The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-04
HOW 1T HATES PROGRESS!

flOW inc 1r3nQuISHE. MOSS pdth duu
mendacious writers of the political
priesthood hate the progress that Salt
Lake City has made under American
control! On Wednesday evening there
was loud vail from the Deseret News
in the way of protest against the pub
lie improvements in Salt Lake CITY,
with the usual reckless talsehood of
statement. The organ makes AZ evil
a showing as it, cau with regard to the
money received, and then in burst
of enthusiastic mendacity it asks, but
the question is. what has the city to
show for it7'' 1t then goes on to
cite the total indebtedness of the city,
as though that had been incurred under
American administration. Tho News
knows beyond question that less than
one fifth of this debt has been incurred
by tho American administration; and
when it says further that elf thor
ough investigation were made, we be-
liere it would be found that Tho cost
of city paviugl was so high that the
property owner has TO cover both the
StiCCt III lipuD VI VIC PlopSibN "pN VIZ
corresponding part of the cross see,
ton, The writer of that knew per-
fectly we'll that he was lying when he
wrote il; for The Tribune has been fur.
nishing exact statements of this mat
ter, showing from the records just what
has been expended on private and pub
lie account in tho matter of street paw
ing and other improvements.
Tho News, with regard to this, says,
'therc was practically no compcti-
tion. and it is no secret that the alb
sencc of competition means an c1or-
bltant cost. ~ In this also the News
writer knew that he was stating a
falscbood. Competition is always called
for. and no work is let without bids
received. IT is not true that the work
has been done at an cxorbitsnt cost.
On the contrary. tho work done in this
city is pronounced by competent ex-
perts the cheapest and also tho best
that any city in the country can show.
The truth is, as The Tribune is show
ing daily, that the city has borne its
full proportion of the public improve.
ments, We have given the figures
from the record, and there is no dis
putting them. On Saturday, October
END. Tho Tribune printed tnbles show
ing the whole matter in detail, The
total for public improvements under
American administration amounts to
Is. .335. .742d7. OF this the city's pro-
portion, which the municipality has
paid. amounts to $2,2S4 ,449,10. These
figures have been made public from
time to time. Their accuracy is un
questioned There is not the slightest
excuse for anybody, unless he wishes
10 be reckoned a gross liar TO make
such statements as the News makes on
his point.
In the same statement in the issue
quoted, The Tribune showed that the
public municipnl improvements for tho
present year will amount to $l,150,-
67l.S9 OF this the city's proportion
will be $3.50, ,567.5l. Throughout all
Inc public expenditures the city's pro-
portion is fixed, and there cannot be
.hc slightest excuse for any one say
ng that the individual property owner
s assessed so high us to cover both the
street in front of the property and the
part Of the cross section.
we do not see what the News
expects TO gain by printing lie like
his.
The whole attitude of the News on
his question. its willful lying, simply |
proves the hatred that that organ and |
he interest il represents have toward |
he public improvements in this city. |
The News seems to consider that any
sort of falsehood is warranted because
Of its hatred. and that any sort of mis-.
yiIiticatiou, and abuse
is doing God s service when il is aimed
At tho American party. A paper SO
absolutely low IN morals, so reckless
md prepostcrousIy mendacious in state
ment, was never known before as the
organ of religious sect, iu the long
history of the world