The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-20

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THE PARTY or PROGRESS.
Tho Tylbupo claims ,r,,,oh r,.i,t ,,,,,.,
what r,,lic 'a''',I, ,"vuEu WIN S"iue-
Tm'E p.JlE .I3E, oil. pT"srcss IL bas made Salt
We 1otice tIat this claim is made I'm
ST"'gS g,,. lIri9s only No effort IS made
nstanco. tnat So much paving has boon
%1T %%%,i' W,'en "onid noe have been don"
And as long as the organ cannot point
Enii,Ii5a Ss's'| loot o. paving or single
monument 10 American" progress. its
a. "In,criI,iS r,@ 'S"''aT. nro,.,.,.. ~ .,.,.
years ago. tn" people here voted a
water svetc,n '' Er,'S'Gm ,C,,'o "' Nc Sns
seemed absolutely necessary for the
made n rc9r ,,af Tho y,,cr gT' ,',.,
,nsuflrlont and bad 20 be Increased lro-
ditIon TO The "j;@e Toru,,tio% TiI 3a tgc
| American party prove Itsclf progressive
tatly~s ,ygnd tG 5c5c,1 t,n ,i,'., w..
court proceedings. though moro water was
tho bonds and declared that tTSS citH GitiYFSS lad
acquired no water. by the negotiations.
Thcv demanded inprovcmcnts. Tho
'Amgrric2n party leaders were the OH
ht present hcy claim an the credit
ana Igr Tribune tales oS u Tom kenlns
fcw million dollars for paving and side
The News says that we mako no
effort at specification in support Of
our claim that tho American party IS
the party of progress. On the contrary.
VIC have entered fully into Spcciiica-
| tions, showing the vast public improve
mcnts put in, in street paving, side,
walk construction, sewer building, water
main laying. distributing water pipes.
and all sorts of hcttcrmcnts-thcsc
within four years 10 greater extent
than the church control did in all the
wears il was in power We have
| entered into detail. giving measure.
mcnts and itcmiHcd tables of cost. And
| yet The church organ has the cffrontcry
10 say that 40 effort Is made at
/ specification And rs TO the point
that some other party might hay" done
! all this If II had been in power, tho
conclusive reply is that the church
parties never havc done them when in
power, and would no, be in the least
| likely 80 do them if they could gam
power now In tho ranks of thc church
parties are found the constant oppo,
ncnts oi progress. he men who are
never ready 10 do any public work: an
| instance Of their rcaciionarv work he
ING their defeat last wear Of tho re-.
surfacing Of Main street, which every
| blic.spiritrd citizen know ought to
he done and which was done later. it's
opponents being ashamed TO fight
againS, II any longer.
1t is au absolute falsehood that the
| American party opposed the bond issue
| for water purposes here "ycars ago -
or at any time. The Tribune supported
! the issue in the campaign, and it is
not too much in say that The issue never
would havr been voted but for our
support As to the suit referred io,
! that was simply prn forma, for thc sat.
! isfactiou Of the BUYERS of the bonds
lo do away with any shadow of doubt
As 10 their legality. Tho same sort of
Z, suji was urosccutrd last wear os +,
inc 5000 600 bond issue; il was in both
eases merely nm assurance 10 the bond.