The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-30

sidewalks likely any contracts wiz
be let within month or wOFrOm the DemOeraticTun
yesterday morning.
Occasionally defender of lOotng the city
tells the truth albeit always unwttngy 1t has
millions of dollars which from
payers in five have for sidewalks and other public i'm
city improvements betrayed by AUDITING property
replied with the same statement that the money was pent city i'm
provemens However yesterday morning it admitted the uhha
ety general
Having beaten down its defense that the three millions of dollars
that has been people
any similar period of the c history paid for city
about the three millions
In the five years preceding Tribune Lake the
of general totaed years
rule the has totaed $S29761s65
slightly less than twice as much as was collected for the five years before
Tribune took charge of the c govnment m the increase in
population has been slightly more tIa8 So it @ mot incea
in population, was it! And where did that money gol
When the Tribune into Salt Lake the total Indebtedness
OF the city $71So5S Today after five Of Tribune bossim
into tv @ o I b SI NOW, inns money money f not no 80 Is
ing Why necessary increase the indebtedness the city that
way? The ISSUE voted by the people in 1905
only 100000 and this would explain less than half of the increase
Indebtedness that the Tribune has added the city Most of that
sadded the city and what became of that money!
Inns year the merchants Of Salt Lake according to the information
youched for by the Tribune collector of licenses paying s28OOO for
business city That addition
t az f Two n % seeI" Guy lax ah1 Tue speclal
does and il his street has been improved sidewalk laid
uc That three hundred thousand dollars somewhere also and
mere Hnd mas MEYER Ta oSn Amy explanation Of NOT
5 p IN I money i ou II mas 5een spent o[ something else
'aSPaye5 whether he lives near the improvement or not
In 1905 when the Tribune ecng the people to vote the bond
issue the promise made that the bond approved by
people to do things that should be DONE that there would be
IN the general tax levy for We all know how
that promise kept The mills increase taxation this year
9575 has been collected in additional taxes the
O669 which has been added 10 the bonded indebtedness m tb c
the hundreds Of thousands of dollars that have been taken the
chants of the city, must add the profit which has been made from the
sale Of water the For the 1902 the city
$slS2 provide water for the people There collected that
1t doubtful whether they know in the city department There
profit per cent nobody what became of that money 1t
spent improving service which everybody knows the
law requires because made the water
of the 100000 bond issue And would interesting
And n addition all this the city already this has
t " b b want II 10 49, ms system Of oong 10 ea Lake
obtains in Salt Lake couns 10 ' prefer the sort system 'n no"
If this three millions and three millions does tell the story had
been in city improvements probable that few taxpayers
complain OF it. Every citizen OF Salt Lake wants the city improved
everywhere He bridges built wherever they
greatest city between Chicago and San Francisco and improved
to enable 1t to achieve its destiny But all this can be done economical
millions Of dollars has been stolen from the city by the Tribune
The of laying sidewalks constructing
from 40 60 in the last five If this money
aborers work. complain aorers are
entitled living and the they the the
chants the benefit it, eourhs this increase however
the pockets of the gafter There city
this city has been the pentenay yavng
the Tribune inner circle that did the trick and they'll there Is it
wonder that they elect their sheriff
to elect county attorney upon whom they dependl
There has been satisfactory explanation of where
One explanation has been the natural
the population The has increased
population the Tribune charge of the government
that increase of 81 has been used in defense
iebtedn profit of 100 the the city
etc
When that explanation failed for the three millions
the grafters have gotten the plea advanced that gone
Of everybody knows that
ody the Tribune itself said yesterday morning
paving sidewalks laid unless the
buttng it, and when they they
for it." That is all granted but why then keep the
that the additional
The of Salt Lake want city
progressive county governments they want possible
viii enhance the of their property ada 10
will Salt Lake desirable of residence that
viii heathfu place. The people things and
willing pay them But they necessity paving
u value for everything they get and then being mulced