Show SPLENDID WORK FOR SALT LAKE CITY It is a good American year because the opposition has deserved defeat and because the American party has earned a triumph It has done splendid work for Salt Lake City In spite of efforts to decry de decry decry cry the magnificent work done by the American party administration in Salt Lake the fact remains that this party has done that work and the work is here for everyone to see From the Salt Lake Trib Tribune Tribune Tribune une yesterday morning Let us see what the work is that the Tribune has done in the five years that it has controlled the tho city government of Salt Lake LakeIt It has raised tho the tax levy three and one mills milla This money has been bean spent in maintaining the city government or it has bas been stolen If it has been spent in maintenance of the government it is a sample of ex extravagance or mismanagement that ought to send it to oblivion If it has not been spent apont in that way it has been stolen and tl the e men that stole it I ought to be on their way to the state prison This increase in tax levy cannot be explained by an increase of only I 37 87 per cent in population It cannot be he explained by the tins statement that it went into city improvements ments because pity improvements are paid for forby forby forby by abutting property owners in the tha way of special taxes and in addition I to paying for improvement they pay tb the expense of the eity engineers j office in those special taxes and they pay the cost oo t of the inspection impaction by bythe bythe bythe the inspectors in the employ of the board beard of public workers as they j are most mo t fittingly dubbed by John Connelly one of the heavy taxpayers of Salt Lake I The Tribune city government has bas done splendid work in in the water vater I department wo we presume It has made a profit of per cent c nt on the water that thet it distributes to the tha property owners It hae has made ma that profit of I per cent from those who pay the flat rate for water how much it has i imade made from those thoe who buy water by meter nobody can tell you because they dont know even in the water department They have insisted upon this I profit in spite of the fact that the deed to every foot of property in Salt Lake carries with it the right to a water supply at coat cost And when that was allowed to lapse there was a covenant between the city government I and the people that the profit from the water department dep should be spent I in improving the service And that is not done dOD because every evary improvement in tire tIle service has either been paid by b the private property owner or came out of the bond issue which the children of the present property owners will have to pay The city government has done splendid work for Salt Lake City by increasing the indebtedness for every day of the five years I that it has been in power It induced the people to vote a Ii bonds issue i ue by the promise that the general tax levy should not be increased and I this year it broke that solemn pledge to the t people by adding two mills to the levy It made its promises to various sections of oi the city that the j money mOley voted should be used for the th purposes which were wore outlined It i adopted a Ii memorial to the tho people previous to that bond issue ira ue promising this and that memorial was signed by the present lue nt mayor John S Bran Brans Bransford Branford ford And when this thi association of grafters wanted to spend the money for or I Iother other purposes it secured an opinion from the present pre ut city attorney Har liar Harper Harper per J Dininny that the tho promise was not an official one and that it was waa not binding upon the city council Dininny knew and Mil life bo bosses es knew that it was a moral obligation if it was not a legal one but it made mado no difference The money was vm diverted to other uses The Tribune city government has haa done splendid work for Salt Lake City by taking the money mODey from special taxes that were paid in for city improvement money that came from the abutting property owners and has bas diverted it to other uses Then when the contractors wanted their money they were given g scrip That scrip is hawked to the banks hanD and it draws interest t which the people of Salt Lake must pay There is ia over of that scrip out at the present time and it is a lien against every overy dollars worth of property in the city It is a liability against the tb abutting property which had Iad paid its iti quota and it is also a liability against prop property property property erty elsewhere in the city that has not had even the watershed system of benefits The Tribune city government has done splendid work for Salt Lake City by exceeding its iti budget already this year And it has added to it in outstanding warrants that must be he paid and because of this thia the American city administration hoe has earned a triumph The Tribune city administration has lias done splendid work for Salt Lake City by putting heelers on the payroll in every department of the city government The expense of most moat departments of the city has doubled and the amount paid out for salaries