Baltimore Evening Sun (7 August 1912): 6.
{illustration} Court Circular
Padgette Palace, Aug. 6.
His Majesty’s Address from the Throne was heard by the members of the Narrenhaus and Bundesrat last evening. An amendment to the Reply to the Address was movd by Mr. Binswanger, K. C., Leader of the Opposition. The Right Hon. Jack O’ Meara, speaking from the ministerial bench, opposed the amendment, and it was lost on a Division by a vote of 15 to 5. The members of the two Houses thereupon ordered the Address to be inscribed upon their journals and pledged their humble duty and loyalty to His Majesty.
The Right Hon. Jecobus Hook, K. T., Grand Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Feather, kissed hands on the departure for the Continent. He carries letters from His Majesty to the Sovereigns of Europe. The Hon. Daniel Joseph Loden, Master of the Jobhounds, was received in audience and presented important matters of State to the consideration of His Majesty. Capt. the Hon. John J. Mahon, Jr., is in attendance upon His Majesty as Aide-de-Camp.
AH, THE FLATTERER!
[The super-Mahon to the jobhounds.]
The Sun and The Evening Sun, the latter of which is only distinguished from the former by being more scurrilous. * * *
The Hon. the super-Mahon on The Evening Sun’s effort to reduce the typhoid death rate in Baltimore:
statements as to the alleged bad water, and the alleged prevalence of typhoid fever, and alleged high death rate * * *
Dr. William H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, to the Social Service Club January 16. 1912:
We still lead in deaths from typhoid.
From the estimable Hot Towel of November 19, 1910:
Dr. C. Hampton Jones, Assistant Commissioner of Health, said that the outbreak of typhoid fever * * * was due to the water supply * * *
Dr. Marshall L. Price, secretary of the State Board of Health, June 14, 1911:
The polluted condition of the water supply of Baltimore places the city in danger of an epidemic which might give from 25,000 to 30,000 persons the disease. * * * Baltimore’s water supply is terribly polluted and the pollution places the life of every person drinking the city water in danger. The Gunpowder is far from free from pollution, while the water from the Jones’ falls supply is totally unfit to drink * * *
Dr. James Bosley, commissioner of health, in a contumacious appendix to the super-Mahon’s message, August 5, 1912:
The opinion that the condition of our water is * * * accountable for a good portion of our typhoid is well founded.
The same gentleman in the same embaraselug appendix:
We know that there are many sources of the fever, the principal ones of which are: FIRST, water * * *
The same gentleman to the people of Baltimore:
Boil your drinking water!
The cost of boomiferous denials and “patriotic” slobber-gobble in 18 years:
| Deaths from | Probable | |||||
| typhoid in | Cases | actual No. | ||||
| Year. | Baltimore. | reported. | of cases. | |||
| 1894 | 222 | no report | 2,200 | |||
| 1895 | 173 | 260 | 1,730 | |||
| 1896 | 188 | 472 | 1,880 | |||
| 1897 | 189 | 363 | 1,890 | |||
| 1898 | 189 | 545 | 1,890 | |||
| 1899 | 153 | 462 | 1,530 | |||
| 1900 | 189 | 871 | 1,890 | |||
| 1901 | 141 | 792 | 1,410 | |||
| 1902 | 220 | 1,086 | 2,200 | |||
| 1903 | 189 | 768 | 1,890 | |||
| 1904 | 199 | 916 | 1,990 | |||
| 1905 | 197 | 1,109 | 1,970 | |||
| 1906 | 183 | 1,215 | 1,830 | |||
| 1907 | 230 | 1,417 | 2,300 | |||
| 1908 | 180 | 1,426 | 1,800 | |||
| 1909 | 136 | 1,069 | 1,360 | |||
| 1910 | 235 | 1,891 | 2,350 | |||
| 1911 | 154 | * | 1,540 | |||
| T’ls: | 3,387 | 14,572 | 33,870 |
*Exact figures not yet published.
THE SUPER-MAHONIC CODE. ---- [From the super-Mahon’s message to the job-hounds.] Philadelphia has a series of special assessments. She even makes up annual municipal deficiencies by issuing special bonds in order to keep down the “apparent” [tax] rate. She presents, therefore, on the surface a very low rate. * * Very true, the taxpayers, of Philadelphia have to pay substantially more than their tax rate indicates. * * * BUT THAT DOESN’T ALTER THE VALUE OF THE POLICY.
In other words, give the suckers the bunk they crave. In order to get the tax rate down, lay on special assessments. The taxpayer is an ass. He can’t count above 9. Put the rollers under him!
Above all, let us imitate Philadelphia—the capital and paradise of old-fashioned politics! There is our pattern, our model, our mentor!
Affecting tribute to the Right Hon. Jacobus Hook, K. T., by the Hon. Alexander Geddes, poet laureate to H. I. M., the super-Mahon:
Good-by! and may it not be so.
Just for awhile trom you and me.
To sail where “Jake” may care to go,
Across the stormy, deep blue sea.
We’ll miss him while he’s fir away,
That heart to every one so true,
And wait again that coming day
When he’ll return to me and you.
O, memories dear, we know the heart;
And may kind Fate protect him there.
A man of love in every part,
Whom all “the fellows” term most dear.
Poet Alexander Geddes.
Aug. 6, 1912.
Them ex-sheriffs get almost as much in interest money as what the judges get vacation money.
From the Hon. the super-Mahon’s great message to the jobhounds:
In comparing the public-spirited attitude of the Republican papers—the American and the Star—with the course of Grasty the effect upon our civic life is easily apparent.
And it was especially apparent, dear fellow, on the night of July 2, 1912. And again on the morning of July 18, when the Board of Awards done that dirty trick.
Boil your drinking water! Chase the rat! Watch out for Burns!
The super-Mahon: the political joy-rider par excellence.