| Show ramblings rumblings numb lings gs EDITOR JOURNAL Jo unNAr I 1 trust that I 1 will riot not lie be intruding upon your valuable space too much I 1 have havena in item I 1 wish to bring brin before the tax payers of smith 1 city more particularly and in order to ilo do this I 1 desired sonic some listle space in your valuable paper it lias has quito imite a circulation liere here but not as much as it should have the subject at issue is this on january I 1 wrote an artico article to tin JOURNAL Jou uNAL in that article I 1 accused our city fathers of passing an ordinance contrary to tile the statues of the territory of utah this honorable lion erable boly body our city fathers as soon as they could pull buil themselves together 0 met in special session and tho the following 0 is is a portion of the business transacted by them I 1 will give it as it reads all ordinances of this city passed prior to jan ith ath 1804 1894 amending see sec of chapter 9 of tile the rc revised v ordinances of S city are hereby repealed and this ordinance shall be in force in loin leiu thereof 13 be le it ardai ordained ned by the city council of smithfield city county of cache and territory of utah that sec of chapter 0 of the revised ordin ordinances ances of smithfield city be and is hereby amended by striking out the figures in the fifth line of said section and inserting in leiu lein thereof the figures passed jan 1894 1804 signed SAMUEL NELSON 1 I 1 mayor attest by bv the recorder now the fifth line in see sec chapter 9 of the revised ordinances of smithfield city is positively dealing with a wholesale liquor dealer section of the samo same chapter says it A wholesale dealer as contemplated tem plated in this chapter is one wao who sells or otherwise disposes of such ii liquors quoos in in any quantity not to bo be drank on the premises where sold this is tile the way iray I 1 understand it places the saloon keepers of smithfield city in in a critical condition providing some one interferes with them for they are selling liquor by the cl drink rink and it is drank on the premises what I 1 wish to call the attention of the taxpayers of smithfield Smith Geld city to is this prior to november vember ath 1803 1 said and still say that we as tax lax payers needed ability and skill to manipulate the affairs of thi city my opponents said they had bad ability and skill up for office odice voted for and elected tile the present in incumbents cum bents now I 1 would like to know where the ability and skill comes in for they the city fathers have held two mcc meetings lingl I 1 placing 0 their wages at one dollar each for each meeting mayor five council le ie corder and marshal i the two meetings alone would be i exteen dollars their legal advise would be five dollars twenty five dollars lost on their liquor license if they have one one dollar for incidental expenses the total amount at this low h hure figure 0 ure would be 47 dollars total luss loss to i the tax payers of smithfield providing this rate is kept up for 12 months it m antans ans loss to this city and bad very bad ordinances for us to be governed by buos II 11 WOOLFORD smithfield SMI TUFIELD jan 1891 1894 1 |
