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Show GO TO THE POLLS. City employees and henchmen of the city commissioners hnvo been organized organ-ized and drilled to work for the $1,500,-000 $1,500,-000 bond issue. They have not been instructed to vote their convictions. They have been told to vote "Yea." On the other hand the taxpayers generally gen-erally are not organized. As usual they j;o into tho bond election unprepared, but if they are really aroused, as The Tribune believes they are, they will win. They have the vast majority of votes, but they must cast them if they are to defeat tho bond grab. They muni go to the pulls tomorrow. Tf they Io not take this duty upon themselves and give it their conscientious attention atten-tion tomorrow they will lose and a vast burden of debt will be placed upon them in addition to that . which they must shoulder, because, of the .war. . If the burden of debt were all the peupie of Salt Lake might be willing to make the 'sacrifice, but there are so many reasons why the hond issue should be defeated that the sacrifice would bo folly. Every one of us is paying pay-ing a special tax every day for food anil materials of all kinds. And that Fpecial tax is in addition to the increased in-creased government tax and the contributions con-tributions to the liberty loan, the Hod Cross and other war reliefs both present pres-ent and to come. Even these sacrifices the taxpayers might submit to if there were any overpowering reason why the city should spend lavishly for bathhouses, cemetery roads and water meters at this time. But no such reasou exists. ex-ists. On the contrary com mon sense dictates that tho city commission wait until war prices have given way -to peace prices. Everything the commis-bion commis-bion will buy with the proceeds of the bonds, if the issue carries, will cost ol) to 100 per cent more than ever before. be-fore. A few who have- been serving their private interests have been pleased to sneer at Tho Tribune for contending that the city commissioners should not i-reate superfluous work in competition with the war work of the "government, and yet this argument put forward by The Tribune is the one which has had the widest appeal. Jt -is not original with The Tribune. Back in May the Illinois legislature abandoned its expensive ex-pensive plans for building operations in the state departments because these plans would have created a vast amount of work which would have interfered in-terfered with the government's war work. The Illinois legislature was patriotic enough to economize for the take of the national government, for the sake of the war, for the sake of all that our country stands for. Secretary Secre-tary McAdoo thought that our city commissioners would be swayed by a like patriotic impulse and he advised them against any new work not ab-nolutely ab-nolutely necessary. Tie saw that all available labor would be needed in the mines and factories and on the railroads rail-roads and farms if his country your country was to win the war. On r city commissioners, however, failed to be inspired by patriotic impulses. im-pulses. They scoffed at the argument and went on defiantly with their plans. ow their henchmen and an editor or two- are trying hypocritically to repre-Fcnt repre-Fcnt The Tribune's argument as selfish. "It is not our argument. Tt is the argument argu-ment nf all patriotic men among ng. It i the argument of Secretary McAdoo Mc-Adoo and we have not the slightest doubt that it is the argument of President Presi-dent WiImmi himscl f . Certain 1 v it was .m argument which appealed convincingly convinc-ingly to the auditors of ninety-three cities assembled in convention the other day in Chicago when they denounced all municipal bond issues at this time. The Tribune is confident that at least 7") or Sij per cent of the taxpayers look upon the proposed bond issue from its iM-int of view. They want to see the bond i sue defeated, but they have not n.-:t;i!.ed to defeat it. The Tribune : nknuily warns them that thov v meet with deleat unless they get thrir votes out , for the city ring has completely com-pletely organized and has been working strenuously ami cleverly for weeks. But if the taxpayers do get out tnir vote the bond issue will be snowed under un-der by an avalanche of adverse ballots. |
