The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-17
DEFAMING THE CITY.

Some OF the cvIl-mmded newspapers
of this city are using their own false
deductions TO the injury of Salt Lake,
They take the figures OF the receipts
and expenditures for four months. dis
tort their meaning. tell lies about the
responsibility for the money paid out,
and then represent this municipality os
on the verge Of ruin, Ono Of these VI
cious falsifiers went to the length yes
terday morning OF representing the
city as In soak at pawnshop; ana
ALI OF the tribe Of yelpers unite III
the howl that the city Is ruined; that
II is not desirable place TO come to,
and that the people are being wronGed
without remedy in the conduct of their
public affairs All this Will have the
effect, In case those who wish TO harm
the city have any influence In caus-
Ing any effect to warn population and
capital TO stay away from here, and to
urgently invite those here now. to go
away
II is most unwholesome outburst,
without the least present cause. The
very things these Jeremiahs are now
lamcnting about arc the absolute re-
suit of the pillage and INSCRIPTIONS
maladministration Of the administra
ton which went out with the old year,
It left warrants OF s247. .621.26 outstand-
Ing to be paid after the 1st Of January.
entoning the holders OF these In many
cases not TO present them until after
that date. although some of them were
issued two months before. 1t left the
payment of S47, ,7071S Of street and
sidewalk work II had done TO be made
by the new administration. 1t put off
paying $4,000 interest on water bonds,
that should have been made in
December. to be met by the new ad-
ministration. And so all along the
line: whenever a payment could be de-
ferred until the. new administration
came in, it was done. The evident pur-
pose was to spend as much as possi-
bic, and at the same time to have as
muck as possible of that expenditure
charged to the Thompson administra-
ton
The calm analysis OF the figures as
presented is reassuring rather than
alarming. 1t exposes the disreputable
tactics of the Morris administration In
the most odious light possible 1T eX-
poses also an evident knowledge Of the
disreputable purpose of the Morrisites
by the paper which puts the city In
pawnshop pillory. and prompt eager
ness on Its part to serve It's master as
1t did when he was In office, and It's
prepared coaching In how to do It, The
whole scheme is noxious villainy
both false In fact and detestable In
spirit
The good people of Salt Lake need
not be In the least alarmed by these
mendacious and rabid attacks upon It's
good standing and fair fame The city
Is all right Its affairs are in good and
competent hands. All is well with the
people, and with the city. Salt Lake
is not under a cloud, but is marching
forward with giant strides to fulfill her
great destiny. 1t is shocking that for
mere political bitterness some of her
own people are willing to appear
against her, and try TO convince the
outside world that 1t is not desirable
to come here: that the city is stunned
and knocked out 1t is all the worse
when political grafters in the midst OF
the city's population Will give the place
a black eye solely to crafty their own
feelings of rage and disappointment,
in defiance alike of fact and of sense.
What Is wanted is to build up and not
tear down. The city is the pride OF
all of its progressive people. and is
doing well, Let not the rawlings OF
falsity and greed disquiet even the
least of its inhabitants