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Show ALL GOING WELL. The American administration of the city of Salt Lake -increased the pay of laboring men, and a great roar went up from the organs of tho opposition parties. The Board of Education Increases the salaries of officials who already were enjoying a remuneration so far out of proportion to laborers' pay that there Is no naming them In the same breath, and the opposition unite in a hymn of praise. Tho Morris administration refused to clean up tho city, yet charged for neglect neg-lect within a small fraction of as much as the present administration charges for effective work. Tho opposition commends com-mends the Morris administration for Its neglect and condemns tho present administration ad-ministration for Its efficiency. Last year there was but little use for the crematory, as the city wasn't cleaned. This year the city Is cleaned, arid the crematory has been much. used. Result, an outcry about the expense at that institution. And yet the. coot of I cremation, per load, Is but 45 cents, as compared with an average of 75 cents j in other cities. - j- It all helps to give volume to a partisan parti-san howl, and the howl comes; but the ,publlc-underfltands pretty .well that it Is but a partisan outcry, without sincerity (or good purpose. Tho very one who are- making It, joined in the request for tho things that meant tho expense; but only a contemptible few of these havo thus discredited their own request: the vast majority stand by their guns and Justify the cost of what they asked to have done. Tho American city administration Is meotlng the views of the public. Is doing do-ing eo In a businesslike way, and Is doing do-ing admirable work in all departments of the public service. Tho enemies of this administration are the political schemers and plotters. They aro shrieking In horror that they anticipate an Increase in city taxes. But they saw nothing wrong when the last administration increased the city tax levy each year l.t was in power; first from nine mills to ten; then from ten mills to eleven. In the estimation of the partisan weepers, that was a blessing to the taxpayers; but the mere phantom of a raise conjured up in their own Imaginations now. throws them Into convulsions. But the people are content. They are well served, and have confidence In the principles Involved, and In the men who have the public affairs In charge. |