Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-03
WHIT THE CITIZENS SAY.
some ISeltinent Remarks winch
tho Peoples Party Are lee
SpOnsfble For.

We invite all good citizens to examine the
water sect, orsect of corruption, running east
from the Deseret Bank to the Theatre on
First South street, and then vote the Peo-
pies ticket and assist by your vote to return
the same to Office who are responsible toi
such an outrage-if yoat scont 1t continued.
Doesn't it sound childish to hear our City
Marshal say: II can't stop the gambling;
81 can't convict the unlawful whisky sell
ers," ETC.! Why, one good man, too honest
to be bought, too brave to be feared, could
in three months regulate and compel by his
authority the proper observance OF all the
laws this little town has ever passed,
| We ask all candid thinking voters What
would be thought of a business man who
| kept around him corps of workmen COM
pairing with the force of officers employed
by this city? What would be thought OF a
business house working large capltal VINO
would allow filth and disease, breeding pes
thence, to accumulate under his counters, III
his cellars, and back yards Would you
vote for him for your Mayor, City Marshal
or lawmaker? Would you buy stock in his
institution, or advise your country and for
eign friends to visit him
We ask all honest people If this city Is not
conducted badly, and, If so, whether tney
Will return the same crew, or any IKE them,
to the same offices, or make an attempt at
least to improve upon it
The Peoples party. through their organ,
the Herald, tell the ridiculous story that IL
is not feasible to sewer Salt Lake City, whlle
any child who has ever been outside OF TINS
city can see that it has the most natural ad-
vantages possible for the purpose. Surely the
lazy health officers of this corporation are
guilty of manslaughter in permitting the
fostering nuisances everywhere before their
eyes. If the back yards of property on Main
street were searched hundreds of reeking
cesspools full to overlooking with contagious
filth could be uncovered. If they can't find
such health destroyers, plenty of others can,
and will show them few that will answer
them for emetics the remainder of their nat
ural lives.
Do the police of this city know that there
are a dozen or more professional street.
walkers practicing on the streets every
night? or don't they want to know 1t! Any
wide-awake man is bound to find it out if
he walks around the business streets be-
tween 9 and II o'clock at night. Is it a
''whim'' of the Marshars to permit it, or is
he such weakling that he cannot put a
stop to it?
Are all the filth nuisances abated? One
would think so, as We never hear of prose-
cution. The Peoples party are evidently
bcAllSlltu Will ILelI very OluCtIS, VI
they would want cleaner set sent out on
trial.
The Herald is bought body and soul to
defend the present city officers, and will find
an ercuSe for any objectionable or outrage
Gus act they may be guilty of. If the Her.
aid was honest 1t never would have made
the silly, childish assertion that it was not
practicable to construct sewerage system
in this city. It was instructed to advance
this claim, and apparently the Mayor and
Council received their education or inspira-
ton from the Herdid.s
1t would be money in pocket to every tax
payer of this city if they were to send their
Mayor and Council to college for year or
two and give them course in political
economy. They might perhaps learn that
what they now claim they cannot do or can
not afford to do, are the very things they
of necessity ought to do, cannot afford to
have undone, and would increase their CAPT
tai by doing. l refer now to the waterworks
extension, the sewerage system, free public
baths, and thorough renovation and disin-
fectlng of the filthy streets and alleys.
The police captain has been requested so
often by the business men around Goddess
corner to abate the nuisance of loafing
crowds i'll that vicinity, that they are dis.
gusted and tired of trying to obtain their
protection and begin to think the loafers are
pets of the police and not to be interfered
with.