The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26
HOW THE Law {" HELPED, :

ln Sow OF ldiotic attempt to claim
some credit for the bogus "RcpuhI.
can party in the matter Of public i'm
provcmcuis in this city. the organ OF
the ''Fcdcral bunch has referred TO
the statutes Of the state which govern
the public work here referred to These
statutes designate how this work shall
he projected, accepted. advertised for,
and performed, There has been such
legislation All the time, and the con
elusive reply 10 AL such claims of :. Re-
publican participation in the credit
due The American party in this mai
ter. must necessarily fail unless it can
be shown that that party when in power
pushed on these local improvements. II
is n clear case that it did not The
'soIld eight, comprising four 30 called
= Republican COuncilmcn. and for so.
called ''Dcmocratic' Councilmcn. all
Momons and all acting on the incitc.
mcnt of pricstly counsel. tied mp the
last Republican administration of
this city so that absolutely nothing
could be done, so that inasmuch as
neither Of the church parties ayaicd
themselves Of this legislation TO do pub.
lie work in tins city neither party is
entitled to any credit therefor. But il
is distinct point gained. and sig
nilicant acknowledgement of American
party benefit. that The Republicans -
want TO share this credit
But the case is far worse Than mere
generality The :! Republican lcgisla.
turc of 1907 passed law changing
aud making more difficult the method
Of procedure, this for the express pur
pose Of hampering the American party
in its programme for improvements i'm
this city. The advertising was out for
large schedule of improvements Will
the Legislature was closing lis session.
'Iwo-thirds Of thc legislature. which was
practically all Republican, - joined in
passing law changing the whole man.
ncr OF procedure in the way of adycr.
tislHs and preparing for public improve,
mcn's. II WIS ,oiit,cal enactment alto
gcther, IL he interest Of the reaction
aries, aud clearly intended to-stop Amer.
lean progress IN Salt Lake; and by spc
cial vote and provision il was made lp.
plicablc 10 the different propositions so
as 10 shut off the work that was there
contemplated and advertised 1t did
shut II of; it made the work more
costly il made an immense deal OF
trouble for rhe city officials. and it was
n good while before they could gel tho
work started again after that vicious
legislation. And this delay melted the
Smoot Mouth To charge falsely that
nounccd had been abandoned. that the
American administration had never in
tended to do the work. But it was
done all the same.
Inasmuch as the organ Of the Fed
cral bunch has made lis claim Of con
sidcration for the Republican party
by reason of legislative provision with
regard 10 public Improvements, il is
due TO the public that these facts be
stated as they are. The Republican y
legislature of Utah, controlled by tire
reactionary forces that are now oppos
lue lhe American party, ana always
have opposed IT, undertook 10 put
brake upon the wheels OF progress in
Salt Lake by that vicious and hostile
enactment, and progress was stopped
for time by 1T, aut he vital sr.Iit
of AmcrUanism prevailed, and rs soon
as the legislation could be studied and
its distractions avoided, the American
progress went right on Just the saNe.
II was vicious piece of legislation
altogether, which undertook to stop the
progress of this city Its anmus was
lnal as Inc church particS could not