The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-05
that of our silver throated Rocky
Mountain canary.
STILL CHEWs ITS BITTER PILL.

TOT general expense and maintenance
1t knows that this occurs every year
and knows there is nothing at all alarm
ing about it, Still, it finds the i'm
provements being made by the Amer
lean party in the city TO be so we'll re
ceived by the public that it finds them
a bitter pill TO chew. So it breaks out
In snarl.
The church organ affects to believe
that The Tribune said last year that
the overdraft then existing was largely
chargeable TO the Morris administration
Well, so it was. The Morris admins.
tratlon showed over into the American
city administration bills and obliga.
tlons amounting to $4,000 and upwards,
which it should have paid before going
out of Office. That administration col.
lected up closer than any other admin
! istration from the tax collector, and
turned over scarcely anything on the
general tax account to be received by
the American officials as they came into
office. That is to say, it gobbled all the
| funds in sight and paid as few of its
| bills as possible; and when the News
claims otherwise it is guilty of deliber-
ate and willful falsehood, This, of
course, is nothing new to the News,
| but 1t is merely another black speck
to be added to the sadly notified sheet
which records its vicious career.
Another "bitter pill' to the News
is the investment OF $4,000 by the State
Land Board, after a full investigation
by It's attorneys, IN the warrants of
this city. This proves that the Land
Board is fully convinced of the sol
vency of the city, and Of the safety
of cashing it's paper.
It is, of course, a bitter pill TO the
News to see how well the work of the
American administration is received
by the people of Salt Lake 1t is al
ways bitter pill for the Deseret News
TO hear any word of credit passed in
favor of the American party or its do
ings. 1t is a bitter pill to it that the
business of the city so largely increased
on the ousting of the church party
from power. The advanced bank clear
ances, the tremendous growth of the
city in population and wealth, the recall
of the people by thousands who had
gone away during the Morris admins
tration, are all sad sights for the Des-
eret News s eyes, 1t writhes in an
guish every time that anyone speaks
of the alluring prosperity and growth
of Salt Lake under the American ad-
ministration. II is bitter pill to it
10 see so much public improvement go
ing on; and bitterness is added to the
pill when it finds that the contractors
receive their pay duly, and the laborers
never pass a pay day without getting
their money.
AS 10 the overdraft in the general or
current fund, the News need not worry.
The present year s taxation has not
come in at all yet, but Will be ample
to cover everything and leave the city
a clean sheet with nice balance to
the good on the opening Of the new
year. The News, of course, knows all
this. but il serves its dishonorable pur-
pose to mislead, prevaricate and lie. The
words of commentator which il hears
on every hand for the good work that
the American administration is doing,
for the progress it is bringing to the
city, for the large public Improvements
which it orders and is putting in, are
all so much gall and wormwood to the
News. 1t must be source of extreme
misery TO anyone to be in such a
wretched condition as the editor of the
Deseret News is in with regard to these
public improvements. 1t cannot keep
from railing at them nearly every day.
Its cup Of bitterness runs over. and it
sends out its wall of anguish and
spreads the bitterness of its heart all
over It's pages merely because the city
is growing, is prosperous, and every
body recognizes that the reason for
this growth and prosperity is because
the American administration is in pow
er. That is what hurts
And another thing that hurts almost
as bad is that it knows that this pros
perity would be checked, the public
improvements would stop, the city
would take on listlcss paralysis which
would be fatal TO it's immediate vitality
and growth if the lawless. ecclesiastical
power could once more fix its greedy
talons in the vitals of the municipal
administration, Everyone remembers
how the vital advance in this city was
checked by the defeat of Mr. Knox
and the election of Mr.. Norris Every.
thing fell dead at once, progress stopped
still. Business was done, to be sure,
but not on any such scale as was just
ly to be expected. and thousands of
people left the city because Of the leth-
argy and lack Of activity that was man
ifest on every hand. That is the sort
of thing that the News is plotting to
bring upon the city in the name Of
peace, and that is the kind that the
American administration is trying TO
prevent.
Everyone knows that the vital pro
gress Of this city is bound up III the sue