The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-29
AMERICAN HELP TO THE PEOPLE

fond of taking stories from time TO time
on ''the injury that the American
party has done TO Salt Lake City. 1t
takes very good care, however, never to
print any names in connection with
such fake stories, nor in any way TO
identify its yarn with any fact or per
SON that can be traced. The News in
this simply pursues it's usual tactics of
lying and hiding. There is absolutely
nothing in the stories it tells
But the amazing thing is that it
should have the eYrontery TO be telling
such stories in view of the tremendous
progress that is making in Salt Lake
City, and that has been making the
last three years, the like OF which was
never known before in the history of
this place, and the vital force Of all
being directly tTaceable to American
ism. Everybody knows, everybody re-
alizes, the tremendous advancement
that this city is making under Ameri-
can control. 1t is, therefore, ali the
moro amazing that any paper should
undertake to make anybody believe
that the American party is doing any
thing 10 the damage of the city.
II was the American triumph that
vitalized the city and resuscitated 1t
from the torpid condition in which the
church control pnt il and kept it. In
1905, the last year of church control in
this city, Salt Lake was absolutely
retrogrsding. We doubt If there had
h.a IA, ieEt
to that time over the census figures in
1900. But at once upon the accession
of the American party to power the
city leaped forward. aud has continued
advancing By leaps aud bounds ever
since. And the public improvements
have led the tremendous advancement
along private lines in the way of build
ing, increase in business, and additions
to the population. II it had not been
for the American party enterprise in
leading and paving the way for private
enterprise we would have seen no such
as has been realized.
To deny the American party the chief
credit for the advancement that this
city has had since 1908 is simply TO
play the part of an obstinate ass. There
had been every opportunity mere for ad-
before that time just as
but no advantage was taken of 1t;
nothing was done about it during all the
years of church supremacy; the city
was allowed TO lie dead; the admins
tratiop was dormant, held so by the
church combustion Of tho "solid
eight and through other tricky and
politics that emanated from
church headquarters. It was only upon
the acquisition of power by the Ameri
can party that the city was allowed to
take on its metropolitan aspect, that
the city administration responded TO
the demands of the situation and the
public needs, clearing the way for pri-
vate enterprise and pushing the invita-
tion to new settlers. by tho paving of
streets, putting in the sewers, the
of sidewalks, the strict atten-
tion to sanitary conditions and require
ments; and in every effort necessary to
make the city great from the standpoint
of municipal administration, the Ameri.
can party responded nobly TO the de-
mands of the time. Following this at
once came the vast expansion that we
have seen IN private enterprise and
This has been going on now
for three years, the present year reach
ing the high line in all this enterprise
and progress,
Americanisln has done this magniti-
cent and noble work for Salt Lake CITY.
Ii wall do as much in corresponding dc.
gree for the county when il gets control.
AID, above all, it will stop the graft,
the mismanagement, the incompetence,
the favoritism, and the miserable lob
berries, that have been going on in coun-
ty affairs The sheriff and the county
attorney have squandered the public
money by the tens of thousands of dol
lars IN their conspiracy and war, Coun-
ty VS.. City, which has been going on
now for some two years. The idea of
having the county and the city work
in harmony does not appeal to the
tTicksters who have had the
county government under their control
for the past two years and have worked
1T for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of them
selves, to line their pockets, and to help
their friends, at enormous and needless
cost to the taxpayers.
We doubt if. any such corrupt.
wretcbed, and altogether blameworthv
county administration exists in any
other State in the Nation as we have at
present in Salt Lake county. 1t is an
administration Of jobbery, graft, IA
vorltism, and every-fellow. get and keep
what-he-can for himself and his friends.
The road taxes have been squandered
on roads that are prac-
tically private roads, and the public
roads have been neglected for the pri,
vate snaps thus favored.
And now the efforts of the church
gang are franticaily directed towards
the covering up OF the frauds, scandals.
gratis and jobs, that they have carried
through. Nothing like the effort to-