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Show TRUTH. 6 TRUTH Count Boni and Countess Anna de can be taxed Castellane have a son, born Tuesday. Issued Weekly by But if Count Boni doesn't let up on his TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. spending money the kid will never be and 12 Central Block, West Seeond South the heir to his parents property. Street, Salt Lake City. 11 and Manager. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor Entered at the postofflee st Salt Lake City, Utah, for transmission through the mails as second-cla- SALT matter. ss LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 19, 1902. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION t ONE TEAR (in advance) S2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTIIS 75 Die Zit, a Vienna newspaper, declares the United States on the verge of an economic and financial crisis. All of which shows the truth of the adage: Go away from home to learn news. Attorney-Genera- Knox says he l has no legal evidence of- - the existence of a beef trust. All of which shows Postmasters sending subscriptions to Tbuth Knox does may retain 25 per cent of subscription price that Mrs. Attorney-General ; as commission. If the paper is not desired beyond the date notl- -' subscribed for the publication should be fled by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. the marketing. The speech of David B. Hill to the Jefferson Democrats of New York City DISCONTINUANCES. last Monday evening lacked a great Remember that the publisher must be notified deal of having the fire of Wattersons by letter when a subscriber wishes his In be arrears must all paper stopped; paid Washington address. Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Tbuth Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Pub-xjshz- ho Before handing down legal opinions in the future City Attorney Nye had better consult the editor of the Deseret News and obtain his concurrence in the conclusions arrived at. Mr. Nye has lived long enough to know that the editor of a newspaper often knows, or thinks he knows, more about law than men who have made a life study of that exact science; more about engineering than a professional engineer; more about medicine and surgery than a physician or a surgeon, in short more about everything than anybody and everybody else and therefore should be consulted on all possible occasions. so-call- ed butchers advertisement says there is art in cutting meat. Not so. The art lies in the ability to get meat to cut. A MUNICIPAL FINANCES. There is a large amount of sound sense and judgment in Councilman Robertsons article on the financial position of this city which appeared in last Sundays Tribune. A condition is assuredly coming when it will require great financial ability to carry the municipality over the crisis. Anyone who will take the trouble to investigate the acts of the administrations for the past four or five years cannot justly charge extravagance in the handling of the general fund. On the contrary, the administration of the past three years might fairly be taxed with penuriousness in almost every department. This applies more forcibly to the street, poremind would lice and fire departments, which have Mayor ThompTruth n been held down to a point far below efson of his pledge that and the salaries prevailing in John E. Dooly would not be chairman ficiency, all the departments are very muchbe-loof the board of public works after Janwhat can be termed fair living " uary 1. Mr. Dooly did his part by wages. tendering his resignation and it has The only extravagance with which been up to the mayor for three months to accept it and appoint his successor. the administration of the past 21 years The police muddle which has blocked the way of municipal changes for months is not a sufficient excuse for ignoring pledges. anti-electio- w , Bud yard Kipling is the guest of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa. If the world gets out of plumb now it will be easy to tell why. Labor Journal. This is the first intimation of the passing of Kipling that has appeared in print. It must, however, be true, for how could the writer of The Light That Failed be entertained by Rhodes until he too had penetrated the shadows? We may be in error about this, and if so stand ready to be corrected, but really it appears to Truth as if the country could not survive the retireMiles, comment of Lieutenant-Genera- l Coling so soon after the retirement of onel Bill Glasmann. A RURAL exchange chronicles the birth of a boy to .Mr. and Mrs. Alan Roche, of Corinne, and adds: This is the fourth son without a break. The happy parents are to be congratulated on receiving their children undamaged. was in the expenditure of may be absolutely the $250,000 from the bonds issued for the improvement of the water system. A large proportion of that sum was ex- pended very unwisely and in a way which amounted to a breach of faith with the taxpayers, who were assured before they voted for the bond issue that the money would be spent for certain improvements which were specified and to which the administration pledged itself. Those pled ges were ignored and the money was expended in making improvements to fhe system which were not contemplated, and which, as in the case of the City creek