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Show AMERICAN HELP TO THE PEOPTJE. Tho ljjeret News seems to be very fond of faking stories from time to time ou "tho injury" that tho American part3' has done to Salt Lake Cit Tt takes rorj' good care, however, never to print anj' names in connection with such ' fako stories, nor in any way to iderrtify its 3arn with anj- fnct or person per-son that can be traced. The Nows iu this simpl3- pursues its usual" tactics of iying and hidiug. There is absolutely nothing in tho stories it tells. But the amazing thing is that it should have the effrontery to be telling such stories in view of the tremendous progress that is tnakiug in Salt Lake Cit3-, and that has been making tho last thrco years, the like of which was never known before in tho history of this place, and the vital forco of all boing direct" traceable to Americanism. American-ism. Everj'body knows, everybody realizes, re-alizes, tho tremeuclous advancement that this cit3 is making under American Ameri-can control. It is, therefore, all tho moro amazing that anj paper should undertake to make an3'bod3 believe that the American part3r is doing an3'-thing an3'-thing io the damage of the city. It was tho American triumph that vitalized the cit3' and resuscitated it from tho torpid conditiou in which tho church control put it and kept it. In 1005, tbo last year of church control in this city. Salt Lake was absoiutcb' retrograding. Wo doubt if thoro had been any increase in the population up to that time over tho census figures iu 1900. But at onco upon the accession of the. American party to power tho eit- leaped forward, auu has continued advancing by leaps and bounds ever since. And the public improvements havo led the tremendous advancement along private lines in tho way of building, build-ing, increase in business, and additions to tho population. If it had not been for the American part" enterprise in leading and paving the wa3 for private onterpriso wo would have seen no such advancement as has been realized. To deny the American pari' tho chief credit for the advancement that, this city has had since 1905 is simply to play tho part of an obstinate ass. There had been over- opportunity hero for advancement, ad-vancement, before that timo just as great as during tho past three yeard, but no advaulago was taken of it; nothing was done about it during all tho 3cars of church supremac-; the city was allowed to He dead; tho administration adminis-tration was dormant, held so b3' the church combination of tho "solid eight," and through other trick' and rascally politics that emanated from church headquarters. It was only upon tho acquisition of power by the American Ameri-can party that the cit" was allowed to tako ou its metropolitan aspect, that tho city administration responded to the demands of the situation and tho public needs, clearing tho way foi' private pri-vate enterprise and pushing the invitation invita-tion to new .settlers, b' tho paving of streets, putting in tho sewers, the building of sidewalks, tlio strict attention atten-tion to sanitar conditions and requirements; require-ments; and in overv- oQ'ort necessar3' to make the city great from tho standpoint of municipal administration, the Ameri-cau Ameri-cau part' responded nobly to the demands de-mands of tho time. Following this at once came the vast expansion that wc havo seen 111 private enterprise and building. This has been going ou now for three years, tho present -6ar reaching reach-ing the high lino in all this enterprise and progress. Amoricauisin has done this magnificent magnifi-cent and noble work for Salt Lako Cit'. It. will do as much in corresponding degree de-gree for the county when it gets control. And, above all, it will stop the graft, tho mismanagement, the incompetence, the favoritism, and tho miserable jobberies, job-beries, that havo been going on in county coun-ty affairs. Tho sheriff and the county attorney havo squandered the public mone3' by tho tens of thousands of dollars dol-lars in their conspiracy and war, County Coun-ty vs. City,, which has been going on now for some two years. The idea of having the county and the cit- work in harmon does not appeal to the miserable tricksters who have ha1 .tho county government under their control for tho past two years and have worked it for tho aggrandizement of themselves, them-selves, to lino their pockets, and to help their friends, at enormous and needless cost to the taxpayers. Wo doubt if, any such corrupt, wretched, and altogether blameworthy county administration exists in any other State in the Nation as wo havo at present in Salt Lako count-. It is an administration of jobbery," graft, favoritism, fa-voritism, and evory-follow-gct-and-lccep-what-he-can for himself and his friends. The road taxes havo been squandered conscicncclessly on roads that aro practically prac-tically private roads, and tho public' roads have been neglected for tho pri-vate pri-vate anaps thus fa-ored. And now tho efforts of the church gang aro frantically directed towards the covering up of the frauds, scandals, graf U and jobs, that they have carried through. Nothing liko tho effort towards to-wards secrocy, towards covering up, towards to-wards whitewashing, has ever been seen anywhere compared with the despcrato efforts directed this year by tho church gang to keep tho old crowd and their ringeter friends in office, in order that) their malfeasance, their stealings, tbeir incompetence may still be covered np and tho public kept from a knowledco of what is going ou. But tho taxpayers of this conn, ty are vitally interested in tho disclosure dis-closure of tho real conditions iv the count'. The .forgeries on the Assessment Assess-ment rolls aro a prominent feature that must be brought to light. Tho partiality in assessments whcrcb3' certain fa-voritos fa-voritos have thoir property assessed at low figures and those who are fighting the ring aro penalized by heavy assessments, assess-ments, are things that should bo inquired in-quired into and tho light turned upon them. The grafts in tho commissioners' accounts, the stealings in the infirmary, the job whereby a protense was made that a new site was needed for the infirmary in-firmary and somo $15,000 paid out for that sito uselessly; all being simply a johbiug land graft, nre things that the public is entitled to know all about. Tho American candidates, when they are olected and get into office, intend to inquire into all these things and to let tho .public know what has been going go-ing on. liut that is precisely what tho church-ring gang fear the most. Thoy know that some of their number aro duo to go ta tho penitentiniy. and they fear ! that by the disclosure of the stealings and jobs iu the county business a number num-ber of them will laud in jail. This accounts ac-counts for tho desperate nature of the conflict they are making this year to rotaiu control of this county. But U10 very reason wiry thoy aro making this Inst-ditch effort, this strenuous fight to cover up their rascalities, is precisely why tho public should voto the American Ameri-can ticket, and thereby insure tho turning turn-ing on of tho light ou all these transactions. transac-tions. ' Let us find out what has been going on iu stealings, in graft,, in mismanagement, mis-management, and iu personal and political po-litical jobs. Tho people can never know if tho church tickot is elected. The people are sure to know if tho American tickot 'is elected. And tho pcoplo are surely untitled to know all that is going on in their public affairs. Therefore, it is their duty and to their interest to support the American tickot and turn the light upon this nest of depraved scoundrels who have for so many years been robbing tho people and defying tho law. |