The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-29
"NEVADA, OLD AND NEW AS
SEEN BY c. c. GOODWIN

will be found. We will go there; We
viii cease thinking about thousands.
Henceforth we will deal with nothing
less than millions.
Inspiration for the New.
"After that, hardship was but a joke
and their souls rose superior TO the
stress. They learned to mine, they
learned to reduce ore, they made
code and established order. They ex-
allied mining by paying fair wages and
establishing regular paydays- fney put
safety cages in the mines and ventilat-
ed the hot drifts with compressed air.
In one mine they sent down five tons
of ice per day for years to supply the
men with ice water. They lifted mining
from, an experiment to u science. All
the time they kept their hearts open.
No cry of distress ever went unheeded.
.srhere were great mines there. great
LAWYERS. great doctors. great men OF
affairs and with means at their COM
mand they wrought miracles. Nearly
all are gone now. Their graves are
widely scattered but their work shines
out i'm fair structures in many states
and in cables under the sea. The best
that San Francisco was i'm her glory
came from Nevada and they were a
high and true race. Their manhood
was stamped on the state and ought TO
supply the new race there with inspi-
ration
Nowhere does the subject matter
feel the touch of one responsible for
The outcome Not only this, but the
common experience is that member
of a BODY of fifteen viii always allow
matters To go through which would
never e.eiVe his vote could 80 respon-
sibiity be brought right home to him.
Then there is another difficulty where
a large body is attempting TO trans
act business: there is always the in
clination for speech making. II Is re-
rlarkable the number of orators that
bud AMI blossom in small legislative
bodies. - 80 go. 81
Not a Political Move.
This movement for a change in the
form of our city government is not pc
litical in its nature; nor is it an at
tack or a reflection upon any city Of
| ficials, past or present.
1.-THE aggregate salaries of our mayor
and fifteen councilmen wouid pay three
| commissioners $4,000 a year each. They
| should be in session at least five aft
ernoons and two evenings in each week.
Being themselves personally response
! BILE for the weil-being of the city, they
will have a pride in making a good
record. They should, of course, be
elected at large, each one representing
| the entire city.
81 do not claim that such . system
viii take the government entirely ont
of politics. At FIRST the machinery Of
the two leading parties will likely be
uFed for the election VI the commits
siou but gradually here as in Calves
/ ten. the issues viii be narrowed down
between the most moral, intelligent and
progressive citizenship upon one side,
and those who fatten upon the in
| firmities OF mankind upon the other;
and when that line is drawn, The right
always prevails. In national affairs
we can stand considerable eXtrava-
gance and waste-it does not get right
home to us-but in our city the ques-
| ton of right administration of nunic-
| ipaI affairs becomes question of pros
perity health, comfort and even of
life and death.
Opportunity Is Here.
salt Lake City is a great business
corporation. Its annual revenues and
expenditures run into the millions. THE
citizens are the Stockholders. When
these citizens are stockholders in other
business corporations. he success oil
failure simply affects their pockets
As stockholders in a municipal corpora
ton, the administration of it's affairs
involves not only the bank account OF
the individual, but the moral. intel
lectual and physical weIl-pe;E.g OF him
self and family
salt Lake City has been largely In
the public eye. We have not deserved
ali of the unfavoTable notices we have
received; but however that may be. WI
have had more than our share Of trial
tribulation and humiliation. It is with
in our power 20 buiiG W. here a city
government which shall be an example
to the rest Of The United States. We
can have IL l. We want it. AMI ! nope
that all present. will give this n;attei
the thought and consideration WI I'm s.
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