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Show MAYOR SAYS ORGAN 0F LORD IS A RANK FAKIR Citizens of Salt Lake, He Declares, De-clares, Needn't Worry About City's Credit. Hr4rHIII-f4HH T r iMayor Ezra. Thompson ex- 4' y pressed himself Sunday con- f cerning the attack on tho city's -I- v credit published in thc DcBorct v A'ews Saturday evening and tho -b 4 refutation of that slander in 4 Tho Tribune Sunday morning. 4- t "I lav? rca(1 botn statements v 'I' carefully," said the mayor. v "and from my knowledge of 4 y cAty affairs I have 110 hesitancy 4 v in faying that tho News's arti- 'b v cle is a misreiirosoutation of 4 4- conditions in cvory lino and 4 f syllable. It is put forth by tho 4- 4 organ of the Mormon church in 4 4- an efTort to discredit tho Amor- 4- 4" icrm nnrlv nni it it. Ill rll...1 r nobody except those who want 4 4 to bc deluded. 4. 4- "The articlo in Thc Tribune 4- v this morning is a correct state- 4 4 ment of the city's revenues, and 4 4- tho facts accessible to the News 4 4- when it printod a statement 4. v which it knew was not true. Tho 4- 4 people of this city have no oc- 4- i casion for concern over the con- 4- 4 dition of tho city's finances, de- 4- 4 spite the harping of those who 4 4 would, if thoy could, destroy 4 v bult Lake's crndit, to gain a po- 4 4 litical or church advantage." t 4- nvrnr4,4,,r4,4"I,4MI"I,Ir4'4I'4r44' |