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Show MAKE A COMPARISON. i The action of the News nowadays toward the present city government is most contemptible. It every day charges gross extravagance and hints that there has been from the first a conspiracy to loot the city. It supplies no proof but continues to reiterate reit-erate its malignant charges, on the supposition, no doubt, that it will be believed by those who have without question been believing its falsehoods for half a century. We suggest to it that it take a new tack. Let it take each department of the city government and compare their present work with the work under the same departments under the Morris administration. administra-tion. If the Morris administration was not perfect in the estimation of the News, there is nothing in its files to prove to the contrary. Very well, on the score of competency and a careful husbandry of the taxpayer's money let it compare the two. , Has the present administration bought any bogus water rights? Has it made any arrangements with farmers to give them in August and September three or four inches of Utah lake water for every inch received from the mountains t Has it made probable any lawsuits with the owners of water in Utah lake! Has it started any conduits that would not hold water! Has it started a conduit without any title to water to flow through it when completed! Has it permitted the lawns and shrubbery of the city to perish while plenty of water has been flowing through the streets! Has it set aside money for sewers that it never built! Are there hold-ups nightly and 'a reign of terror to cause men to dread trying to go home after dark! Are gambling games running in a hundred well-known places on the principal streets ! How about the open saloons on Sunday now as compared with the former administration! How does the necessary nec-essary work performed by the two administrations compare? Has the present City Attorney been obliged to call in associate counsel if a case, needed his attention? How about the franchises given away by the two ! Have the people been choked with dust because of want of sprinkling under the present rule while down every street has been running two streams of water! How about the Council! Are there four members mem-bers who were elected on one ticket who have voted solidly for the opposition ever since they were elected! i Has the present Council sought to raise taxes merely to meet current expenses! Does the organ of the Lord dare to make a detailed comparison between be-tween the two administrations! |