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follow. You will not over look the fact that
interests are not all one way and that there
is a powerful business influence which
wuld not suffer by your permitting fin-
ancial affairs to drift along in their present
listless way. The shrewed always profit at
the expense of the thriftless. I am sorry
you have not seen fit to make some
provision for the transient indigent
burdens with which we are at times affl-
icted. It seems to me that as you have
approved an appropriation from licenses
fines and fees of ten per cent to provide parks
and ten per cent to furnish people with
books, you could with great propriety
the one being an absolute necessity and
the two others luxuries, devote ten per cent
of the amount drained from the City's profits
on the sale of liquors to ridding ourselves
of the victums the traffic had made.
The Council now gets rid the annoy-
ance of broken down drunkards and the
discomfort of refusing bread to the necessities
by sending them to me to use my discretion
which means usually that I am to dispense
charity from my own purse, or apply to
you to meet the demand by a course whose
legality is doubtful. The care of the sick
at the hospital shoudl be provided for
out of this proposed fund.
(signed) Harry White mayor