to city ci y has haa almost doubled Since the Republican city administration of Eara Ezra Thompson the tho salary roll of the tho city employee has increased a year And that is it in salaries i alon al alone and does do not cover the tho increased cost of maintenance which is even oven woree than thap showing in salaries The Tribune Tribuna city government has lias done splendid work for Salt Lake City by mulcting the business s men in every possible pos ible way In the til last two years year has lulS been added to the amount which the tle merchants are compelled to pay pa for the privilege of doing business busine in the city eity Evory Every license e tax tas that they were paying was increased and new ways of making them come across were devised dC This year the amount which hiell the mer merchants merchants chants must pay totals about according to the tIle statement by the Tribune license collector and he has ha the assurance to be proud of it The Tribune city government has done splendid work for Salt Lake Lab City by spending each year several hundred thousand dollars donars more than the income of the die city Some people may ask how they could do that It Itis Itis Itis is very simple Each year they tb y add to the amount of outstanding war warrants warrants warrants rants which must be carried over into the next fiscal year Each year they issue more scrip to the contractors and take the money which comes in from special taxes and divert it to other purposes In 1003 1008 the people voted in bonds for certain purposes es The money was diverted to other uses U and many man of the things for which this money was voted have never been dene done and they never will win be done The Tribune city government has done splendid work for Salt Lake City OitT by adding ad ing to the tho licenses licensee for plumbers for for every vocation or moans means of livelihood in the city that they could get Even after swelling the income of the city government go by every possible means they have exceeded that income each year And then they pretend not to understand how they could rob the city of 1000 a day It is not only ridiculous but it is impertinent because they proceed on the assumption that their grafting and md other othor deviltry has haa been covered up Ui The Tribune city government has bas done splendid work for Salt Lake City by grafting from the gamblers of Salt Lake L ke since the last city eity election There are somo sorno strong rumors where that has gone And in addition to that many of the tho of Salt Lake have paid 50 a month each for some months and there are some strong ideas among the tho people on the inside as to where this tills money has gone Nobody be believes Heves that this money went to tile the little grafters grafter and everybody is reason reasonably reasonably reasonably ably sure that it went to the circle that is in control of the party and that sits in the tho Tribune office o The Tribune has done splendid work for Salt Lake City by setting up a howl each time that retail liquor are to be granted that there are too many and some must be refused The Tribune circle goes before the license committee and fights All AH at once its opposition drops Then the licenses arc are granted Why is this opposition dropped all aU at once And what is the reason advanced for dropping it f No the councilmen councilman do not get this graft but the Tribune gets gots it A deficit is an inconvenient ornament to have in the house and ono one mans money is as good goal as another 3 The Tribune city government has done splendid work for Salt Lake City by increasing the cost of every branch of city improvements And that might account for some of this three millions milli ms that have hl ve disappeared if the money for those improvements came out of the general I tax levy but the money does not come from there It comes from the abutting property owners in the way of We have given an idea of oi of some of the splendid work the tho Tribune has done for Salt Lake City Do the tho taxpayers taxpayer want that sort of splendid splendid did work in the county t Do they want to change the sort of anad an ad administration ministration they have in the county for the tIlt kind they have havo in the city I IThe The people want the city improved and they want it properly done do e but do thoy they want these improvements made the t Je excuse for downright robbery Do they want these improvements ments to cost coat more than they ought to cost l Do they want to pay for improvements in the way of special taxes then thou have their tax levy increased two mills for some purpose that has never nevor been explained t And God only knows knoire what that purpose is isIt isIt isIt It is not a question whether the taxpayers want the city to progress Of course they do But do they want vant that progression ion used as an on excuse use to enrich a n few at the expense of the many man and to keep on its feet an apology for a newspaper that know a news item if it saw it and that spends the tho days in in every very year trying to array army one class dass of citizens c against another Think it over overl Mr Yr Taxpayer It is is worth thinking about |