situation that e left behind Well, Dayton
largely to rebuild herself, reconstruct her pub
lie works and throw around herself protecting
arm, against repetition of that catastrophe. No
wonder she had to go in debt 100000. Under tho
mayor and aIdermanic system she would probably
be in debt $1S,OOO,OOO.
The questioning of Daytons bonded debt Is a
half truth worse than whole lie resorted to with
:akes could be capable, and quite the with
the claim that Kalamazoo. Mich has been voting
the question discarding the city manager sys-
TEN. when nothing Of the kind has been going on.
What Kalamazoo has been voting on has been
amendments to its city charter changing some
thorty vested in the manager, but not striking at
the city manager system in principle at all.
And so we might go on through long list of
untruths and half-truths prevarications misrepre-
sentations insnuations etc, that the opponents of
the city manager plan are using. They may soon
to be known the daily ant-city manager
lie" just used to have the daily German lie
during the war
Figure 1t out. If you can. why PEOPLE, and news
papers. ordinarily self-respectng. will condescend
Tor the sake Of politics, to such unprnciped
American methods; that is unless you belong to the
school that regards rotten politics the most
American thing that have-and the rottencr
thing the more excusable.
We give it up. It shakes our faith in humanity;
that's all.
A few continue firm in their belief that a tariff