The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-12
UTAH'S TAMMANY.

| We arc IN receipt OF iCdllcI IIou
the Bureau of Municipal Research il
| New York City with regard TO th
| proposed new charter for that gres
metropolis. This leafet quotes Colo
mel Roosevelt as being Of the opinion
''that il is highly absurd 10 say thai
the authorities at Albany propose tc
grant n new charter 10 New York;
the word impose he deems proper
one.
The leaflet proceeds to approve the
point as legitimate one 10 make. and
TO say that "throughout the charter
discussion the salient thing has been
not that any considerable number OF
persons arc asking for new charter
but that the programme is to provide
one whether il is wanted or not, -
The Bureau of Municipal Research
is very severe upon the methods of
making the fight for that new charter.
II appears that the charter Is not TO
be submitted to the people Of New
York; and the bureau holds that the
imposition of new charter upon the
people without the consent or the city
is an innovation which is both unrea-
sonable and an indcfensible opprcs-
sion.
We consider that the point made by
the New York Bureau Of Municipal
Research is Il good one. The people
of any unit of government in this
country have right TO be consulted
and TO say for themselves what change,
if any. they wish to make in their form
of government. This, however, is de
MED by the Tammany politicians OF
New York, who appear determined to
impose upon the people of that city
a form Of government favored by the
Tammany bosses, rather than a form
which the people themselves would
approve. And so the bureau makes
its complaint accordingly that the peo-
pie of New York City are being de-
frauded and imposed upon by the
Tammany politicians.
The complaint is a perfectly Just
one, and it affords The Tribune an
opportunity to draw parallel again
between the harpy politicians and Tam
many Hall in New York and the barpy
politicians Of the Federal bunch in
Utah. Those two vicious organizations
are on level with regard TO appe
tites and grabs, and with regard to
The disposition common to both TO dis
regard the rights, liberties, and wishes
Of tho people. The Board of Munich
pal Research In New York City enters
It's emphatic protest against having
imposed upon the people of Greater
New York charter which the people
IF that city shall have no hand either
IN framing or adopting. The people OF
Salt Lake City, victimlZcd by Utah IS
Tammany protest agains; having a
form of government imposed upon
them which was neither called for nor
adopted by the people, and which the
people had no voice in either framing
,r approving. The New York Tam
many imposition is like the Utah Tam
many imposition; the two are one in in
ent and IN oppression.
The relations of the people of New
ork CITY with the charter Tammauy
ias prepared and is cndeavoring to !
'oist upon that city. arc precisely of |
he same nature as the relations of the |
lcople Of this city with the foisting
If new and unexpected form of mu.
ilcipal government upon Salt Lake
'ity. The Federal bunch here is as
lose pattern Of New York s Tam
many Hall as it could be possible TO
'btain in the degree and ratio of the !
wo cities. And the proposed action OF |
New York s Tammany with regard TO |
he new charter for New York CITY is |
precisely on par with the imposi- |
ion upon salt Lake City OF "A new
.orm of government not approved by |
his city, but arbitrarily imposed upon
I by the Federal bunch.