pipe line, were not really needed, while the dredging of the Jordan and the im- Utah lake, which would Erovements at relief, were abandoned. of faith was committed at This breach of Chairman Dooly of the the instance board of public works, who found it more pleasing to himself and more profitable the contractors whom he favored to do other kinds of work and to do it in the most extravagant manner, over the protests of former city engineer F. C. Kelsey, and against the advice of every competent engineer who was consulted. Dooly, however, was in the saddle, and exercised some mysterious power which the administration seemed powerless to resist. Aside from that the citys affairs were conducted with almost too much economy for the public good. Tim necessary. a more equitable third remedy, that valuation be put on the property of large corporations, will appeal to tlm people more strongly than increasing the tax levy. The assessments of tiic street car company, the Bell Telephone company, and the railroad companies should be at least trebled. The assessment of the street car company of rmir $370,664 is ridiculous. The wmpany sold bonds to the amount of $4 000 (HKl secured by a mortgage on its property' which is a very good indication that it is worth much more than the amount at which it is assessed. The telephone companys assessment of $101,067 is as much out of proportion as the street car companys, and the railroads are let off with an equally low assessment. The banks assessments might also be raised very considerably without any violence being done to justice. ft ft It seems to Truth that the merchants were pretty highly assessed last year. There is certainly no such glaring inaccuracies in regard to them as exist in the cases of the corporations above mentionee; The Z. C. M. I. wa8 assessed for merchandise at $389 440 more than both the then existing street railways combined. The Walker Drv Goods Co. and F. Auerbach & Brother were also assessed at very respectable figures, but it does seem that the Z. C. M. I. got the worst of the deal, and as ft ft compared with the corporations who the merchants generThe deplorable state of the general enjoy monopolies worst of ally got vastly-thwhile the fund was in a great measure brought small property owners and it,the masses about, as Mr. Robertson says, by the of the people paid vastly more than sudden growth of the city and the de- their equitable share of the burden of mand for public improvements. The taxation. ft ft terrible drain on the treasury of $116,-40- 0 Councilman Robertsons other annually (al&ost 75 per cent, of the for revenue from the tax levy) was a tremerging the city and county mendous factor in depleting the general governments as a means of effecting a fund, but it is a factor which cannot be big saving in expenditures; while not got rid of. It is an obligation which new, is meritorious. very It has been must be met, and which there is no little exploited, but it should be caregetting away from. considered. fully Such a merger would ft ft save large sums in expense without That more money must be raised to run the city next year is a too apparent impairing the efficiency of the public service. The plan is successfully opefact. The three ways pointed out by rand in San Francisco and elsewhere, Mr. Robertson for meeting the increas- and there is no valid reason why it ing expenditures are almost the only could not be done here. The taxpayers ones feasible, and each might be adop- should carefully ponder these things matters for the lightening of ted in a measure. The first, raising ad their burden in tangible shape before the tax levy, will not meet with public the next legislature meets. he It may favor, although some slight advance taken as a certainty that Salt Lake City is going to grow mightily during the next few years, and that the of the municipal government will proportionately increase. CHINESE AND JAPANESE MATTING. We have the largest stock of the above ever brought into Utah, All the latest designs From 25 cents to 60 cents Per Yard. e call special attention to our Royal Chinese Matting, 40 cents to 45 cents Per Yard. This is unexcelled for wearing qualities, H. DINWOODEV FUR.NITVRE CO. e sug-gestio- n ex-pen- ses ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL CHANGES. There are soon to be sweeping changes at St Marks hospital and it is generally believed the shaking up has not come any too soon. For a long time there has been great friction between the reverend gentlemen who control the institution and the physicians and surgeons on the staff. This is generally the case when a hospital is controlled by churchmen and St. Marks is no exception to the rule. From a financial standpoint the Rev. D. Douglas Wallace, who has had charge of the institution for some years has worked wonders. By good business management and .hard work he has pulled it nearly out of the financial difficulties by which it was burdened and that way he has been of great service to the hospital Mr. Wallace, however, is very unpopular with the patrons of the hospital and also with many of the employes. He is lacking in tact and has very little regard for the feelings of friends of the patients and less for those of the nurses and other employes whose treatment can be designated as little less than brutal. |