Show A FOREGONE CONCLUSION N NIt It was a foregone conclusion that the great retrenchment and reform administration would pass the nance giving the health officer an as assistant assistant Thus the taxpayers are to be required to pay two salaries s for work that has hns been done heretofore for one salary Two men man are to divide the work that one man has been doing ac acceptably If this is retrenchment and reform If this is a cutting down of expenses if this is an improvement in city government then a majority of those who voted for the American officials will shortly have cause to ra re r regret gret their action The Tho present health officer may be all that his admirers claim for him he may be in every respect a man If he is and we do not assert that he is not he has a curious way of demonstrating his capacity The health officers private pr vate practice cannot be very much larger larer now than it was when he accepted the position He is estopped by former experience in the office by pleading that he did not know how hew much work ork there was in it I If he had not felt that he could P vote ote enough time to the duties he should not haye have accepted the place And if he found that thai the work had so Increased since his former occupancy that he be could not do it alone and at atthe atthe atthe the same time do justice to his private patients he should have been fair nough enough to resign There are plenty plent of physicians ns who would willingly under undertake undertake undertake take to todo do all aU the work without an as assistant assIstant and do it well Among Dr Stewarts predecessors as health officer there were several several men who had large private practices fully as large as that over which Dr Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art has 1188 control They were forced to neglect this practice in order to look after the public health but they made the sacrifice with a patriotism as com corn commendable commendable as It was to them expensive It appears that there is no thought of patriotism now no desire to serve the public merely for the sake of serving the public nubile At whatever cost to the taxpayers the supporters of the American n party must be taken care re of If the pO of Salt Lake City are not heartily sick of their bargain long before Mayor Maor Thompsons term expires it will be one no of or the unexplainable mysteries of poll poli politics tics |