The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
" MOUTH" WAS
WELL ANSNE
People Have Had Full Value for
Money Handled by
Americans.
PROPERTY OWNERS PETITION
FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Betterments Add Materially to
Realty Values and Beautify
the City.
BY MAC.

BY MAC.
That was IL great expose which The
Tribune made Saturday morning of the
unscrupulous statements of the
"Mouth." F." That one article fairly and
squarely disposed of all of those ''Ihe
Thousand Dollars Day boxes. The
people who have the right to know
what is done with public moneys paid
into the Golfers OF Salt Lake City, were
Shown III admirable fashion,
''Who has that Three Million Dol
lars?p screamed the official organ.
Why, the whole people of the entire
city Of Salt Lake have every dollar OF
il in the way OF bettermcnts that are
Il pleasure to point to.
Ia this connection. have the Smoot-
ties forgotten that when such improve
ments as street paving, curbing, SIDE,
walks. etc, are made, the majority of
the ubutting property owners must first
petition for these? The city cannot
force improvements unless q majority
desire them. Then the city must foot
about two-ffths of the cost.
The city has been overwhelmed with
petitions from cnterprising property
owners during the past fvo years. In
deed, the difficulty has been to deter
mine Just how far the city could go
without 4 burden on the taxpayers. The
MAYOR and the council have taken the
matter up with the greatest care and
have considered not only the wishes of
the petitioners but the interests Of the
general taxpayer. The result has been
that nothing has been done that is caus,
Ing hardship to anyone who fully un-
deystands the ultimate benefit of SEN
siblc bettermcnts. Property values nat
urally increase in city that is wide
awake. The realty owners have noticed
n great rise in values since the Amer
lean spirit WIS turned loose in this
city Many have unloaded holdings
they had had for years, at fine profits,
Right now the realty market is not
satisfactory. but the reaction that will
shortly set in will crafty the most
cSpectaDt
For time. doubtlessly, the published
SANDERS against the order of the city
will deter the thousands of outsiders
who had thought Of investing here, but
the result of the balloe next month. if
The detractors arc repudiated. will swift
~ restore confidence and precipitate
another genuine boom.
Every true friend of the city should
strive TO make American victory a dou-
bic assurance. The effect of a strong
Endorsement of the progressive admin
istration in Salt Lake is certain to be
beneficial to the realty market. 1t will
mean that the people Of Salt Lake City,
who know local conditions, have hurled
the sanders of the city back to tho un-
principled political mountcbanks, and
have defended the city's good name
with the power of their suffrage,
That burglar letter Of the Smoot or
gan was laughed out of the campaign
even by the Smoot politicians II was
q real joke. Aud most of the people
of Salt Lake guessed at once that the
author was in all likelihood the braZen-
faced scamp who recently robbed the
fund which friends of the late Allan
Lovey raised for the support of the
dead cartoonist' s mother,
One thing that well illustrates the
unfairness of the local Republicans is
their refusal to recognize the Ameri-
cans in making I'M the election boards.
The law requires that an opposing party
be represented on each board. Instead
OF this. the minority member is invar.
iably Democrat, and most Of these
arc in reality tools of the local Repub-
lican machine.
Last year when the Americans had
the amounting Of the election Judges,
Councilman James D. Murdoch WAS per.
mItted to name Republican in each
district where the Republican vote had
and the Democratic city chairman
named q. Democrat in districts were
tho Democratic voto exceeded that of
the Republicans. 1t was an emnentIy
fair arrangement and Murdoch said he
would gee to it, If lie had the power,
that Americans be treated likewise this
year.
Did be do itT He did not. He is A
county commissioner now and AS such
he did not allow the Americans "A sin.
gle Judge In the entire county.
And some say Murdoch is fair man!
Here in Salt Lake county the Smoot-
tics arc telling the liquor men that they
have no intention Of submitting the
liquor question TO tbe people ninety
days after tho adjournment Of tho leg
1slsture. They whisper an explanation
that that plank in their platform was
written to satisfy the prohibitionists in
the Republican party. Ont in the state.
however, the statement is made that
the Republican members OF the legis.
lature will 90 even farther than the
platform dccIares-lhat 'hc platform
would have been stronger If it were not
fcr the fear of losing Salt Lake county.
u looks very much like some more
embarrassing was about to be in.
dulged in by the "bnncb."
Sheriff Sharp is quoted by a we'll.
known citizen as having said few
years ago "The American party is
made MP of the scum of the Garth - II
the sheriff attended The Colonial the
ater meeting last night he may have
changed Ills mind, if he has ono of his
own.
On Monday night. October n. there
was quite shooting affray at Bingham