The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-22
WEARISeME.

The HERALD confesses to a sense of
"wearinessn over the talk of certain
papers and certain men concerning what
they call progress" It has tend
ency to make one tired to read the twaddle
of some jackanapes scribbler who has never
paid dollar of taxes in the town, who
hasn't dollar invested in the CITY, who
spends here only the pauper pay which he
receives weekly for spelling white paper
we say it is tiresome to read the TRADES of
such fellows against men who have made
this city what it is and who spend more
money in permanent improvements every
year than the life time earnings of the
tramp Bohemians amount to. tits fatiguing
and disgusting as well. TO be told that men
are not progressive" because they
do not sac ton every scheme de
vised by reckless, incompetent
and extravagant city council for squander-
ing the peoples money or giving away the
peoples property. IF these carpers had
sense enough to avoid making themselves
ridiculous. they might look about them
and see what the men they call obstruction
lists have done and are doing, and would
about progress have done or are likely to
Go. Ask who own the best and most costly
buildings, residences, banks, hotels. stores
and Office blocks in this city and you will
learn that they are the very men who are
opposed to the peculiar progress adocated
by cheap scribblers. Inquire who have
paid the taxes and made the improvements
in Salt Lake and be told that they are the
ones who do not stand in with the irrespon-
sible gang now in control of the corporation
government
It is not progressive to increase the
taxes $50 per cent. and spend the money re-
warding an army of Office holders for ques-
tionable work performed at the pollss
There is nothing progressive in city gov
ernment's confession that It has expended
million dollars Of the peoples money for
which it cannot point to one permanent i'm
provepent. 1t is not progressive to give a
public park worth half million dollars to
q money lender and real estate Spectator
who has never spent a dollarin the city for
an Improvement and who is himself hired
man for concern which thinks so little of
the town that it does business in a rented
building. 1t is not progressive to spend
$4,000 Of the peoples money digging hole
IN the ground and then abandon the hole and
the 1900. 1t is not progressive for a
city council to talk thirteen months
about paved sidewalks without causing a
foot of pavement to be laid. The walk on
South Temple street was ordered and the
assessment levied by the old council which
has since been spoken of as "mossbacks."
1t is not progressive to turn the council
chamber into prize ring where members
indulge in the sport Of knocking each other
down. 1t is not progressive for the city
council TO defy nine tenths of the taxpay-
ers. and in their mad recklessness deliber-
ately go contrary to the advice of the cor
poration's council. 1t is not progressive to
saddle upon the city debt which makes
high taxes perpetual in order to pay the
interest In short, it is not progressive for
great and growing city to take the advice
4 of tramps. impecunious scribblers and pen