Show I jIVE INCOME Cities should b be IX it required to live within their heir There should be bo bea boa a law Ia in I st state nv ne there is in most tales states requiring II ach each department of fit each city to make mak its estimate at the Ole beginning of or the year ear ar and then hold It H Ito 4 to o within the he ho I lon Ion which I is I b based on those thoS estimates That should be bo d done ne In Salt Sail Lake The present administration of ot this city raised the taxes taxes one mill and anti then proceeded with expenditures expenditures that will VII certainly result in a deficit of or nearly or quite a quarter million dollars The Thee levy e will have to The ie H- H raised again at athe atthe th he the end of the lie pr present enl fiscal year of oC couise coulse Or 01 el else e then there will be n a load of or this years year's indebtedness that will hang hang- over the heads of oC the to be elected next November ov Th The burdens made maJe b by one ono group of officers will have ha t to be carried by their successors f I IThe The thing is unfair In el e every wa way The people expect a n. city administration tion lion to live within its Income and they should not nol be disappointed Every hu business house do llo the same and anti is required to do so Every department department de tIe- of or a a commercial house must keep keel within the limits of or Its allow allow- ance Every man In his personal affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs airs must spend spent no more mono than his Income Cities are no exception to the rule and if IC time the they violate that sound principle of prudence they will suffer by hy It Salt SaU Lake Is suffering because the present resent administration has disregarded disregard disregard- ed the lie es essentially sensible rule rule rule-a a rule that no nu prudent business man will sili ever permit himself to violate lol The burden bUlden tails falls upon the people The They have hn no means of or knowing unless such a n las lawIs law la Is s enforced how deeply their heir public servants are arc running them into debt Anti And they have a right to know They have lave a right to forbid the making o or of any debt is no justification fo for such a condition i. Evel Every department should know a at the tho beginning of or the year ear what Its c expenditures must be and its allowance should bo be made mode to cover covel that If possible If IC not then the lie expenditures should be he curtailed The practice of oC making debts with a lavish blindness for Cor some one else ese t to topa pa pay Is ruinous and anti and can cun not bo ho too strongly condemned |