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Show MUNICIPAL AllUSES. S;ilt Lake City is a village hamlet at present, ' when compared with New York or even Baltimore. We in Zion hold up our hands in holy horror when called upon to consider the abuse? growing out of the municipal election and administrations in these cities. Wi tako it for granted that certain - phase? of total depravity in connection with the administration of municipal affaire in many of our large cities are inevltabh if not legitimate. Change of parties air.! consequent chaugo of administration bring relief. The municipal carcass whether labeled .."Democratic," "Republican," "Re-publican," Peoplo's" or "Liberal," attract at-tract the vultures as of old. The nois; "workers" among the "outs" are the "ringsters" of the "ins" and parce out the spoils and offices among them selves and their strikers. Once it power they mako haste to entrencl themselves by broaches of trust and as sumo .to be masters of the situatio rather than servants of the people. The North American Review for Jim contains a trenchant article on "Crimi nal Politics," by K. L. Godkin, editor o the New York Evening Post. The a; plication of his subject is to the nuiii cipal government of New York city And while that city is the "biggei, toad" in the pool of "Criminal Poli tics," it may be well to reflect even it this remote corner of the world, tha the sombre picture drawn by Mr. God kin's truthful haud,may,in a small way just as well apply to many an infun municipality. Speaking of the observa tion and experience of the New Yorl ocr,-he Fays: "Every experienc. of the municipality satisfies him that h is living in a world of favor and not o law. He hears that large sums o money are votedcvery year for thi cleaning of the streets, but he sees thai they are not cleaned. He hears that 1 is forbidden to throw out dirt and allies into the highway, but he sees that al his neighbors do it with impunity.- lie hears that gambling houses and house, of prostitution are forbidden, but he sees thorn doing a roaring trade all around him. Ho hears that it la a crime to keep a liquor saloon open on Suuday, but ho finds the ono ho frequents is as accessible on Sunday as on any other day. He hears that licenses to sol. liquor should bo granted only to persons per-sons of good charaoter, but he sees that the greatest scoundrels In his neighborhood neighbor-hood get them as readily as any one else." The remedy for thesb and kindred evils, in Mr. Godkins' judgment, is for the honest and well-disposed men in a municipality, without distinction o:' party, to unite at the primary meeting!-aud meeting!-aud polls, anil carefully select for municipal mu-nicipal olllcers such men as will accept important positions as trusts to bo sacredly sa-credly held for others and not as spoils to bo divided among thieves. |