The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-07
Boosr THE CITY TODAY!

The citizenship of Salt Lake should
rally 70 the polls TO-DAY for the good
of the city. Material progress Is
threatened and the dry rot of church
rule. which we have known heretofore
as so paralyziug and so crushing, would
supervcnc upon the election of the re-
dictionary ticket.
The American ticket stands for pro-
gross. for advancement. for the uphuild-
ing of the city. for It's growth IN pop
ulation. wealth. and command of bust
ness.
The American party gave the city it'
growth of almost 10000 population, as
shown by the United States census of
last year That is. the five years oil
American rule not only repaired tho
ravaccs of the first five years OF the
decade under church rule, but almost
doubled the city 5 population besides.
II is brilliant record. 4 record tha'
| is familiar 10 everyone; that is well
known. and officially established. On
the triumph of the American party IN
November 1905 warm appreciation OF
the advantages Of salt Lake CITY
rescued from the grin of q paralyInG
bierarchic rule. spread AL over the
United States. People came by the
hundreds. and afterwards by the thou
sands, to settle among us, bringing
their enterprise. their push. their in
dustrv, and their wealth. The city
sprung at once from n torpor Of letb'
argv into vital vigorous life. 1t be.
gan TO progress between election day
and the opening of the ensuing year
when the American elected officials took
charge From that moment the build
ing of the city began. and it has ama2-
inglv and steadily progressed ever
since.
The evidence OF this is on every hand.
The census returns are the best possible
proof of the vitalizing energy and bcne-
fits of American party rlle, Everyone
knows how tho city has grown in pop
ulstion and wealth, and expanded IN
area. under American administration.
Everyone knows that these conditions
were impossible under the church rule,
because the church administration was
ALWAYS backward. besiiating. ineffective
for progress. and opposed to modern
building. Those church administra.
tions never failed to find abundant eX-
cuses for not doing anything for the
city.
Precisely in line with those old eX-
1. ,,.t-,,
now before the people in opposition to
the progressive American ticket, halts
in it's promise of pushing the city TO the
front bv saving that it will put IN I'M
provements "as fast as the public rev
enucs will permit - But under church
administration the public revenues never
permit of any advance. The money is
always taken for other uses than nm
provemcnts; and while the burdens of
the people are no less than under Am
by the church administrations are woe
fully disappointing in public benefits.
1t is the pride and glory of thc Am
erican party that 1t has been able to
devote so large a portion of the public
revenues TO public Improvements. some
thing which the opposition never found
itself able TO do. and would not find
itself able 10 do now.
The duty of the day is, to elect the
full American ticket. and so keep the
city on IFS onward path of progress,
and defeat those who would switch the
city of on TO "a side track where it
would stagnatc and decay.