The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-16
CUTTING THE MUNICIPAL MELON.

Unless the reader is determined to be blind to the
wrong actions of the American party bosses. he will
that they have been proitng rather richly from
their partnership with the paving trust
There is the wooden stave sewer. The original
work not properly done. Repairs were necessary
If the sewer do the work intended So
Pat Moran official for the bosses, was or
dered by tile mayor and his closest friends to go on
and do the repairs. The contractor who did the work
in the first place should have been compelled to do
his work absolutely according to contract. He had
given bond. He could have been made to keep that
contract If that had been done, the people would
have lost never cent on the job.
But Pat Moran's bill for repairing that sewer is
twenty thousand dollars. And the gang is making
the fight of its life get the When they get
it of the city treasury they expect to cut it
The contractor will get his share, of course The
original bill of the original builder viii be paid,
though the work done at all according TO con-
tract And the twenty thousand will help to fatten
the fellows who in politics for the rake-off.
You people remember the heavy rains of the early
summer. perfect torrent came down the hills, and
threatened the bridges and vaducts of the City creek
region. Pat Moran sent dozen men and teams to
~Woih For day in repairing the damage. And then
he put in bill for three thousand dollars. That was
another municipal melon. And the gang tried their
hardest to get the cash and cut it up.
If Pat had had all his teams for a week working
there on the creek he couldn't have piled such
bill as three thousand dollars.
They were after the graft. And if it had not been
for James Murdoch, Republican member of the city
council that bill would have been paid The money
would have been taken out of the treasury that be-
longs the people and after Pat got what he felt
he wanted, the rest would have been cut up by the
gang.
Still farther back in local history, but far
forgotten the Big Cottonwood conduit grab was
recorded. The water supply had been planned by the
previous administration Under the wise laws of the
Republican party the money had been provided. The
conduit built The American party bosses came
into power, and they at condemned the conduit
and declared it would not carry water. They sent
committee Of the council to look at the conduit and
that committee saw nothing, examined nothing but
the dinner drink Pat Moran provided them. They
learned nothing. But they came back and reported
that the conduit would never be of any account to
the city unless il plastered at cost to the city
of SEVENTY THOUSAND MORE DOLLARS!
And the contractor who did the work so badly that
they declared it would not hold water, was commits
stoned to go on and plaster the cOnduit-his bad
work
THEN THEY TOOK SEVENTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS OUT OF THE TREASURY OF THE
PEOPLE, AND NO REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
PEOPLE FROM THAT DAY TO THIS KNOWS
HOW MUCH OF IT STUCK TO THE FINGERS
OF THE GANG.
These are a few Of the gratis that have been per-
fectly we'll known TO all the people There has been
attempt at concealment. The gang has grown
perfectly bold, because they believed they could yell
''Hierarch' and the people would forget all about
the looting of the treasury They believe that now
They have been making more money councimer
and managers Of counCilmen than they could make
in any honest business in the world.
They have been cutting the municipal melon of the
city of Salt Lake, They have spent more than mil
lion dollars year of the peoples money, and every
OF them has fattened himself.
People purposey blind will not it. But people
a with reason know it is true.