Show Political City engaged in the luxury of a bond election yesterday The proposition was whether or not the city should incur an indebtedness of to establish an electric light and at this writing it is not known how it It has become so much the vogue for municipalities to be in debt that pretty much all of them are in that while many are striving to get in It is the same with a community as an things that you can't have to pay for are often taken for that reason more than any v until when the reckoning time comes- all that the debtor sees is no longer his except in a possessory Of course improvements must be made so that the pace of civilization can be kept up but the trouble as indicated once it is difficult to set the limit and more difficult not to pass it when it has been Salt Lake City is an object we don't have to look very far back to behold the time when it didn't owe a cent and lived strictly within its income happy lot Of course we had to progress and progress is so while we are overwhelmed with indebtedness there is unquestionably something to show for but if the ratio of debt keeps up its present and recent where are we likely to Isn't it paying pretty dearly for improved conditions to mortgage our children and their children indefinitely with a steadily growing and never diminishing financial even now far beyond the possibility of Nobody dares to suggest calling a the only plan for keeping things going now is to go further and deeper into the pool the evil lives by what it feeds After attending to his legal business and doubtless making a preliminary sizing up of things Senator Sutherland departed he came as quietly as Even this far ahead a certain gentleman prominent in political circles was asked recently to announce himself a candidate for U. S. but he happened to be a loyal friend of Sutherland s and put the away offer as decidedly as Caesar-did the kingly crown offered him by Marc The senior senator will doubtless enjoy reading this paragraph when The Independent The Sevier County have taken the bull by the horns and boosted the liquor license up to a That for some of the dealers at Prohibition under another name with a more practicable and sensible There are mighty few people in this goodly state who want the liquor traffic to go on in aS wide-open a way as it was very few hut what wanted the prevailing restrictions made more and fewer still who wanted a regulation that has proven to be a complete failure wherever The Sevier Commissioners have struck the right As was to be expected by the more discerning and predicted by not a the Payne tariff bill is becoming a thing worthy of its Horizontally it is a revision upward instead of the promised revision the articles which have been lowered being with but few those which are not great consequence one way or it is a great thing for the tariff to be reformed by its It must he a painful as well as novel experience for a large share of our adult male population to be deprived of the succulent lunches wherewith they have stayed their stomachs during the poon hour for these To a fellow up a the important or any reform which this proceeding has wrought does not make itself apparent at first and is not likely The closing at 12 o'clock is all right and ought to be enforced closing feature the Sunday little because of-there amounts to but being for some time past not much doing in that 3 had a municipal election up in the other which was pronounced the most hotly contested one ever pulled off It was a good deal of a although the leading represented the Democratic and Republican Joseph T. was elected mayor over John M. the former backed by the liberal or presumably wide-open while the latter the more goodly including the at his Nampa and Twin Palls also went decidedly and yet Idaho is by no means an intemperate Fred W. the governor's antagonized appointee to the important post of fish and game is going about his duties in a way suggestive of capability The only thing that could be or was brought up against him was conviction of an offense that was more technical than Governor General after eleven years service in the is desirous of giving up his job and spending the remainder of his days in the less tropical but more genial atmosphere of the United The process of benevolent having now about reached its culminating or as near to it as this generation will ever there would seem to be no objection to those who are soldiers in time of war being allowed to be civilians in time of Admiral Bob Evans' visit to Salt Lake City was a very agreeable event to both visitor and There was little of anything of a political nature coming to the perhaps the nearest approach to it being the admiral's statement that if we could have had four instead of two battleships provided by congress this year we would have been second among the world's naval powers instead of Germany taking second place While this may be true as to the number of it is not understood to be so as to in which according to what ought to be good all easily stand next to Great |