The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-19
BROKEN PROMISES.

OF its nte-eection promises the people
have not discovered which one. About a
year ago the party was decidedly lavish
with promises and it continued in that Law
ishness up to the day of election. Itprom-
ised economy in the government, and kept
its word by more than doubling the salary
list before the party had been in power a
month. 1t not only increased the pay of
existing offices, but created many new Of
fees with which to reward men who had
been active in the campaign. THE HERALD
asserted that the election of the Liberal
candidates would be followed by great
increase in taxation, and for saying this
this paper was bitterly assalled by Liberal
ORGANS and strikers, and the promise was
made that the taxes would not be made
burdensome. How well this promise was
kept, everybody who owns property is
fully advised. The assessment roll was
multiplied by four on an average, the taxes
being increased about three hundred and
fifty per cent. Property-owners were
stricken with CONSERVATION. Seventy-ive
per cent, of them openly protested against
the extortion and requested that the rate
or the valuation be reduced The remain
ing % per cent, would have protested if
they had had the faintest idea that their
protest would have been needed. They
seemed to know the council and the party,
and therefore saved themselves the trouble
of asking justice.
To-day there are hundreds of poor men,
most of them mechanics and laborers, who
are borrowing money with which to sat
isfy the collector at the end of this month.
The Liberals promised that there should
be improvements, and not one has been
made. Many thousands of dollars have
been appropriated to the street account
and the streets all summer long have been
rough, rutty and rocky, and are now, at
the commencement of winter in such de
plorable condition that teamsters stand
aghasts when they think of the next few
months of mud and mire. For years the
Liberals have found fault with the roads
and now that they claim to have expended
on them ten dollars for every one which the
previous administrations have felt justified
in expanding in a similar period, the street:
, are worse than ever before since this was
city.
One of the promises most frequently
made and boosted about most, wa!
that guarantee of "free water" Tn,
, monthly appropriations to the waterwork
, account are astounding to those who beal
in mind the economic and conservative ad
, ministrstions of the past. But the water
has not been increased drop. No stream
has been purchased, no spring has been OBJ
tanned! Instead of the water being mad
i free the rate has been increased to consum
ers, the waterworks being made sourc
: of considerable revenue to the corporation
= The free water'i promise, like all the 9th
ers, was made to be broken, for the part
: knew it could not be kept, and like all tn
. others it has been broken.
The promise that was put forth to infu
: ence the vote of the laboring class, wa
: that of ''Salt Lake work for Salt LAX
y workmen." 1t has been made good by dis
eliminating against Salt Lake workme
and in favor of strangers.
v 1t was promised that public work an
? supplies should be by contract This ha
= never been done Favorites have bee
/ employed without regard to the cost, an
n material has been purchased fro1
r others than the lowest bidders. A
S the last meeting of the council tn
q proposition to carry out the Liberal promis
t, in regard to letting contracts TO the loves
If bidders was unblushingly voted down.
" The inauguration of the Liberal counc
which was to have been one of progres
and improvement. was at once followed b
the stoppage of work on the public buildin
which the old council had ordered erecte
- and to pay for which it left the money i
- the treasury. 1t has many times bee
=, limited that the discontinuance of work G
n this structure was due to the fact that tt
10 building was not located in the vicinity
W the real property of a certain clique whic
:. is influential in the Liberal party, The
A 1t has been intimated that the work h;
= not gone on because the plans were draw
" by an architect not in sympathy with Il
es Liberal organization. Whatever the reaso
IA for the delay nothing has been done, II
ID money has been spent, the treasury
"a empty, considerable deficit exists and tt
q immense excavation at the corner of Fir
lie South and First East streets stands as
err monument to broken Liberal promise
in The going ahead with that. building wou
have encouraged others to invest, and be.
to the incentive to the expenditure of tho
n. sands of dollars for Improvement in Il
en- vicinity of the public structure.
er All the Liberal promises made previo
to to the election may be recounted and it w
81 be found that not one of them has be-
u. kept. There have been bad faith and q
OF fault as to every one. There have, ho'