| Show I is 1lITIUXI1 MCtSSlIU 7 I Thousnnls of tourists annually visit i 1 this city and they listen with s > m paths and wonder to the tale of Its founding anl building up to recent o years V hen tort nro told tot the march II founder mnde 0001 wllllneo ocd desert of Its betlnnlni In the form beta I n log and adot > e fort n thousin miles from the nearest clUllzcl settlement of Its rapid ispinslon resulting from the arrhal of hosts of refugees nnJ particularly w hen they coo Informed of the manner In which It was goicmcd I for the nrst few decades of Its existence I It exist-ence they arc filled with admlratlor I i for the food sense anl otherran luallties ff the men who created It lands were sureyed and latcclle out to tho settlers im ler jut and i wholesome regulatloi streets were laid out ui 1 Improved homes were 1 built I orchards were planted cud I gardens wire cultUated costly trot ration woiln were constructed ubllc buildings wtre erccttd and ImbUc l Im i proiements were madtl the nIb growl larb prOpel itlons I and was rcmarkablj I o b i peaceful nn 1 00711 i goerntd barring a I 11 i trIllIng II atlng debt the city seldom or never ooncd u dollar 1 The perIod of the i elt > s growtl Ire 1 referred to co ered the j ears of L the deepest OertJ and dljtrts of Its I Inhabitants the > earn lurln wllch their bur lens often seemed greater than I they could bear Yet strange to asp I I their city taxes arc not nan I rememlered as a causa of hIt i I othe trrS I them noon so hrn I the Inhabitants of the tilt gen eralls were so poor that they lurked 0 necessaries of life I rot ably It 1 I would bo the unanimous testimony oas 040 o-as many of the original I settlers of thl roOfI 17e city who still I me In It as could ke gotten together that they nor felt the burdens of taxation In the days of I their greatest penury and lack of lift rumfcnte 001 noreoeurlse cc Ihoep boone 1 felt I them since their property wa O q esteemed to be sorry valuable The assessed t iluatlonot the proper 1 t tyln this city compared with the num 1 < fI to r of Ito Inhabitants makes It amour ° o to be 11 0 stubby city jet since It became be-came w ilthy Its Inliat Hants huoa groanid unl r the burd ns of taxatlot as thfY Ott i did when quired to sustain a vernmt out of the roo nues derl If oonunoooootofuu lion not a tenth as hiGh as the present 0 ne Wh this astonishing inference FIt sucker In ea y and Irrefutal 1 > jrtlranl m In municipal aft Urn did I lot make Us appearance until after he city homo 1 rich For forty years IbIS city was coo I rntl On the non partisan plan Dur tog nil those years tho emma sought I lIon mn not tho soon the orne I itrlotlsm and not pelf nor power wa the motive that Inspired men to ussumo and discharge tie duties and nsronsllimirs of oinco During much I of that time lb oerosoen n law Von tin tatuto book of the Territory making I mnll IInhl to olin of n bounded lollnra for refusing an office to which ho might le circle or appolntel Of < ours It was constitutional but 1 It one tho less I rellcctril the put lie sen IIment Under such a rerlme men In power adjusted the burdens oC government tD the con lltlons of the people Their own alnrl to were low cud often their erUces were rendered gratis their anxiety In behalf of the people wan Incerc their patriotism was genuine and above all their Integrity was Incorruptible In-corruptible No job were put through lle City Council In no dlnrllncnt of the city govrnmnt WI1 there I vcr fobbed a taint of bribery nor an odor of corruption Honisty and economy werr rigidly malntalnd and the u Istenc of uch nrrentnre a i the ward hler wno otd omnse dot Then rome a Urn 5hOn the Inhnbl tonIc of the clly wero divIded I1lmoat rItually on pnl ty lInes nnll n dolor mlnrl political battle was fought The reult wo n triumph of parlll1nlm anol the consquncu tht loose 1I0w1 from that rult are too frh In tho memorle of lIen citizen genernllYltnd iae bcin too often and too deeply ImprlI upn the mind 01 the tax aycrs to need recalling here Oaf Ico It to say that property owners oeoer hone whnt Ihe harden of gao rnmcnt were until after the advent ef prtloonlsm We ore tolll thnt pnrllnlm I In dlspnbl to good government and the ltlgkoetwrhfare vf the cllln tht vrlthout It the people would bo oppressed op-pressed and robbed of their liberties tht It Ireenll eorrupUon and lis honty nmong omeholll and thot It Is I absolutely necessary to the growth and prosperity of a cIty or a state Hut the history of tht State of Utah nnd of the city which Is I Its cipltal Is I a complel and ovrwhlmlng refull1 lion of all these assertions The experience the actual and dIe rcsslng experience of the people of Ibis dIY tho mot convincIng proof nod proves within rneh of tho humnn mind barrIoS dlvlno revelation demonstrates dem-onstrates that partlsanlsm has been Its bne and tht when tho pl1rUan rule tho tupnyer mourn tout omllme the humnn mInd broom so tenacIous la lIon ndhc to orOr that logic reREOn nll1 eOn eprlnc are In umelnt to cOl1vln or change It Do the men cod women who are 1000 the ollng In thIs oIly tomonov poe minds of this character The News thinks not With a good deal of confidence the News anticipates tl at the count of the solo otler tomorrow baIIotInsntli disclose tl e fact that a Bulllctent number num-ber of the eople of this city have had their eses openel to the evils of par Uon control of nunldpal nllalra to Irevent tIe contlnuac |
