The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-31
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fact that the whole matter was fully ex
planned, that the precise work done fol
this money was given with exactness
the beneficial and necessary nature oi
that work fully cXplained-all this j:
ignored by that press in its raving
against the increase in the tax levy.
The evening church organ gives out a
series of hystcrical shrieks about it with
a lot of general and absurd charges OF
loot and extravaganza that are abso.
lutcly ridiculous when the fact is fully
known that every dollar collected is
fully and honestly accounted for, and
the city gets honest work for all of its
expenditures The truth is that Salt
Lake City has made extensive and far
reaching public Improvements at cost
far below that of any other city sim.
| ilarIy situated, and It's economical ad-
mlnistration as compared with other
cities of the country is fully known, ap.
preciated, and acknowledged by those
who arc honest and have an intelligent
interest in and knowledge of the facts
The morning Mormon paper is also
in Mysteries over the matter, holding
that "There is no excuse for the crimi
nal carelessness and wastefulness of the
city council and that by another year
"instead OF $l4I 900 deficit the amount
may reach a million or more This, of
course, is idiotic frenzy and is well
known TO be such, and dishonest be
sides, by the one who wrote 1T.
''We pay for the water we use, - says
the evening organ, Nthough IL belongs
TO the people; and then we pay some
thing extra for water supply probably
meaning the water distribution, and so
on rs if there had ever been time
since the pipe system was begun that
we didn t pay for these, and glad to
get it by the paying!
All of the outcry is perversc, uncan-
did and IN fact unintelligent. 1t is
simply partisanship run mad, and bias
in its most stupid and uncomfortable
form.
Salt Lake is growing city. 1t has
forged TO the front in the FIVE years of
American administration as never be-
fore in its history, and as no one know.
ing its condition five years ago could
havo thought possible. With the in
coming of the American administration
there came to the city spirit of pro.
gress, of growth, of enterprise, of indie
pendent commercialism that ii had
never known before. Its citizens be
gan to take a pride in the city. They
saw with satisfaction the incoming of
petus for progress, bringing their wealth
with them. Whatever progress Salt |
Lake CITY has made in the decennial
period it has made within the five years
of American rule. Up to the time Of |
The wrestling Of the municipal govern
nent from the priesthood, there had |
been practically no growth over the
census Of 1900 In fact, a great many |
people were moving away. There were
many empty houses in the city. Prop
price People were discouraged, were
osing faith in the civic ability of those
II control to bring the city into the
inc of modern progress and metropoli
an life and greatness.
All this was changed as by magic
when the American party took charge,
md ever since the city has been moving
o the front with rapid and splendid
strides, Every one now recognizes the
greatness of Salt Lake. its imperial stu
ltion. its commercial greatness, and it's
ure future. Despair has been succeeded
oy hope, and hope by confidence, until
low every one is booster for Salt
lake.
All this regeneration could not be
made, of course, without the expendi-
ure of money for improving the city,
without doing something TO show that
me city is ready to help itself TO be
eallv the great metropolis that nature
designed ii to be. The people of Salt
lake City do not get great things for
lothing, any more than people do in
,ther places. They have TO pay for pub
ic improvements. They have to pay
or the great municipal benefits con.
erred: but these benefits have been
provided. They are worth
very dollar they cost, and every dollar
pent for them has been spent honestly,
aithfully, and to good advantage.
The progressive people of this city
re not complaining. They are willing
o nay the difference that it costs to
prng from death into life, and at a
'ery small cost comparatively they have
cen the city do this.
Under the old dead-alive conditions
he city government was not worth
what it cost, 1t gave the people moth
ng. The officials simply absorbed their
alaries and administered affairs in a
outline way. without responding to the
demand of the times for advancement,
md without showing anything of pro.
,ress from year to year.
This has been changed under the
American administration; changed rad
cally and benefcially. And everyone
s satisfied with it except the moss
'acks and the fanatical zeaIots who are
iscontcnted with progress and who are