Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-20
ADVANTAGES. DISADVANTAGES.

lures attractive to home-seekers, IL
tine The people here are cougenial
and sociabie. The climate is much bet
ter than that enjoyed in some other
sections OF the country The school
system is developed TO n high degree
Of perfection. Visitors who pass
through here. taking observations, do
not fall to notice these and many other
advantages.
But the City Will not grow as rapidly
as II could do, until some of the dlsad-
yantages under which it has been
placed are removed. Real estate men
may try ever SO hard to create boom
and the public may assist them With
ever SO much enthusiasm; II Is up
hin work until the remedy is found for
the evils that can be removed The
united efforts OF all good citizens will
be- needed for this,
The evil of INSTRUMENTATION is one
OF the most crying ones. There Is no
doubt that the public funds of the city
during the first year of the present adj
mlnistration were sluandered so reck-
lessly that at the beginning OF this
year an enormous deficit had been cre-
ated which has never yet been salts
iaotorlS accounted Wr' NOT tneie
any aoupt 'hat the greater part vi
Tue 'i'ys income LOT u'is S','i h"u
oceh speh. III advance at the eno Oh
the first six months of the year. The
prospect Is mat me deot VIII ne s'ii'
more increased ana tnen ioisted upon
the next administration.
IL should be evident TO all that, un-
III the city is Nueemed from sne
wreckers, home-seekers VIII not stay
here In considerable numbers. They
are not looking for communities that
are loaded down with debts; they are
not looking for charitable opportuni-
ties of helping to pull them out of the
nllre- What attracts them is the cer-
tainty that their taxes are reasonable
and that every cent they pay into the
public treasury is honestly used for
some honest purpose.
The necessity OF honest city govern
ment makes Il incumbent upon every
citizen who has the interest OF the
community at heart, to cooperate with
other conservative citizens for the cleo
tion OF honest administrators Of public
AFFAIRS. And such cannot be found
among the gang whose motto is, and
has always been, rule or ruin
Another evil that must receive due
attention of the citizens Is the Haunt
ing of vice OF all kinds in the face
Of the public. We are not clamoring
without reason against the existence
OF vice, for we realize the lamentable
fact that even the best regulated com
munity will have its problems to grap-
pie with. But when we notice that the
very business center of the City is
thickly dotted with saloons. and that
the streeta all around them are crowd
ed with men that reek of tobacco
smoke and whisky perfume. and who
sometimes are not very choice in their
language: when we notice that parts
OF the very center OF the business dis
tfict are devoted to the unmeution-
able deeds of darkness. and that fire.
quently the poor beings that make
living out of lust ply their
trade in the streets, when It Is ayi-
dent that the officers of the law do
not even make an effort to regulate
the evils that are everv,vhere recoe.
nized as stains ON orr civilization. we
cannot but ask the question wbe,bar
this neglect does NOT drive n, a,x homo
seekers away. There Is no Doubt
about this salt Lake civ 60 nd
vancinr hut slowly ITS nro,rass
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