Show PLATFORM GEMS AND TRUTH Elsewhere In this issue is presented a statement of ot the finances which may be accepted as authentic It was not ot furnished by the auditor who has hIlS developed a sudden aversion to publicity ty but It Is accurate and full of ot Information Information information mation for tor the taxpayers of Salt Lake LakeIt It disproves completely the pleasant picture the administration platform has drawn of the financial condi condition condition condition tion and It explains perfectly why w y no official statements have been made from the auditors since June 30 Nor do these figures with their prom promise promIse promise ise of ot an empty treasury at the end of ot the year set forth all the possibilities of ot the situation Some very heavy ac accounts accounts accounts counts for tor paving and other expenses are not included in the summary se secured secured secured cured by The Herald so the overdrafts tell only part of the story The exhibit is painful to contemplate contemplate contemplate plate but any exhibit of ot this adminis administration from Sheets and Thompson up and down lacks the qualities that in inspire Inspire inspire spire joy and the people might as well get ready to confront the tho facts When Thompson took office he found a comfortable com comfortable comfortable balance In n the general fund funda and a d close to a million in the water bond fund In the tent one months that have l ave elapsed since then the gen general general general eral fund has been brought to an over overdraft overdraft overdraft draft of ot the bond money has nearly all been spent the street fund has been depleted by transferring Its money to the general fund f nd so Pat Moran could be paid for tor his work on the share of ot paving paring costs In spite of this showing one of the gems of ot the American city eft platform says p We Ve have paved the tha streets built sidewalks put in in sewers and though this has cost money there is ample showing for the money expended and the finances are In better condition condi condition condition tion than when the American party took charge Comparing the facts as shown In the red ink figures and the platform quoted ed d the conclusion is inevitable that the makers of the platform were suffering from financial strabismus or myopia or something else that affected their vision Of Ot course there could have been no Intention to deceive the public that would be impossible in the Americans but there certainly was wasa a desire to economize in the truth which Is the only thing the Ameri Amerl Americans Americans cans ever attempt to economize |