STREET LOAN POLL.

Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 9

STREET LOAN POLL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,- —Now that all the excitement of the past two days is over, during which quite a considerable amount of public money has been spent, it is to be hoped , that the borrowing enthusiasts of the City Council will give serious reflection to their general policy. Surely such an overmhelming setback at the poll may be taken as a vote of no-confidenoe in those advocates of borrowing and spending whose majorities at council meetings are continuously held by “ party ” voting methods, and in their general policy. One may safely assume that a very great number of those wlio voted against the council’s proposal *. were people who. helped to invest the council with so-called new blood, because there are certainly not 7,000 business men and capitalists on the city’s rating roll. I will undertake to say that if the proposed housing loan were submitted to the ballot it would share the same fate. It is to be hoped that at the forthcoming election of councillors the public will _ reflect with extreme care before voting along “ party ” or “ class ” lines, andT so avoid the methods of would-be dictators who adorn our present council table.—l am, etc., L. James. April 23.