The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-24

laws framed in pursuance of it," There
is not a party in the territory that
does not recognize the supremacy of
that authority. No party could exist
for any length of time that denied it.
Does the Republican party of Utah
hold it in any small esteem? Does
the Democratic party belittle it in any
way? If the Liberal faction were
bIotted out so that not even its Salt
Lake remnant which is nearly all that
is left of it-ceased to cumber the
ground and remained only as an I'M
pleasant memory, would not the supre-
macy of the Constitution and the laws
passed in pursuance thereof be upheld
as fundamental to Republican govern
ment? Are SO called Liberals any
more devoted to the Constitution than
anybody else? Do they not number
in their crowd more law-breakers
according to numbers than can be
found in any other political organiza-
ton in the territory?
Freedom from secular control of
the Mormon Church might answer as
a cry a few years ago. Now it falls
fiat and excites only derision. What
Liberal is suffering from any such
control? What Republican or Demo-
crat is in need of freedom" from any
such domination? All the rest of the
illusions to that religious body are
mere old time Liberal buncombe,
which everybody but few new COM
ers and ignorant people know are a
waste of words.
"An economical administration of
municipal affairs" is good, coming
from a faction that has plunged the
city into a whirlpool of debt, through
reckless extravaganza and waste of
public money, if not criminal conduct
which according to the Liberal organ
calls for criminal prosecution. And
the same resolutions that talk of econ
omy in municipal affairs endorses the
present city council for it's progress
sive spiritr' We should have great
confidence in such professions with
such a record in full view, should we
not?
For the heavy burdens of taxation
which the Liberals have piled upon
the people, we are told they are to
consider as a compensation the en-
HANGED value of all their property
That is one of the greatest pieces of
impudence in the entire set of resolu-
tons Whose property has been en-
HANGED in value except few real es-
tate spectators who have worked the
municipality in their private interest?
The value of property has declined
ever since the Liberals took possess
ion of this city by gross fraud and cor
ruption. Property is not worth any
thing like as much today as it was on
January LIST, 1890 Taxes have been
piled UP while the value of property
has gone down. These are the pal
pable results of Liberal control of city
affairs.
The climax to the falsehoods and
effrontery of this Liberal convention
is in the intimation that in the union
of citizens to purge the city from Lib
eral iniquities there is a scheme to
sell the city waterworks. Whoever
heard of anybody outside of Liberal
ranks entertaining such proposition?
The report that certain members Of
the city council favored such a move
ment, rendered the taxpayers more
than ever indignant against them. The
attempt to fasten upon the Indepen-
dent movement one of the contem-
plated villainies of Liberal rule, caps
the column of impudent mendacity
formed by these Liberal resolutions.
We hope the taxpayers of this city
will read that document. If they do
not determine to GUST forever a fac
ton that will resort to such means
to retain its grip upon the city, it
will be because they are not sensl-
tive to insult and are ready to bear
further imposition and oppression. We
count on the Liberal declaration as
great aid in swelling the votes that
are to redeem the city forever from
Liberal control.