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Show only to one. Now the men walk their boats singly and the city is much better protected. The men thus far appointed to the force are waking good otlicers. Many of ' them have fought valiantly for the , Liberal cause, and they certaiDly should receive as liberal lib-eral pay as tha-policcmen did undor the Mormon government. To reduce their pay iu order to increase it is something that they can't understand nor appreciate. appreci-ate. They don't care to have their pay increased iu that way, and the city council coun-cil will lind that it' is making a serious niistake. False economy is tho most costly thing that can be indulged in. Mayor Suott, speaking for himself and the city council, says iu reply to a Times article that the council does not propose to reduce the pay of the police ; force, but "to carry out the plan of an increase of salaries that has been in vogue here and elsewhere iu the "country." "coun-try." In accordance with this idea the plan is to pay $80 per month for the first year's service and gradually raite the salary. This plan may bo all well enough in the old cities of the east wnere living is much cheaper than it is in Salt Lake. While it is true that under the old schedule policemen received re-ceived salaries running up to $1200 per year, depending on their length of ser-yice, ser-yice, it should be borne in mind that under the old regime the officers did not have to buy uniforms. The cost of their clothing now foots up 6150 per year. It should also be remembered remem-bered that rents are now double and triple what they formerly were, and as nearly all the policemen are men of family, fam-ily, this extra expense draws heavily on their purse. Up to within two or three ( years ago, under the Mormon rule, t when living expenses were comparatively i light, the pay of the police ran from 8100 to 1125. The officers then traveled in pairs, thus making two policemen equal |