Show MAKING THEn THEM LIKE IT Recently a writer of ability has been telling in the Saturday Evening Post Pos o t toC of oC the operations of or a grafting political gang In some unnamed city city presumably ably PIttsburg or Philadelphia And the stories read like 1110 a page out of or tho the history of Salt Lake There Is a vcr very suggestive note inthe In Inthe Inthe the statement of ot the big boss that he robbed the people In the matter o of ot f water He said there thero was a n howl on the part of or tho the taxpayers taxpayer s when the contracts were made hu hut but t when the tho people saw the little of old d water flowing lowIng out of or their the they didn't grumble That Is human nature nature nature-In In Salt Lal Lake e as ever everywhere where else Two years rears ago tho the people of ot this I city wanted water and street paving pavin 5 as as thc they do now As the they always s g will But tho they had not then been beet t convinced that tho part party bosses who were busy rifling the treasury were not going to either provide e water o or r pave the streets according to promise e eow Now ow the they see the West Yest Side and lh the I still sUIl uncompleted sewer The They se see sec e water rates raised and supply y diminished The They see paving pa doubled double d in cost and Utah material refused t to u the people who pa pay the bills In the trio Evening Post stories the th grafting bosses charged twice as mu much muchas h t as the fair Calr rate for the work Thu Then Thu the they cut the receipts in two givin giving L one half to tho trio contractors and th ih the theother other half halt to the tho bosses who engineered en cn- trio the deal eal And the people looking at lh the e water running from their faucets faucet didn't have o the heart to protest Human nature Is pretty much tit the e same Mme In fiction and In Salt Lake Lako |