MUNICIPAL SIR ORACLES.

Evening Star, Issue 11696, 30 September 1902, Page 5

MUNICIPAL SIR ORACLES.

TO THE KDItOB. our ToWn Councils and ! othei public bodies suffer from the overtalkativeness of a few of their members. As a general rule, there are very few exceptions indeed These loquacious members are men of little weight; they are ignorant and self-assertive, and. having no sense rf their own unimportance, never hesitate to impose themselves upon their colleagues nnd the public in season and out of season. The nuisance is no new one; it probably began to make itself apparent a generation or two after the expusion from the Garden of fcden. But of late years the enormous increase of public business has given boundless chances to the wordy man, and if some" effective means of restraint be not found our political, ecclesiastical, and municipal machinery will be in danger of coming to a dead stop, rhere ought to be adopted a code of regulations for the restraint and suppression of municipal chatterboxes." Pray, do not imagine that the above has ! - a ? y P? rt , onal 6f loG °f reference. Nothing of tthe kind. Ifc is. merely a comment of the y Scotsman' (August 16, 1902) on his owa,\

Town: Council's proceedings. Verb, sap.-—I am, etc., Scot. September 30.