PANNAFFORD'S LATEST.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 137, 28 April 1883, Page 83

PANNAFFORD'S LATEST.

.:. ii-j ':i|,; : 'ii d>es not bear a procreative signification, gentle reader. It merely implies the very commonplace fact of the matrimonial agent's appearance in print as a special pleader. On this occasion he lifts up his voice in affected indignation at the conduct of the City Council in refusing to bear the liabilities of certain defaulting contractors by paying their workmen. Happily the municipal representations of the people are not so chuckle-headed as to allow mistaken sympathy to prompt them to any such expenditure, otherwise the precedent once established, contractors would find it highly convenient to shift this portion of their expenses upon the shoulders of a lachrymose and too' impressionable Council. T.B.H. would be about the last man to see matters in such a charitable light, if having engaged a contractor to build him a house upon which large progress payment had been made, he suddenly found himself entreated by the workmen to discharge arrears of wages that their master had " diddled " them out of. However, he must not be judged too harshly. He writes according to order in the way of business. That will account for the idiotic conclusion. "If poor working men are. thus left entirely at the mercy of dishonest city contractors the time will come when no man will perform civic work." Workmen have a cheap and easy remedy at law against public as well as private contractors, and they will find it far more efficacious for their purposes than vicarious letter-writing designed to work upon the charity of a corporate body.