Show p MORAN BEAUTIFIER At t the top of the column surround surrounded ed by reading matter of a most lauda laudatory laudatory laudatory tory nature conspicuously illustrated with fine halftone engravings an American newspaper recounts with megaphone emphasis the achievements of ot P J Moran 1 contractor and beau beautifier tiller of oC Salt Lake City It is a very fine tribute to a most influential mem member member member ber of oC the th present city administration and it is only fair to presume that it Is printed without the usual charge for advertising matter in recognition of Mr Ir Morans services to the party past present and expected The tribute however Is Incomplete In detail It lacks the ornate elaboration elaboration tion the symmetry and precision which would make It perfect It omits for Instance the neatness of the job by which Mr Moran induced the Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean city council to pay him I Ifor for plastering the Big Cottonwood con conduit conduit duit In order that it might hold water Tobe To be sure the conduit would not have needed plastering It if It had bad been built according to the specifications the plaster was a superfluity and the a premium on Imperfect work but it takes genius s of a peculiar kind kinc to get money for Imperfections anc and that Is what Patrick did Again the biography should have re recounted recounted recounted counted the history of or the contract business In Salt Lake the which gave Moran a monopoly in such work as he chooses to do for this ad administration ministration and at his own price It should have shown why Mr lIr Moran is usually Introduced to strangers as the thema mayor ma or and city council although he holds no official title and it should have included the marvelous tale ol ola ot of ota ofa a power which enables the contractor to foretell with absolute certainty what the administration will and will not do whenever any emergency affect affecting affectIng affecting ing public work arises Mr tr Moran has indeed been a great beautifier of ot Salt Lake He has illuminated illuminated illuminated political methods and adorned the annals of ot councils He has fur furnished furnished fished the tIle city with a beautiful red ink overdraft the like ilke of which has never neer been known here before Silent Inscrutable affable and persistent he has moved with the silent footfall of the mole and the energy of the beaver If It he has overlooked any of the money that was once in the city treasury It has not been his fault or r the fault of or his American friends He holds warrants enough now to make him comfortable comfortable the rest r st of his days anc and he has an eye out for more of the same sort Incidentally It may ma be mentioned that the public work under Morans control gives him the privilege of em employing employing large numbers number of ot workmen whose votes may m may be convenient on elec election election election tion day da Of Ot course this has nothing to do with the laudation of Moran at a critical time In the campaign No genuine would ever think of such sucha a thing tiling as Morans in poli poll politics politics tics but still It Is a comfort to them to think that if any undue influence does happen to get In Its work on election day they the will not suffer at Morans hands Not much Come Corne to think about It the Moran arrangement Is as fine a circle as could be designed fine that is for everybody but the taxpayers Moran gets all the tho American contracts He employs s i I many voters He gets paid for his york on a liberal scale and has a sate safe margin for campaign contributions contributions contributions If by a rare chance he should be asked for campaign funds to help helpa a patriotic cause it would be perfect perfectly ly l natural for him to dig up for the Americans Thus everybody but the taxpayer Is happy It costs Moran nothing It costs the Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans nothing g and yet the campaign funds are forthcoming Of course there is a moral In such sucha a beautiful tale The tax notices show that much But It Is such a beautiful I ful Zul moral so 50 uplifting for the over overdraft overdraft overdraft draft so perfect In its workings so 50 satisfactory for Moran and the Americans that It ought really to have been Included In the Illustrated biographical eulogy |