Show public salaries the salt lake herald quoted our demand for for economy in county salaries and says homant hg h g ben abent the lucrative inces one coald en ase in in utah in salt lake county the fees of vanous officer havo been so larff bat those who were able to hold their for two or three bernia have been to eav enorah to make them a bev fair competency for life our argument hai always been that low salaries give ua purer poli tica and better in office alie pro fesa ional politicians cans work for alie bieh salaried offices ofFic cs patriots are wil ling to sene alio people in positions where alie emoluments are bot great I 1 there lias been no trouble except on ne board so far as we leavo heard in getting the best men of the state to take charge of the public institutions for which the law provides no salary most men regard the appointment to such positions an honor and are willing to devote a portion of their time for the bublic welfare in other states there has been no in pouring the best WR in community to serve on beards of education and aa school trustees that plan is to be adopted in utah and we predict there will be no lack of good men to fill the on cur school boards in offices where the entire time of officials is consumed it i right enough to pay alie officials an ade quite amount to them for private losses which they may sustain but the office should not be the means as they have been in the past of making men the herald says of the present salaries paid in salt lako county that it is no di para gement of any of the county officials to aay eliat the salaries fixed for them are higher than any they would be able to command in the open market that principle is wrong the public should pay no more for services than what is paid in the open market it ia hard enough the poor farmere know to pay the common wages with wheat down to 50 cents per bushel to say nothing of profitable salaries to alie public officers every other class of salaries is down in utah today and public salaries should be kept the same way IT seems that dhosi democratic cormons mormons Mor mons who participated in the reconvened democratic convention of last year that passed such antichurch resolutions are alie men most sorely vexed these dagg by alie late manifesto alie mills of the godi grind slowly but they are said to grind exceedingly fine THE provo power plant company has submitted a proposition to furnish alie capital light there in power cn augh in provo canyon for alie purpose and it is claimed that the distance will not cut much figure under alio proposed system of transmitting the power which is employed by alie company THE people of utah should continue the policy of the pioneers as far as possible and promote home industry by buying home manufactured goods the autograph letters testifying to cures made by adora ayora sarsaparilla and other preparations ara kept on file at the J 0 ayer co s office lowell they are from all ovar the world and are cheerfully shown to anyone desirous of seeing them |