Show THE GOVEHXOR5 PROPOSITION t The appropriation recommended by the Gpvernpr for the building a wing of the Capitol although it invoves the Issue of bonds for the purpose is in the public interest and deserves favorable favor-able consideration from the Legislature IL is probable however that It will not receive the sanction of the majority of the members It is made by aDemocratic Governor and the policy of the Republicans in both Houses of the Assembly appears to be to ignore or supercede as far as possible anything important that comes from a Democratic source This has been exhibited in the shelving of several sev-eral bills and their substitution by others on this purely partisan pretext The course pursued on the incomplete election bill and the shelving of a complete com-plete and practical election measure is a case in point There are also a number of members from the outlying districts who seem to regard with jealousy akin to spite anything that has the appearance of building up Salt Lake City They seem to ignore the idea entirely that this is the capital of the territory and that the whole people of Utah are < din d-in its growth Also that the increase of its property values means greater revenue to the ttfritory < and more money for the less populous parts of Utah in territorial and school expenditures expendi-tures The bonding of the territory is not a popular idea and when that is coupled coup-led with the feeling against appropriations appropria-tions for Salt Lake City it is likely to be viewed with more than ordinary aversion And yet it is shown to be a good investment in-vestment Utah needs a state Capitol It is not proposed to build it at once One wing only suitable for legislative halls and needful public purposes is talked of at present We have to payout pay-out considerable money for rent for these purposes and will have to pay more as soon as the territory throws off its gyves and puts on the robes of state sovereignty unless the state has some buildings of its own The employment which the building of the wing world furnish to idle and needy persons would be a great boon to thenr and a saving in its way for it would provide labor instead of charity and fair remuneration instead of free soup and the work could be done for much less now than it will c stn a year more Although The Herald desires to seethe see-the territory as free as possible from debt it cannot be blind to the condition condi-tion of public affairs nor fail to see in proposition of the Governor a public pub-lic need that can best and easiest be supplied in the manner he suggests And if the majority of the Legislature can put away patty and Jocal motives and havc regard jjplely for the general welfare and the public necessity they will build up a more enduring reputation reputa-tion by devoting public money to a needful public purpose than by spending spend-ing it In aid of privSte enterprise for which they have no real warrant in constitutional law Let us have the wing |