Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-19

Boston or Oshkosh? They arc not. Voters
everywhere are very much alike. And once
you realize that much you will begin to
understand just what is the matter with
the country.
We were TO have had business admin
istration at City Hall. What we seem to
have is Council with n huddlc Of laCkcys
as its majority. Ii will soon be possible
for even the most absent minded taxpayer
TO know whose lackcys they are. They will
jump through the hoop in broad daylight
before many months are passed. With such
a majority, Dcvclin, Patton. Roper. Won
Tagcn and the other really Cf.rcspccting
Counrilmcn whose courage and dcccncy
should shame their opponents. will be rCla-
lively powcrlcss. II the signs about City
Hall and in Harrisburg mean anything
this honorable minority will be gradually
isolated from now on. They will have the
power Of protest and no more
Old times have returned. And the Nom
bcrs of the political tongs who are return
ing to power with them are in need. They
law hhu lNuu NtHT. IDCN nCNU tue
money. Their clans hunger and thirst for
loot. Criticism and outcries will mean to
them just what criticism and outcres have
meant in the past. That is-nothing
Those who made their beds" said Mayor
Moore after tho jazz palace vote in Council
must now lie in them" IT Mr. Moore
N. 80, 1n;, ;,it
uttCrancc hr might be suspected of a double
meaning. 1t might be supposed that hc was
spcaking Of the voting and taxpaying popu-
lation of Philadelphia
\ deficient scnsc'in these voters and tax
payers of their responsibilities and oppor-
tuntics rather than any moral weakness
apparent in the Council may be the direct
cause of a complete nulliffration Of all tho
promises Of the now city charter.
Taxpayers suits may yet defeat the
scheme for the Brown temple of Justice.
But uulcSs tho majority in the Council can
he shocked into sense of its ugly position
and its ugly example. unless it can be made
to fcol n sense of responsibility and shame.
worse things than Judge Browns plan arc
sure 10 threaten tho welfare and the pocket.
books Of the people before long.
The city charter provided definitely that
all money used for public buildings should
be expended under tho supervision of tho
Department Of Public Works The first
million for the justice palace has been turned
ever {" the county commissioners. The
commissioners do not say explicitly what
they arc going to do with It. 1t was hardly
necessary TO ask them. They will do with
that million what was done with the first
millions appropriated for City Hall. They
will dig bitches through which rising
ntcIy.
Who cracked tho whip and forced the
Councilmcn TO break their pledges at the
first showdown? Wait and sec. Cannot
You hear the glad cries and the sounds of
reunion and rcvClry at Harrisburg?
Tho hungry arc about to feed.
The Maine has been rccrosscd again
unlc>s all rumor> arc misleading. In tho
dives and the dcns arc sounds of jubiIaton
and praise.
Tho people didn't vote for all this. But
McV didri roic against it,
So again it is apparent that any ono
who want, 10 make America safe for dcmoc-
rary must begin not in the high places but
down among the easy going mutitudcs. lie
must begin with the voters.