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Today many cities are renewing the fight for honest government over the interests of politicians. In New York, the old story is being retold--Tammany, represented by Hylan and Hearst, against the more disinterested element. In Boston it is the Good Government group, which really stands up for better government, against the doubtful Curley-Pelletier group...
...neighboring column we find that Mayor Hylan has been likened to a saint. At an assembly of widows and orphans in the City Hall the medical adviser of the Board of Child Welfare said: "We all know that St. John the Baptist was red-headed, and now we have another red-headed St. John St. John Hylan." When we read that this is the first of many assemblies of a similar kind that are to be held all over the city, we cannot help being reminded that the election of the next mayor of New York is to be this...
...college, student's ambition is not alone confined to making money; he must make it in a "respectable" profession. Politics is a "dirty" game; therefore he will not enter it. Quite true: it is a "dirty" game, as Messrs. Hylan, Tufts and Pelletier are most conclusively proving. But carefully sidestepping politics will not improve it, nor will it give Socialists and I. W. W.'s any less ground for accusation and discontent. The profession of education is carefully avoided for its unremunerasive nature; the deplorable result of this is obvious...
...British House of Commons has been likened to the trunk of an elephant: It can uproot a tree or pick up a pin. The same might be said of our democratic form of government. In New York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers...
...agree that this performance should not have been allowed. Mayor Hylan's vacillating policy in regard to forbidding its appearance and the evident lack of connection between the police department and the Mayor is highly reprehensible. But the way to stop it is not by smashing windows and throwing bricks. Instead, the machinery provided by law should be set in motion as soon as possible. One or more nights of German opera is infinitely better for the morale of the nation than such a disgraceful disturbance. If the country is to continue being run by laws rather than...