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Show FOUR PER CKXT. In recommending that no reduction be made in the rate of city taxation, the committee on ways and means very properly submits an estimate of receipts and expenditures, so that ho who runs may read whether the rate is fair and just and uesessary or not. Taking the amount as a whole, an expenditure of $413,500 looks pretty large, but it would bo difficult to point out more than one or two items in which retrenchments coidd be made. The Herald of course will make odious comparison between past and present I expenses, since the object of tho Herald's Her-ald's existence anvwav is to whine, but when it is remembered that we have reorganized our police department, improved our fire department by the purchaso of useful apparatus and established es-tablished a health department, it will be conceded that these necessary improvements im-provements not only cost money but that they ara worth all they cost in increased in-creased safety to life and health and property. It may be difficult for moss-backs moss-backs of the Herald variety to perceive tho change that is coming over Salt Lake, but it is coming just tho same and in spite of them, and we must reckon with it. The items for power for sewers, street lighting, canals, cemetery, cem-etery, prison, claims and damages, parks, interest oa bonds, will hardly be conlcrftetl. It is a pity that the work on the st reels is so widely scattered as to show to the least advantage, but it was all urgent and what Is equally to the point, it bas nil" been clone. We have not seen the man who would openly charge crookedness iu connection connec-tion with it. The salary list strikes us as largo, and the engineering department depart-ment as very costly, but we cannot join the Herald in drawing insiduous comparisons com-parisons on general principles.. |