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Show WHY ITS ANIMUS? It is remarkable how ready tho ! Herald is to jump upon and aUompfc to discredit the financial reports of I this city, rt has been doing this ever since the American administration cnino into power. If its ideas on the financial finan-cial affairs of this city had been even j approximately correct. Salt Lake wonfd have been bankrupt long ago. But t lie J city's finances are getting better nnd better all the time, and we are getting on toward offsetting that ?S5,000 past j due obligation left by the Morris ad- ministration, which should have been J paid months before he turned over tho i city government to his successor. The report of the City Treasurer for ; May is called by tho Herald Mr. Snyder's monthly joke, ft undertakes 1 to dissect it with the result that it .shows a dull scalpel and awkward hands. And in the end. it has to con-fesH con-fesH that the report is precise, and could not bo anything different from what it. is; tha,t tho city finances are in good shape, that the funds are all faithfully segregated and represented, and the figures given the true figures. What, then, is the trouble with the Herald, since there is nothing wrong with the report? Merely a -esse of aggravated ag-gravated ignorance and stupid partisan malignity. But. if tho Herald wants to fall afoul of any financial report, why doesn't it p'(.v some attention to the Stato T-rtacurv-' pnyfnrci ni 'hrj-rrpipic of the State, on all accounts for thn ' month of Mny wcro only $41 ,438.10; while tho expenditures amounted to the enormous sum of $198,41)9.28, a deficit for the month of $ 157,560.1 S. Of tho total expenditures. $137,500.10 was from the genoral fund, and tho chief other item of disbursement was $59,-404.9$ $59,-404.9$ from the Stale Lund fund. There remained but $50,007.49 in the general fund at tho ond of Mn.y. It is evident that the fund will immediately havo to borrow to meet its obligations, obliga-tions, for it cannot arbitrarily tako money from other funds. The chief item of the $020,057.90 on hand Mny 31st, was $I40,S51.01 in the Stato school fund. This is to bo distributed to tho schools. Tho various Slate institutions in-stitutions have most of what remains, subject to their call. It is a prett- dismal outlook for tho State Treasury, from the "joke" standpoint. But. the fact, is that in the State, as in the city, this is the time of dearth; last year's taxation is Inrge-ly Inrge-ly used, nnd there will bo the usual shortage, commonly made good by borrowing, bor-rowing, until the new taxation begins to conic in in the fall. It. is a condition seen every year. Tt, affects State, county, coun-ty, city, and school district alike. Thero is no reason at all for singling one out as a "joke" or for reprobation more than another. And the Herald in singling out tho city treasury for its attacks, shows, though it is professedly a Democratic, newspapor, that its partisan par-tisan animus is moro bitter agninst thci American party than it is against thn Republican party. And the question is, why? |