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Show H "Wc .AWtf the Money." H "The Official Cry of the Ogden Administration." H I The motto of the present city administration K is, "We need the money." The conduct of the of- H ficials in the now notorious gambling cases not Bj only proves it but the oillcials themselves have H admitted it. And thereby hangs a tale. The K ! present administration will be up against it early Kf in the fall explaining their stewardship and there Hi must be something to take the curse off the mis- H( erablo fiasco the attempts thus far to secure the HK waterworks have proved. Their defense will be HH that the city has been given a good, business-like Hm administration and there has got to be either pub- H lie Improvements or money in the bank to prove Bff it. To that end "we need the money," and we HL do not scruple at dickering with the rovenue-pro- Hi ducing society outcasts to get it. "Wo need the H money." Hkhi tv i tv H! The hand of the administration was shown Hl in the preliminary maneuvers of the gambling Hl cases which Mrs. Corbett has been trying to get H heard for two weeks. The mayor openly admit- H ted, so the lady says, that he had entered into an H: agreement with the proprietors of various gam- K bling houses to the effect that so long as they HE paid their fines regularly and conducted games Hf! open alike to the public and police, they were to Hi i be given the freedom of tho city. The condition Hi J of affairs on the levee contributes to tho evidence Hf which bears out the lady, in her contention. But Hjfc the half has not been told. It remains for some Hj one that has been caught in the dragnet of Elec- He trie alley to tell of the agreement with the deni- H zens of the cribs. There would be nothing more ' startling than is found in many other cities where B expenses are high and funds are scarce, but the B . knowledge of these things would give the interest-H interest-H ' ed public something to think about. It would also Ht explain why the mayor parades the city's balance H sheet as an economic lesson. They need the mon- H) ey. Election time is coming on and something H must be done to distract public attention from H the waterworks. We are laying wires to succeed Hf ourselves as the reward of merit. We point with Hj pride to our record. Has not the city treasury f prospered? Who shall say we have not served H the city well? So for the present "We need the Hf money." Our campaign cry is get the dough. B Come up, everybody that is, can, has, will or H I wants to conduct a revenue producing business HJ on the shady side of morality and in defiance of I law, and we will give you a temporaiy license, Wk renewable every thirty days. Come one and all, HS and take a chance at civilized bush-whacking and H I dust so you cut it up with the city we will grant mj yu a franchise with stop-over privileges. "We H' need the money." We are up against a condition H' and we are looking for business. An empty city H ' treasuiy is worse than riding on the water wag- m on- "We need the money." V & : H In this connection it might bo wel' to remem- H.. her that the mighty quartette of moral-crusaders, H! Brothers Shurtliff, Agee and Stanford, are each and every one still amongst us, and though the echoes of their thunderous tones against playing shinney on Sunday still reverberate among the crags and peaks of the Wasatch, their peepstone has failed to catch even the faintest glimmer of the soiled coins that flow in a steady stream into the city treasurer. Not many moons agone these four agitators, backed by the committee of one hundred, (that sounds well, doesn't it), were out with scalping knife and tomahawk ready to lift the hair of any marble or ball playing desecrator of the Sabbath. But now now in the winter of our discontent, with only the gambling hells running wide open; only saloons with front doors, side doors, back doors, swinging ojpen on greased hinges from Sabbath morn to Bacchanalian eve; only the regulation quantity of, vice and immorality immoral-ity that makes merry the first day of the week from Hudson avenue to the Union "depot; only these and nothing more. No wonder the crusaders returned from the attack discouraged and disconsolate. dis-consolate. Nothin' doin'. No foemen worthy of their steel. Besides crusades are not popular, any more. What is the use of tilting at windmills wind-mills when you can hold a hot-air indignation meeting in the tabernacle for less money. Truth is never popular when wrong sits upon the throne. God save the city for, behold, the crusaders will not. And so, back to our muttons: "We need the money." |