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Show SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 .it ih- - I lUr iti ;! ih SubMCrlptlon v.r n Si in T nil Rate: ' iMM-lh- ..ik hi ! m In .1 ill. a I Uuion.nn vt: . -- f, f..r HtnHr. me 1 in l'Su m r if 'l In tVi rll.! jr In a I in lim,ril li!tl II n) II. M Dlurontlnujncei: !r I b If lh pip r l n t n I i'i t ibiTil 1 for, I b in! notion hr v intUn wskt bfnr ii lh urin tXpif'i. All .nrrium tnui b" p.iM. AdvertUInff Rales: Th IUn lun th Inrii ritvi'minn of anv wkly ihmv.-pl- r n ft!(rlLitf p ililUh'! in rub. uni l miHlium of ri..,'iilt I li. Kiioi will ! nml knonn on application. Remittances: All Draft. IV-Office r Kxpre nancy order nnl Krir- iKl b a llrse,l m l m iI piynl.le l h Utoreil Letter', 1 1 lnr 'r.t ilo-refo- r tu-r- BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 6; Commercial St., Salt Lake City. NEWMAN LIEN ! I Se ect jfood men lor the Council. . Ill View of i j 1 . Publishe lit! fact that conventions for om n a i t i n g city tickets are about to be held ve take this opportunity to sncjcst to the people who go as delegates that they pay more attention to the candidates for city council than has been customary in years past. The city councirexercises the discretion of the corporation. It is the legislative department of the city government, the part that is supposed to do the thinking and the planning. The other officers are purely executive; their business it is to follow out the duties imposed by the laws and the city ordinances. If a stranger coming to a city could see its council in session before he saw the city he could pretty accurately estimate the condition of affairs in the city. Me could tell what the business men were like, for surely the council would be made up of representative men whether or not business was good, the condition and spirits of the men would show it; whether or not he wanted to locate and go into business in the place, for by their dealings there, he could tell their callibre. In the council should be men of experience and ability, men who can be trusted with the management of city affairs. It is the council and not the city Attorney or city Recorder that expends the funds in the city treasury and that fixes the amount of taxes necessary to be raised for the following year. It is the council that is responsible for ; VOL II. NO. 29 the condition of the streets; ior wrought by the Mormon? after then of water; that initiates and reached the "land of the God forcarries on public improvements. In saken, now Utah, where prosperous fact it is the council that determines cities stand and where smoke from the whether the city will be a progressive of factories curl gracefully one or not. to heaven; cattle graze upon a thousProbably because the city Recorder and hills; gold and silver can be exdraws $i,8oo a year and the city Attor- tracted with ease. There in the thedis-triluitic- ....... . vHhH.trtcilr iiu,,n m cU SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. n red-throat- ney $2,500, while councilman is paid the handsome sum of $420, we arc! apt to think the former arc more important s of the hoary mountains so high) on can stand on their summit and tickle tilt feet of St. Peter, with gorges personages in the citys affairs than the so deep you can hand ice to the councilmen. A greater mistake? can damned- - these frugal people live." not be made. A city government with The writer concludes by quoting the a weak council is worth about as much articles of faith of the Mormon church to tin? city as a modern engine-stea- med and decides there is nothing wrong in up, well greased and everything in them, saying: Now, if there is anything in your perfect condition would be to a concreeds superior to these tractor who had no engineer to run it. principles, shall he delighted to have such superiority' pointed out. Im tired of seeing you highly ii.Ki,iiiaii,i wiiiwiiw. i I 2 Commenl picy sanctimonious dont think) sermoni-zer- s Denin cation over tn Cannon C5e the tail of your own shadochasing ver comments on the w-tired of hearing you abuse the in M. a case Cannon Angus pretty Saints for doing the things you are spicy manner. The writer shows a lack as guilty of as they are. of knowledge of some facts, but that is not very material. Me says: iwimiwi imiar If a man wants to President Cannon of the Mormon ? The Wisdom run up against a church recently acknowledged before of the Fool. s God and a court of law in Utah at paradox let him start out to consider the other any rate before the court of law that he had been poaching on the connubial fellow a fool. It is by no means unBrother common either for men to do this very preserves of another man. Cannon liberally satisfied the Goddess thing. Idle' commedian is always a fool to the Gradgrind and vice versa. o Justice with a crisp hundred-dolla- r In ancient times the king could not bill, spanked the new edition of Cannon, mapped his mosaic brow, winked at the do without his court jester, and it was old girl in the case and let generally the case that the only truth with the old girls hub- told amid all the deceitfulness and inbe by. It does seem now that Brother trigue, treachery and tragedy of royCannon should be given a rest that alty was that which came from the man he should be groomed for the next old who wore the cap and bells. He was gurl who may wish to root round in tolerated and given crumbs from the the jungle of the Presidents luxuriant table of the favorites and courtesans because well, because he was a fool. whiskers for his other sweet tooth. The writer then goes on and de- The wise man of society today is pretty fends the Mormons and polygamy, much as were those foxv favorites and It is no worse to practice courtesans, too, because he practices saying: polygamy in the Mormon church than the great virtues of silence, while the fools of society are pointing out its it is to practice prostitution in the Presbyterian church. It is not as bad, in idiosyncracies; its errors; its injustices. Let us take a snap shot at human fact, to marry two wives or ten wives, and support them as wives, as it is to society as it is constituted at present. show up one and hide the rest. Something, whatever it may be, seems He speaks of the transformation to stand over every man with a giants shadow anti-Mormo- n I psalm-snifilin- ? , it first-clas- by-gon- by-gon- es es g, |