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Show WRECKED IN CHARACTER AND FORTUNE. It Is time for every citizen or taxpayer tax-payer of Salt Inke to calmly sit down and survey ihe situation of this municipality. munici-pality. Salt Lake Is wrecked In character char-acter and fortune she Is :i town ot evil fame she has been running wide open, not only wide open for the stranger Within her gales, but Wide open for the young people within her own homes Ask any preacher or poll. po-ll. . man who are the young women and boys who are going the downward road and h will tell you they i or. e from decent de-cent homes In this joimnunlty and that their parents are mourning over them In the daytime and seeking them at nlghl lime. This wrecked character Hon. Ezra Thompson and the American administration adminis-tration must restore. First of ail. Mayor-elect Thompson, a community like n man must have a substratum of decent character, a fair repute, and like a man the community must do business with respectable people W other living liv-ing man was ever confront) ! bj 0 more defined task than you Will hate to meet, and we, firmly believe that 110 other man ovpi brought belter iiuaUtles of heart and head to the task You love Salt T,ake and you have bralni enough to know how to restore What she has lost. The everlasting shame of Salt Lake's wrecked character rests with the controlling forces which ha.e had her destinies in charge Rebuilding Rebuild-ing the wreckage of her character into a glori ms shl. of c ommunity life will rest .vllh Mayor Thompson ami the American party And the wjret kng of city fortune has heii as c omplete. Could any one dream that a man like Richard P Morris, with his reputation and with the public trust w hich was reposed In him, would have utterly demoralised the water project pro-ject and rendered almost us-less the entire sum of Jl.OOO.noo voted by the tax-pavers tax-pavers one year ago " The Tribune confessed itself terribly disappointed. Mr Morris came to this Office with friends who uledged their honor that this project wis Straight; that every charge would be to execute the public need; that every consideration considera-tion would be shown In relutn for llb-Ih- trust If the money should no granted grant-ed The Tribune advocated the voting of the bonds upon these grounds, and stated the ase to the public so tha; every voter knew that the honor of Morris and his friends was Involved Long before election day this paper called attention to certain unwise and probably dangerous projects which were being hurriedly seized upon as a part of the water project. In fact, supported sup-ported by some of the best sentiment within the city government. The Tribune Trib-une asked thai an engineer of reputed ability be required to go over the whole scheme. Insidiously, secretly, we will nol say corruptly, although ihere Is U strong temptation tO use the WOrd, contrails con-trails were let right and left and even when election day had demonstrated that the people of Salr Lake dld not wish to trust this greal water project to Mi. Richard P. Morris and his administration, ad-ministration, these persons had the indecency in-decency to go on wrecking the fortunes Of ihe water rnterprlse and leaving another an-other dismantled hulk for the Hon. ESsra Thompson ami his administration to reconstruct Every man Of the party who knew th- fails, knew that everything every-thing which could be done to BCattei the timlMMs of this water ship over a tra klesa ocean has been done and that Hon. Hzra Thompsor will have to rebuild re-build from the beginning, Fortunately tin- public confidence is complete In out integrity and ability, Mr Thompson. Thomp-son. it seldom happens that a clly Is wrei kc-d in both charai ter and fortune li n it Is turned over to a new administration. admin-istration. Perhaps never before has a cltj been such a complete dismantled hulk "after God," as the Mormon leaders lead-ers pretend, 'has had ihe guidance fin-two fin-two years.' The only proof that He loves Salt Lake at all la that He has i hastened her almost out of existen1 |