After that we waited, rather impatiently,
it must be confessed, for Whitlock's manuscript.
After the passage of other admonitory
letters and telegrams, we received the following
letter. We print it "instead of an article."
In our opinion, it is an extraordinarily valuable
summary of the whole subject of municipal
misrule. It goes far and beyond Pittsburg,
and deep into economic, social, and
national conditions of which that city is but
an instance and an illustration. And, moreover,
it sets forth just how such an article,
could we find the right man to do it, should
be written. Here it is:
