The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-13
DOWN WITH THE FALSIFIERS!

The INSCRIPTIONS mendaclty with
which the opposition assails the Ameri-
can party administration is n pheno-
menon of the times. 1t is marvel to
see with what brazen effrontery the
false assumptions are pressed as though
there was a substantial basis OF TACT
TO sustain them, when the fact rs that
those assumptions are altogether men
dacious and groundless.
Take the case of the city tax for
the present year. There has been
persistent coyote-like howl that the
American party made huge increase
in that tax. But the plain, unadorned,
official, easily provable fact is, that the
American party administration made
no increase whatever in the city tax.
1t merely entered upon the rolls the
one mill made necessary by the one
million dollar water bonds which were
voted by the taxpayers In January,
1908, full year before the American
party came into power. That one mill
simply pays the interest on those bonds,
and practically was voted by the tax
PAYERS when they voted the bonds.
ANY administration would have had to
pay that interest. and undoubtedly the
people want it paid. But that was the
sole ground upon which it was charged
that the American party had raised
the rate Of city taxation; and that
very ground proved that the American
party had done nothing of the kind,
Then as TO the ''reckless squan-
dering of public money This has
been repeated so often by the opposi-
tion that some people may believe 1t.
But it is an axiom that il there is no
more money TO spend than there was
before, there can be no more "reck~
less squandering than before. But
tho very basis of the most strenuous
| opposition is that there was no reck<
less squandering under the previous (the
Morris) administration. On the con-
| trarv, the claim is that that was a eau"
tens, prudent administration. In q
way is certainly was cautious and pru.
| dent for it refused 10 pay its bills,
leaving some eighty thousand dollars of
debts for the American municipal ad-
ministraton to meet. 1t was the ne
cessity of paying these large unpaid,
overdue accounts that made an un-
favorable showing for the American
administration the first four months; (;
but when that load was removed, the
! American party accounts ran along
without overplus, and in an economical
manner,
With all the economies and business
like methods Of administration, the
American officials have done moro to
make Of Salt Lake real city than any
other administration ever accomplished
in the same time, 1t made of the Big
Cottonwood conduit a real water car
rier instead of a sieve; ii put the ad
ditionnl sewer work on practical
basis and has vastly extended the
sewer system; it has put in splendid
amount of street-pnving. sidewalks
larger water mains, and Improvement:
in leveling and Strengthening the water
pipe systems of the city.
Every public spirited citizen rejoice'
in the mighty work done so speedily
and so we'll by the American party.
Every well-wisher of Salt Lake de
nounces the falsifiers and maligners wh
would warn away settlers and investor
by frightful, malicious, and mendaciou
} J stories about the high taxes and tn