Salt Lake Herald | 1900-10-31 | Page 4 | Salt Lake's Issue

SALT LAKES ISSUE THE TIIE ONE OXE QUESTION of oi great importance LOCALLY s to be determined at the polls next Tuesday is whether the reckless extravagance that has Isis looted the city treasury shall also al o be made the policy in county affair affairs The subject is beyond any political politic l lines it affects aff the tax taxpayers taxpayers payers pay of Salt Lake county coun y irrespective pf QI party affiliations and it j t will ill continue to affect 1 Jm ieni fOr four years to conic come co ue They The have seen the Republicans in control of city affairs for less than a acal cat cal yet vet iti in that short time they have seen an overdraft accumulated amounting to more than an m increase of expenses e in ill every department with nothing to show for it t in the th way of returns an exhausted general fund add a treasury that will have to be lIe strengthened by the tue sale of city property at a sacrifice to meet interest obligations on Jan i All of the tile taxes to be collected during November have al already already ready been spent and the city will start the he year with conditions that are arc alarming yet the extravagance goes on and there it ib b no nosi sign si p oi of the retrenchment that must be instituted at once if the city is to maintain its credit without confiscation of property by bv heavy taxes t These conditions are arc not exaggerated they arc are set forth in in a statement by the Republican leader ader h in the council in in unmistakable terms If the tile taxpayers want that kind of a government g in county affairs they will vote yote for the Republican county candidates can if they want wanta a clean economical safe administration of the s finances such as they the have had under Democratic Deino commission commis they will vote for the Democratic nominees The people of this county have already shown slown their ability a to vote for their own interests and they will do it again ab tl next Tuesday by electing the tile Democratic tic county CO ticket 1 i