Show To Dear Jlr Powers Dear Mr Powers I read your page and a half of carefully prepared cutely distorted figures in Sundays Sun-days Tribune and could not but admire the facility you have attained at givinsr honest figures a dishonest interpretation 4 I the art of deceiving is good politics you are a good politician And vice versa 3 I heard that you had mado a reputation for being slick oily and eely and now I have your own figures for it i Your righteous soul seemed to revolt at the fact that the old Mormon council was in the rumor business und by spasms of virtue made money out of it I perhaps did not occur to you that the present city council coun-cil is in the liquor business running more saloons nearly two t one than any Mormon Mor-mon council in the history of Salt Lake The city is a partner t every dram shop in tho corporation and draws out its fixed revenue with promptness and regularity V But what weighed heaviest on your honest soul was the fact that tho old city council ffUiing a reign of over a quarter of a century appropriated a few hnndrad dollars to celebrate the arrival in the desert of the iron horso of civilization I was a titan to jubilant and the old fogies were modern enough rejoice at a benefit The present mayor spent more money in preparing Liberty Park for a Fourth of July jamboree to give Prof Allen a chance to work up a little political prestige to the exclusion of foreign speakers than all the money that you could cite up against the Mormons during a reign of 40 years 4 The expense of entertaining the Rex party inthis city with clarets and champagnes cham-pagnes is unpaid and the city council will be asked to meet this expense by an appropriation appro-priation ne improve Liberty park or some other virtuous causeS cause-S 4 You proved too much You proved that the old council was honest and correct That wheu it spent the peoples money for wine it was charged to wine and the number num-ber of bottles etdown It did not pay out money to canvass the political complexion of the city and oharge ilrto the school census cen-sus I When it bought liquor it aid so 01 1 the records like honest men aro wont to do I i 4 You did not scrape up out of the musty past the record of a public meeting where a political loader acknowledged before his fellow citizens in abasement and shame that he compromised the city government govern-ment with gamblers nor where i was advocated that gambling should be made respectable re-spectable Youdidnot Und a passage i jtkt S a r usI 1 I r J which such a deadly sentiment as We should not be too good but just good enough was uttered You did not quote a public meeting as favoring the importation importa-tion of prostitutes as an inducement for more Liberals to come to town townWAX WAX WORKS |