The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-20
ONLY AN APPETITE.

! A good deal of noise is making by
| the Herald with regard TO public inl-
provements and the refund Of money
! to the property owners when the work
is not done. Now, this latte- is rre-
ciscly what the American Council has
ordered, aud it will be done rs soon
as tho lists designating the properties
not covered by work on contracts can
be prepared by the City Engineer.
But how was IL under tn, Morris ad
ministration, which the Herald has al
ways defended, and still swcars by?
When the demand for refund to th-
property owners in such case was made
upon the Morris administration, the re-
fusal to mako that repayment was ac-
companied by a most amazing ,onfes-
sion of imbecility. 1t was stated that
the books Of the city were not in such
shape as TO admit Of such refund, as
there was no way OF singing out those
at their premises, Consequently, the
money was retained by the Morris city
administration and never refunded at
ALL nor the work done, either. When
we consider the very small amount OF
public work done by the Morris admin
of Improvements, it will be all the moro
realized what imbccility was at the bot
tom Of that grotesque explanation. And
yet the Herald thought that was all
right with Morris; but q lesser with
holding (Which is in process of rectif-
administration is an unbearable atfront
TO public moralsl
Comparisons between the Morris ad
ministration and the present admins.
tration always resolve themselves into
contrasts, when ranged up alongside
and the pitiable, abject, worthless. i'm
beetle object in the comparison must
in every case bear the Morris brand.
The Brigham street Improvement had
practically TO be taken out of the hands
of the Morris officials by Col. Wall, un.
der his guarantee to protect the prop
erty ownors from damage; the Morris
gang, incompetent and arrogant ap,
peared determined to ruin the street and
inhict immeasurable injury upon the
property owners; so Col. Wall took
charge and completed the work, chang
ing the destructive. crude and foolish
plans which the officials seemed deter
mined to put through, In the matter
Of the Big Cottonwood conduit the same
lack Of ability was shown. In order to
get to work and make a showing for
campaign purposes, the plans and speci-
Gcations were so hurried MS TO be both
defective and wasteful; the first hard
work of the American administration
was in correcting the defects and ehmi-
mating the waste
It certainly takes monumental gall
for newspaper which undertook the
defense of the Morris administration
incompetent and faith-breaking as it
was, to rail at the American admins
tration, which at every point is so en-
phatically the superior of the Morris
administration, The fact that the Her
aid does this merely shows that il
doesn t comprehend what it is up
against; that it, doesn't know anything
about the matter. 1t Is so absolutely
ignorant of the whole question that it
has no comprehension at all Of the
public administration of tho public af-
fairs of the city, and does not under
stand wherein one administration fails
and another succeeds. Its outcry is
merely the VOLTS howl for prey, with
no intelligence behind it.; merely an ap-
petite.