WHY COW LAW SHOULD NOT BE PASSED. 1. For on luckless bovin that teals a oabbage or an apple from a careleaa grocer, or opens th latehless gate of so improvident oilizen, there ar butidrada of respectable eows that anietly brows on onr back streats without molesting anyone. 2. A aow that bahavaa badly eaa be abated like any other nuisance.

When there is such a plain rtaort, would it b wis to punish th inno cent in ordar to suppress the guilty? Thi is ai ti-republioan. 8. Th complaint against marauding; stock comes from those who bavt no Interest in them. The weilare of a whole city is not to be sacrificed for a oabbage. If the driven of country wagons go off and leave their teams and wagons exposrd contrary 10 an xpreas law ol the city can they justly invoke the creation of another law to protect tham in their lawlessness ; Or if a grocer persist in blocking th idewalk with oratea of cabbages where loud scent attracts a foraging animal, is it not just one of the risks which he take in putting it there T 4 The back streets covered with Ber muda grass is th only valnahl free bold of th city.

This is open to any family that keeps a cow. To cut off thi 'reshold which bas exiattd front time immemorial would be equiva lent to levying a heavy tax upon a portion of our citizens least able to bear it. Many a poor widow, strug gling to support a family of fatherleaa children, fnda iu thi her greatest source of support. 5. Hundreds of dollars annually were lost to the city by the passage of th hog law.

There are heaps ol garbage in our back streets which those scavengers removtd, and which the town cart dot not reach. The children yet pine for these delightful spare-rib and tenderloin which their mother prepared, and now it is proposed to take the milk away from the babte and sucklings. The law means less of milk to tht poor, and to the rich it means that diseased milk which comes from confining stock in pens and feeding them on artificial food. 6. Apart from any sanitary or local consideration, however, it ia impolitic and unslatearuaiilike to destroy values, Ia town without pay-rolls, without industries and struggling for bare x istence, it is not best to sacrifice too much to style.

We have had too mue.h nf that. ,.