Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-07
ANTE-ELECTlON THOUGHTS
GATHERED BY THE WAYSlDE

Salt Lake City. Utah Nov. 8, 1910
Editor Descrct Ncws--Will you
kindly give me the opportunity to
present IL few thoughts gathered by
the wuysidc have been reading the
papers of late concerning the claims
or the diilcrcnt parnes 1oi: tneir plAt-
1urlyis anu lnci, several candidates.
nave not READ All or the ciuiuH
maze as / do not mink 1t wise to SOW
the seed Of noxious weeds in u Well
lIuinuu hover garden, Dccuusc II Miii
rulise considerable labor anu SUI
Lering ~ upruut tncm, and II we lnl-
piUu iuisenvuu or laise uoctrine, Ill
our minus Win aoubL by try
ing 10 find out where the
great good claimed by some Is 10
he found, and at last ma 1 have
been chusing Il myth; my time mas
been spent, my BRAN puzzled, for that
winch Proictn nothing,
Tnen comes the question Is there
no way. or rule, that VIII help us lind
the true metals help lis decide
which has the nest FORM of govern
mcnt for the home, city, county or
state. 1 think there are some who,
like the player queen In Hamlet,
protest too mucn,n tney claim their
party have bcautncd the city, paved
The streets, improved tho roads, laid
tho sewers. In snort have done every
thing pralscworthy, more than has
ever been done by any municipal Of
ticers before in SAT- Lake. How Is this/
Why Is 1t that the citizens have huu
to pay the extra expense of paving,
sewerage, and every other Improves
ment, that had all been planned by
their predecessors In Office? so that
after all they can only claim the
working and carrying out the plan be-
fore under contemplation. but what
about the taxing of citizens to the
fullest extent they possibly could go?
True they have given them time to
pay by the instalment plan, by adj
ding interest to the exorbitant
sc!cnceless contractors, who, In
almost every instance have done
their work so imperfcctly that 1t has
had to be done over IN some in
stances: and then they, have had to
be paid again to perfect the work
they had been well paid for in the first
place. but imperfecty done. Is 1t right
that cement side walks Il year old
should be cracking In all directions?
AS to the credits for improvements
they are, IN a great measure, due to tho
citizens who have adorned tho city by
the beautiful homes they have built
and the artistic decorations of the
grounds surrounding. For the grand
business structures such MS the Utah
hotel and Newhouse blocks. and tho
fine mercantile blocks. II any one out
side of the owners should have credit.
1t would DO tho late Fisher S. Harris.
who worked nssduously for the good of
our state and tho Improvement and
identifying of Salt Lake City. He loved
Utah and her people and unsellshly
worked for the good OF tho whole peo-
Pic Mormon and Gentle, and to him
und his memory tho greatest NEED Of
praise belongs. Tho msnamed "Amer-
lean party has no claim in that d.
rection; there are things, however they
can Justly claim the credit for and that
Is permitting the unsightly fence
around the Kcarns building that has
been mn Inconvenience and trouble to
the citizens of Salt Lake so long
Then again, some claim that they are
the authors Of all the good times VIC
have been enjoying. and II IT We're not
for their doings we would all 80 to the
bow-wows. What the good times are
I will have to be shown and yet I am
not from Missouri, All the work there
has been Is through the gentlemen who
have erected and are erecting the mo