The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-26
ITS RITTER PILL.

The regular organ of The Mormon
church, the Deseret News, came TO the
front last night making many wry
| faces over what it claimed to be the
bitter pill which The Tribune has made
it swallow. 1t affects to be suspicious
of what it calls "the praise of the So
called American administration con-
tanned in our showing of the excellent
progress making in the public work
and betterment Of this city. The News
affects TO look upon this as merely the
sugar designed to coat "bitter pill'
which it suspects is being prepared in
the report of the Supervisor of Streets,
and it harks back to what it claims
TO be sugary article in this paper
which preceded the publication of the
oity reports last winter, making the
claim that those reports were bitter
pill to swallow, The fact is that those
reports arc an especial source of pride
TO the administration in their showing
Of economy, efficiency, and excellent
public service. The report of the street
supervisor was particularly good in its
showing of large savings and good
work done, and perhaps it is the bitter
Ito it) memory of that which makes
the News mention the report of the
Supervisor of Streets. That was in
deed a bitter pill TO the News, because,
contrary to its expectation of a bad
showing, it made a most excellent
showing and was especially satisfying
TO the American administration in COM
parison with the bad showing made
ceding administration. And any good
showing of the American administra-
tion, and demonstration Of its excel.
lent service to the public, is always a
bitter pill TO the News.
The church organ appears to be es-
pecially disgruntled because of our
showing of excellent work done in the
making of this city into metropolis
where 1t has been, so far as public i'm
provements are concerned, very much
behind the times heretofore. The con.
duIt and the creditahlc connection of
the American administration there
with, as we'll as the excellent work
done by the street supervisor, appear
TO be especially bitter pills in the
mouth of the church organ, but as long
as that connection and both forms of
work have been done so we'll aud with
such great economy aud satisfaction,
the sugaring of the pill is entirely
satisfactory to the public. The bitter
ness is only in the mouth of the News,
and this bitterness is because of the
very excellence of the work and the
good service to the public which it in
wolves.
The News backcaps the city by an
effort to show that it is in financial
distress. At the same time. it admits
the magnifcence of the improvements,
the large expenditures they involve, and
that every contractor and all the work
men get their pay promptly, without
discount or rebate The two PROPOSE
tions conflict, and it is for the News to
explain to its thinking readers (if it
has any) why it is that it maintains
proposition that the city cannot pay
while, in fact, it is paying If the
News will be honest for once, and ad.
NIT frankly and candidly the fact that
the city has plenty of money and is
paying fairly and fully Just as man
who is able to pay for the work he is
having done pays his contractors and
workmen, 1t would have less difficulty
IN reconciling its conflicting state
ments, and the pills which it feels
obliged TO swallow would not be bitter
any more.