Show THE PUBLIC BBILUJNG I The citizens ana taxpayers of this city and county should rise in their majesty and demand that work be resumed and at once on the joint public building They should demand this in the interest of progress pro-gress anti m the interest of the laboring classes They should demand it as thoy would demand the fulfillment of any other contract entered into between the authori I tics and the people The officials of the county nnti those of the city are under amoral I a-moral if not a legal obligation to proceed with the building By both governments thestructuro has beer authorized and approved ap-proved and in public mass meeting thp people have expressed themselves on I the subject not only endorsing the scheme but declaring in favor of its immediate execution Bad faith with the public has been shown by the mayor and city government govern-ment who have for many months stolidly ignored and brazenly defied the people The time has now come for the communityxo demand that its wishes bo I complied with and its orders obeyed The people who pay the taxes are not interested inter-ested in a petty political quarrel between L the mayor and an architect The taxpayers taxpay-ers dont care whether the architect voted for or against the present city government govern-ment but tbe people do insist that no such trifling incident shall bo biI made to stand between them and I the erection of a public building which has been authorized agreed upon and ordered l and which all admit is absolutely needed It seems so childish that everybody every-body is surprised if not disgusted that grown men presumed to possess ordinary intelligence should place themselves in the contemptible attitude in which the mayor and councilmen are posing over this building build-ing It is positively babyish But the people demand that the nonsense shall cease and the public building be proceeded pro-ceeded with at once The city is prof idle men who are willing and eager to work This fact has been demonstrated the present I pres-ent week when in two days over five hundred hun-dred men applied at one place for employment employ-ment at S3 per day In a little while many of the buildings nov in course of nstruction will be finished and the ranks of idle men will be greatly lengthened We have invited these laborers to come have almost enticed en-ticed them hither and there is more or less of a moral obligation to look out for their i welfare Again we are telling the world how we are progressing how much building wear we-ar doing how much money we are spending k spend-ing for improvements and all the while the F1 countyofficials are jammed and crammed into rookery forty years old and the city hall is the same old structure that was erected a quarter of a century ago when Salt Lake was a quiet easygoing village containing a few thousand population and thinking so little about a boom that the word with its present meaning had not been invented When the governments are so slow and j nonprogressive what kind of an impression t impres-sion w Salt Lake create Last spring without authority and for no other reason the public believes than I because the architect had voted for his opponent op-ponent the mayor stopped work on the I I building An indignant public without regard re-gard to party or politics ordered the work to proceed The bed for the foundation was laid and the labor was again discon tinned the architect having failed to j apologize apolo-gize for voting as he pleased Next week another mass meeting will b6 held when another and more emphatic expression of the pUblic will should be given and the t mayor and councilmen be told that there I must bb no connection between the politics i I of individuals and public improvement I I |