Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-10
MAYOR TALKS PLAINLY
Head Of Gloucester, Mass, StlfS up
the Folks.


Graft That Has Well Nigh Ruined
city-Peopie All Over the Country
Have Been, Victims.
= 81 am busy conducting the city's
business Any talk Of my resigning is
ridiculous. There were $500 people
who voted for me, and they are still
actively supporting me-"
ta Such was the comment OF Mayor
Percy w. Wheeler when asked il he
would adopt the suggestion contained
in resolution passed at a mass meet
), ing attended by 1000 citizens, many. of
: whom were peeved at references made
by the mayor in his inaugural address
to the fishing industry in the city, as
well as arrangements made for the in
ternational Fishermen's Cup races at
Halifax last fall, says a Gloucester,
Mass, dispatch to the New York
World.
1t was said that 1900 of those who
attended the mass meeting assented to
the resolution, but the women ere OPP
posed to it. They recalled that in the
same address the mayor had said:
t.The time has come when the women
must be recognized in our body poll
+ tic. It has been freely said that the
women of Gloucester elected me. Very
well; l am proud of it, and / hope to
make them proud of it, too.
"And I will add that there are some
Offices in city hall that would be better
run if the lady assistants were the
heads and the heads the assista nts.
The organization of women in this
! city, predict, will do more for the adj
vancement Of our city and the clean
! ing of our politics than a dozen boards
7 of trade orchambers Of commerce.
Eyes, / am a woman's mayor, and
am proud Of it, and thank them one
and all for their support, and will
turn around and help one of them. to
be mayor If you men don't fight clean
or than some of you do now" ..,
penounces Board Of Trade.
The mayor declared that the Glou-
cester Board Of Trade has been con-
versant forty years with conditions on
! the Gloucester water front, and had
seen many honest men go. down to H.
& nancial ruin, "and others not so hon
est survive. The function Of the board
of trade during that time has been to
get together each weekday at 10
o'clock and AK the price to be paid the
fishermen, without consulting the fish,
ermen at all, simply consult their own
INTERESTS clear violation OF good
business policy and of the Sherman
antitrust law. ,
This board Of trade has so neglect
led and mismanaged the fishing indus
try that where we once had 500 fishing
vessels there are today less than 100.
It's quarters should be known as The
Den of the Forty Thieves
Painted Pollock as Salmon.
IT am going to tell you how this was
brought about. l have seen harbor
pollock split across the back and
branded and shipped as mackerel. and
hake salted and branded as sea trout,
kits of mackereI with bottle of whis-
ky in the center shipped to Maine, and
. shore herring SO lean that they would
not grease a frying pan sold as fat
Labrador bloaters. Shore pollock has
. been split down the back, salted and
painted pink, and sold as ocean sal
mon.
, "I have seen conditions so bad N
the conduct of the business that, SOME
!, years ago minister preached on the
! topic, Can a Man Be a Fish Dealer
and Be a Christian Perhaps they
! can remember what became Of the
minister-he had to leave town; but
! now they send for him when one of
these men die"
Gloucester must build UP It's repu-
. .tation by selling good fish for what
they are, the mayor declared, adding
, that he had seen fish packed as good
! fish which were so rotten that the
! flesh dropped off the bodies when men
came to split them. And this kind of
fish has been returned by the carload
. and rebranded and sent of again. "You
cannot build city on a foundation OF
Grl,