Show CONSERVATISM IS BEST Dishonesty in the municipal administration administra-tion is not charged against the Peoples party by the Liberal organization Reckless Reck-less and blatherskites may talk about the misappropriation of funds but the Liberals as a party concede that the the Peoples officials are personally honest Incompetency is sometimes alleged but that is meaningless and ridiculous in view of the fact that the municipal government govern-ment is composed of foremost citizens who have by their own efforts achieved what will be conceded to be fair success in life The one accusation laid at the door of the Peoples municipal government on which the Liberals lay greatest stress is the alleged al-leged lack of enterprise the want of progress pro-gress Day after day aud all the time the changes are rung on this and the officials are denounced as mossbacks and fogies and as being behind the age The unpaved streets are pointed at as evidence of the spirit of tmprogressiveness which characterizes charac-terizes the administration A man asks for the laying of a water main to his premises prem-ises and denounces the Peoples party because be-cause his request is not complied with immediately There are no street lamps in the outskirts and the Peoples party is scored on account of the darkness Certain districts rarely see a policeman po-liceman and the Peoples city council is condemned for not supplying supply-ing the deficiency Because the streets are not paved the water mains and gas lights are not on every block and policemen are not at hand in all quarters the Liberals say the People should go and the former be installed in-stalled in power The Liberal campaign promise is that all the deficiencies complained com-plained of shall be supplied if the voters will put that party in control of things To the intelligent and thoughtful the Liberal argument is the best that can be advanced for keeping the People in It being admitted that the public money has been honestly expended and wisely so as a rule to claim that more should have been done that we have not been sufficiently suffi-ciently progressive is to say that more money should have been spent and more improvements im-provements made There arc two ways for a municipal corporation to get money One is by taxation and the other is by borrowing borrow-ing It is pretty well understood that the council has kept very nearly up to the legal limit in tho matter of borrowing Long before be-fore the improvements already authorized and undertaken have been completed the limit of the city debt will be reached and no more money can be lawfully I borrowed by the corporation Then the only resource will be taxation Are the 1 propertyowners ready to say that they are willing to pay into the municipal coffers three or four times what they are now paying pay-ing in order that Salt Lake may at once enjoy all the conveniences and improvements improve-ments which old rich and populous cities have Are the men who pay the taxes willing to treble their contributions that there may be three times the number of policemen patrolling the streets that the streets may be immediately paved and mad into thoroughfares equal to those of rich i New York and Philadelphia where there are thirtyfive or forty people for everyone I every-one here and a thousand dollars for every dollar in Salt Lake The Liberals Bay they will extend the gas over the entire city which means that they will multiply thejgas tills by four and tho tax bills in proportion They will at once lay the water mains in every street and to do it must make it impossible for hundreds of peor people to pay the exorbitant taxes by which the money must be raised The policy of the Peoples party has not been to oppose or retard improvement improve-ment but to move ahead just as fast as was consistent with the necessities rand the abilities of the community The taxation has been kept at a rate which the propertyowners could endure en-dure without feeling that they were oppressed op-pressed and made to suffer needlessly The substantial thoughtful men the men who own the property and on whom the burden must always rest are in perfect harmony with the Peoples policy and the more they think of what the Liberal promises mean the more certain they are to vote for a continuance con-tinuance of the system which makes improvements im-provements without inflicting hardships |