The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-02
AVERT TIE DANGER.

1t is an earnest honest appeal which
The HERALD ma es to the citizens of Salt
Lake to support the Democratic ticket at
the polls next Monday. We make this
appeal less as partisan than in the in
terest of good government 1t is the
welfare OF Salt Lake city we have at
heart more than the comforting of honor
or Office upon men. The city is threatened
with dire disaster, and all its friends
should combine to prevent the misfortune.
Two years ago Salt Lake was lively and
prosperous. Every body was busy: every
body had something to do; every body was
making money. immigration was extraor-
binary, people coming in by hundreds.
! bringing with them money, brains and a
spirit Of enterprise. 1t looked as if the CITY
would make rapid strides in the matter of
progress and development. The future
was cleaning with bright hope. An cleo
ton was held, and the Liberal party's can
didates for Office were successful Those
men had been vouched for by the party or
gans and leaders as the very best men in
the party for the places they were to fill.
Never before had such praise been be-
slowed upon individuals, all of whom were
lauded for their honesty, their ability,
their uprightness, their progressiveness,
and so on. The new administration was
| inaugurated two years ago this month, at
the iveliest ana most prosperous period in
the city's history. There was an overflow
ing treasury, more than quarter of a mil
lion dollars being turned over to the new
government.
And what has been the sequel? The
story from that day to the present is black
! indeed for the administration and the party
which placed it in power. The incumbents
had not been in Office long enough to get
1.-The run of things" before an industrial and
commercial decline set in. Within three
months the bottom had fallen out of the
real estate market, the sales falling from
millions month to few thousands. The
very first acts of the administration were
of nature TO destroy the confidence of the
public and that confidence has never been
restored. II was not three months
after the election before the mem
bers of the council who had beer
certified to as the most worthy men in town
were being denounced as bcodlers by those
who had given them certificates of gooc
character. After having destroyed the
real estate market by turning back anc
driving out investors, the Liberal admins
tration multiplied the inflction by increas.
ing the general taxes about 400 per cent.
meantime further distressing property
owners whom it had deprived of the priv.
ilege Of selling their land by heavy assess
ments for local improvements. Added t
the other evils came an influx of thieves
robbers, burglars, and footpads, invited
hither by the lax administration of the Law
against their class. Our own industriou
workingmen were denied employment, ant
men were imported TO labor on publ
works, the ultimate object being the con
troll of their votes on election days. Fo
two long years the community has lived fl
terror after nightfall For tw
J years, honest, trustworthy working
men have walked the street
In idleneas for weeks at a time, willis
strangers have been drawing money regu
larly from the city treasury The take
have been increased to such an extent tina
all have found it difficult to satisfy tn