Show THE GALVESTON PLAN Notwithstanding that the Galveston plan of 7 municipal government government copied copied principally from the Washington plan plan has has proved a most striking success suc sue cess c cess ss wherever tried the News evidently will have I none none of it It says 1 But is s there any any reason why an honest and efficient efficient effi- effi fY v C City Council should not be able to m manage I the affairs of a city with withas as much success as a commission commis- commis r lion sion On the other hand is the there e any guarantee that commissioners would render more satisfactory sat- sat services than a City Council What is a a name name an anyhow how It is hard to make any headway against that kind of or imbecility When did did the News eyer ever see an n honest and efficient Council It has often c charged a ged t that at the present Council has within it a majority of thieves who are robbing the city The Th one ona immediately immediately imme imme- Hately preceding this one was not a Council it was vas simply a ratifying committee to certify to-certify certify to the correctness cor- cor cor- cor of anything which was wanted or not wanted on the corner of Brigham and State streets In that fact we get at what the News means by the an honest and efficient Council It means that power power should rule ruie which two years ago made the theman i man who was the choice of the voters in Mr 11 Fernstrom's FernStrom's Ferns Fern- Fern s Stroms Strom's o s 's ward get off the ticket after he be was n nominated nomi- nomi mi- mi J slated that the place might again be lie given to the Terrible Temble Swede i But waiving all aU those features which control the course course of the News and looking at the at-the the matter from a business standpoint it stands to reason that three i men appointed not appointed not through political primaries and conventions but conventions but because of their business ability and rind integrity and andY paid a salary which would enable tb them cm m to to devote all their time to the business of the city would be a vast improvement ment over any Council elected by the people and whose members wOl would d have to devote the most of their time to their private private X v vate te affairs As As' Asto to the possibility of their bei being lg dishonest that that is most remote Appointed because of their ability and integrity were one one to try to be dishonest the others would be a check upon him As it is we wedo do donot not believe that the Deseret News sto stockholders 4 would be wilI willing ng to entrust the business affairs I of the the corporation to the management of any City Council that the News ev ever r heard of for the office of the fhe the Council is not the real business of any member pf of it with them all aU it is but a side affair What important bus business house would leave leav its affairs in in su such h hands 1 And still the ilie bus business ness nes's of a great city is left to such a body forthe for fOl the members to serve practically lly pay It It is continued because it is an ancient custom and supposed to be honorable although the 3 wants of a city are under modern conditions absolutely absolutely ii lut ly transformed from what they formerly were f an and th the requirements of a capable Councilman arc if ti tenfold enfold what they formerly were Why cling to a no custom which no business man mann could be made to f adopt in the manipulation of his own business 1 |