The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-10
OPPOSING IMPROVEMENTS.

oE SolN0 W.
True to its record Of opposing every
public Improvement suggested or car
RED on by others than It's own imme-
diate clique, the Deseret News is out
in long wall against the putting in
of the big water main to carry water
and increase the water pressure In
pipe hines Of the North Bench
On Thursday evening it came out in
n leading editorial in opposition to this
water improvement. urging that some
thing else was more important and
ought first TO he done. But this is usual
ly the final refuge of the News, It op,
poses everything originating in Amerl-
can sources, and when il finds its argu-
ment absolutely worthless on the mer'
its of the case. 1t shifts its position to
the point that something else should be
done first 1t is always something else
that 1t wants; never the matter In
hand; and its persistent and vicious op.
position TO sewers and all improvements
is notorious and is we'll remembered by
the people of Salt Lake.
The News has always been an OBJ
structive newspaper. 1t is reaction
airy, mossback, hidebound Journal. 1t
views and always has viewed with hor-
ror every advance of Salt Lake City.
Anything that is done outside Of priest
hood counsel is necessarily. in its view,
bad, 1t is scandalized at the idea of
Salt Lake City getting in a large pop
uIation that does not bow down to the
priesthood and obey it's dictates. II
has never heartily approved anything
for the advancement of Salt Lake, save
ms, that advancement might accrue TO the
advantage of the ruling ecclesiastical
power, We shudder to think Of the
frantic fits that the News would draw
If d proposition were submitted to the
people of Salt Lake such as has re-
Gently carried in Kansas City. We see
statement Of this in Municipal Engi-
neering for September, which summar-
ICES the matter as follows:
The bond issue election held in Kansas
City resulted in a victory for all the
questions under consideration except the
Armory, S250,000; the Art Museum, $780,
600, the Chase school, $4,000; and the
park Improvement. S6500OO. The items
that were voted on favorably were as
follows
For the completion of the market house
on the North Side. which will furnish
stalls for the gardeners, who daily mar
ket their product in Kansas City, and
bring about more sanitary conditions and
increase the revenue OF the city $4,000,
sand citizens of the city within the new
city limits, who are at present without
it, sl00. 600,
For increasing the capacity and eff
cheney Of the waterworks In accordance
with the plans of George II. Benzen-
berg, the Milwaukee engineer, who made
careful study OF the needs OF the Sys-
TEN. 81 900, 900.
For leyees and other improvements for
the Missouri river front to get it ready
for navigation, SIS 900.
For the erection OF q house of cor
rection on the city farm at Leeds, $780,
900.
For the installation OF n city paving
plant to enable the immediate repair OF
holes in the streets and at actual cost,
1000,
For the establishment OF an incinerat-
ing plant, 100000
For the erection Of a tuberculosis hos
pital. $50 600
For extending the sewer system of the
For the Twelfth street traffic way,
properly to unite the east and west sides
OF the city with traffic way at grade
low enough for heavy traffic, S475.000.
For the building OF modern bridges to
take the place Of old wooden structures
that the Board Of Public Works cannot
condemn now because OF the needs of
traffic across the Blue river and Brush
creek, 5000 900.
For the erection of city hospital for
persons afflicted with contagious dis
eases, $4,000.
If anything like that were submitted
In Salt Lake, we fear that the Deseret
News would be so thunderstruck, so
absolutely annihilated, that it would 90
out of business. But this the American
party can't well afford, because much
of ats best material and many of the
things most effective in its campaign,
are derived from the idiotic positions
of the Deseret News, which every one
sees must necessarily be taken in re.
verse, If we are ever to have a real
metropolis at this place.