The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-09
WHAT THE LIBERALS HAVE DONE.

The city tax will be nearly three times
greater, in amount, this year tnan it was
last year.
For every dollar paid last year there |
will be over two dollars and half paid |
this year.
That is the difference in cost between
Liberal supremacy and Uhe rule of the |
PEOPLES party, as was predicted IN the |
Peoples declaration that Liberal supre-
macy means official extravaganza and ex-
cessive taxation.
And what is there to show that any
advantages have occurred 60 the tax-paying
public, by reason of the 5riblirg of the cost
ofcity government!
Well, there is this sidewalk paving, but
this is paid for by special assessment
of taxes over and above the increased
general tax.
Then there is the street sprinkling. but
this also is paid for by special tax over
and above the general tax.
There is the city and comfy building,
the money for which was in the treasury
to the amount of nearly quarter of a
million when the Liberals came into power,
but it is not built yet and people are won
derirg why not
There is the blowing down of the roads
and the canal digging along the sidewalks,
which is called, through the country to
the party that is responsible for it grad
ing the Streets OF this work. inquirers
are recommended to ask MIR. BAsKIN's
opinion.
Then there is the doubled expense of all
city affairs, without any noticeable i'm
provement in any branch of the public
service.
Sc much She Liberals have done; but
they have tried to do worse things. They
attempted to bargain sway to a stock COM
pany the exclusive right to sell the water
that supplies the city, and were prevented
from doing so only by the prompt and
united action of the astonished citizens.
They attempted to have the beautiful
Liberty park turned into race track and
the burst of popular Indignation again
thwarted their monumental folly.
They have laid new water mains, but
have not increased the water supply, eX-
cept by continuation of the well boring at
Liberty park, and this they mad ridiculed
without limit before election, as childish
and absurd attempt to get water
They have inaugurated no change ex-
cepting the change from economy to ex-
sravagance in public expenditures. The
city council seems always ready to listen to
some scheme for spending money; there
seems to be no check to its voting away the
peoples money except, indeed, by running
out of funds. There are always found
plenty of men who are eager to advise that
30 many thousand be spent on this project
and so many thousand on that, and the
council seems eager to adopt their recon
mendations. Only few men in the council
seem to have any independence or conser-
vatism in this respect
Six months of Liberal rule: real ate de
preciatcd at least twenty five per cent. /;
taxes increased two hundred and fifty per
cent; no free water but threat of bond
age to stock company for the precious
fiud; the well filed treasury depleted
none but rank Liberals employe in the
vast army in the pay of the city from The
chief of police down to the grave digger
members of the city council fighting witt
bare fists on the floor of the council cham
Der; street railway franchises taken away
from the company that has furnished tn,
city at enormous cost with one of the bes
street car systems in the world; franchise
given 10 unknown companies in preference
that had never invested dollar in this cit,
or territory; hydrants bought from eastern
in preference to home. companies; Sal
Lake work given to Omaha workmen; tn
chief Liberal organ calling members OF tn
council dishonest men," and 'sboodlers,
all form scene from the contemplation Of
which, patriotism might well desire TO lif
itself. '''Tis true, It's pity; and pity It's
tits true"