The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-16

s.s1zzVSA unanimous vote tc
recommend favorably the adoption OF
Wiscomb's resolution providing for an
appropriation of $4,000 toward the Pho
neer Jubilee.
The proposition met with some OPP
position, but those who raised their
voices against the appropriation were
few, and somehow when the vote was
go on record as opposing the celebra-
ton of such an event as the coming of
the pioneers.
The members of the council present
were Diehl, who made an excellent pre-
siding officer; Lloyd, LIE Prohon, Rom
ney, Buckle, Newell, Hayward, Morris,
Allen and WiScomb When the proper
time came Wiscomb moved that the
committee recommend favorably on
| the appropriation of $3, 000 and the dis
| cusSion was opened.
SPELLBINDER COLBORN.
Judge Colborn was invited to address
the body and did so in his usual easy
and brilliant style. He pictured the
! Importance of the event, spoke of the
work already accomplished, and urged
as matter of pride on business and
patriotic grounds that the city do its
share toward assisting in making the
! celebration a success.
The state of Wisconsin next year
will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of it's admission into the Union. For
this occasion the city of Milwaukee
alone has pledged $400, 900. In Tennes-
see they hold a celebration this year
and [ cannot tell you how much money
will be spent, but their affair will rank
second or third to anything that has
! ever been given. The city of Denver
spent S37. 600 last summer to make the
Festival of Mountain and Plain a sue
cess. Why? Because it brings returns
such as Will not come in any other
way.
WHAT PIONEER DAY MEANS.
Pioneer day means? Do you ever con-
slider that that immortal band first
planted civilization in the west and
that when their weary feet first trod
the soil of this magnificent valley, Cal
ifornia was still under Mexican terri
tory? Now if other states spend hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in ceie-
brdting trifiing events, should not the
state of Utah do something on this
occasion that will rivet the attention
If the world? II it is right for the state
II is proper for Salt Lake. for it is in
this city that the result of the enter
prise and perseverance of the pioneers
are reflected"
Concluding, Judge Colburn said the
commission had intended to asz for an
appropriation of $4,000, but now that
the matter had been voluntarily taken
up and the amount fixed at $1,000, he
hoped it would not be reduced.
J. Wash Young was next called upon
and spoke briefly of the work of the
finance committee, which had labored
earnestly during the past three months
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the celebration of a magnitude COM
mensurate with the event
Councilman Wiscomb then spoke
briefly in favor of making the appro-
priation, which he considered small
enough.
PIONEER ROMNEY OPPOSES IT.
Then up rose Romney, and everybody
knew what was coming.
Now | want to tell you, gentlemen
he began. that | am pretty near a
pioneer myself, and I have some right
to talk. l have been here for II years
l am in favor of helping the commits
sion, but l know great many pioneers
in this city who are being sold out of
house and home on account of high
taxes. Gentlemen, our treasury is
empty, or it will be soon. | am in
favor of the jubilee. but let us be con-
sistent. Taxes in this city are so high
today that nobody will come here.
own property on Main street and |
know that the way to bring capital here
is to reduce the taxes. The poor are
being taxed too high. l am connected
with great many institutions in this
city, and we are asked to subscribe to-
ward the jubilee. / tell you it is hard
on the poor people
Lloyd said jubilee funds should be
used for jubilee purposes only. He
proposed to watch and guard over the
city's exchequer and advised his fellow
members TO do the same.
WISCOMB URGES IT.
LAS long as this calamity howl is
kept up we will have city here a cen
fury behind the times" began Wis !
comb, directing a reply at Romney. In |
order to sell real estate You have to |
create demand, and the only way to |
here that have money. A celebration
will bring half a million dollars TO our
city Who will be benefited? All ,
classes of people. The poor people ara
not the ones to complain about high |
taxes. It's these men who own prop |
erty on Main street. Bring money into /
the city and the poor and the rich will .
have more with which to pay their !
taxes next year
LIE Prohon made a vigorous talk in
favor of the appropriation. He re-
ferred TO Denver as city built by ad- I
The city of Pueblo is ia
vCred with a better natural location,
but because its people believed in TAX
ing care of what they had and keep
ing everybody else out, Denver enter
prise won in the end.
ENDORSED BY BUCKLE.
Buckle said Salt Lake might consider
to advantage the statement sometimes
found near the headline of a newspa-
per: Advertise or bust" He believed
money spent for judicious advertising
was well spent.
BUT ONE NEGATIVE VOTE.
A vote was then taken, and Council
man Allen was the only one to go on
record in opposition. Mr. Allen later
On moved that the city attorney be
requested to prepare an opinion as to
making such an appropriation. He
thought the whole business illegal
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
Before the jubilee appropriation mat
-er was taken up, a delegation of
Christian Endeavorers appeared before I
he committee and asked that the
council take steps in assisting to en-
ertain the 5000 or 10000 Christian En-
ieavorers who will stop over in this
,ity on their way TO the national con-
-ention in San Francisco next month
Addresses were made by DR.. Silver
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