| Show j Our City Council Under the above head this department depart-ment of the Tribune in Sundays issue indulges in some remarks that are not at all complimentary to the members of our present municipal government The superior intelligence and wonderful wonder-ful advancement in the lore of city governments professed by the writer seems to be a mere matter of coarse and probably arises from his extended experience in such matters t 1 The occasion which called forth the abuse of the present city government I and the denunciation of past councils was the proposition of T A Grant made at the last session of the Council to number the houses in the city That the numbering of the houses would be a great public convenience it seems to us everyone will concede but there has as yet been nothing said or done by the City Council that warrants their denunciation de-nunciation as be UR behind the times half a century or being incompetent to manage the affairs of Ogden City it may be that cities of 8000 inhabitants of fifty years ago posessed all the modern conVemepcws such as water electric light street railways rail-ways etc that Ogden possesses at the I present time it may be that the municipal muni-cipal governments that controlled the affairs of cities the size of Ogden in 1536 were composed of men who held ideas much more modern than the ideas held by our city fathers it is quire possible that they listened to the advice of cranky newspaper writers like this department de-partment and bonded the city increased in-creased the burden of taxation and furnished fur-nished the people with modern conveniences con-veniences until the taxpayers fairly groaned under the weight ofthe assessment assess-ment rolls but that does not a gue that the past and present councils of Ogden City are incompetent or antiquated an-tiquated in their methods of government govern-ment and all the denunciation and abuse that this department can heap upon the city officials will not be likely to convince the majority of the taxpayers tax-payers of Ogden that their conservative and intelligent officials should be shelved and the reins of the city government govern-ment handed over to a set of men who would conform lfo its ideas of progression pro-gression who would force the progressive progres-sive ideas of the ages upon them at the expense of the public morals and private pri-vate virtues and bleed the property owners by all the ingenious methods that modern trickery bas devised The progression of Ogden has been conservative conser-vative steady and sure the government govern-ment of the city has been conducted on that conservative basis that ensures stability the city officers have carefully care-fully guarded the interests of their constituents con-stituents and Ogden now finds herself on the highway to permanent prosperity pros-perity with light taxation and steadily advancing and substantial public improvements Im-provements Still because the proposition proposi-tion to number the houses of the city is i referred to the committee on finance instead in-stead of being adopted in open council without any previous ccnideraiou a cranky writer denounces the past and present governments as being incompetent incom-petent to manage the affairs of the city and advocates a cnange Everything considered however his article is not strange but characteristic and only shows the writer up in his proper light |
