It Is Reported The Electric Light Is To Be

removed írom the oity. The councü will make a great mistake if they allow these ligbts to be removed froin the streets. It would be a step backward. Our business men, and nearly everybody in the city, is in favor ot retaining the light if possible. It is a common remark of strangere and traveling men that thero is not a city in the country whose business streeets are so well lighted as ours. If the council will secure the lightintr of the gasoline lamps at a reasonable price - say ten dollars a lamp, instead of fiftoen dollars and sixty cents whioh we have been paying- this, with the saving the city is making on gas by having the pólice do the lighting, would enable the council to keep at least tweuty electric lights without increasing the total cost of lighting the city over what it has been for several years past. ■ i m What has beconie of that great 'prohibition party, and especially the prohibititionists ? We havo not heard anything of the party, or even the sonorions 1 01 u's of a prohibition orator, since the election. Has the money given out ? Or what is the reason that the land no longer resounds with the noise of such ohaste and aisinterested zealots as Conway, Frazer and Miller ? The poor prohibitionists are indeed in a bad way. The republicans swear that prohibitionists beat Blaine by voting against him, and they are equally certain that the prohibitionists beat Cooley by voting for him ! So, whether they vote against the republican party or for it, they are sure to be made the scape-goate of republican disaster and the victims of republican malice. We dislike to volunteer advice, but we are tempted to say to our prohibition friends, renounce and forever give up the narrow and silly idea that you have a moral right and that it ie your duty to make anybody eat and drink just what you like, and think just what you think, and hereafter be reasonable, sensible and patriotic men, and vote the straight democratie ticket, in the interest of honest government and civil service reform. That is fully as much as this generation will beableto accomplish.