Show A despicable PRACTICE thene is a manifest disposition on the part of many officials in this territory to say something in their official reports indicating hostility to the majority of citizens in order to please the clique which has so long hindered unity and progress in this Terri twy teri F every very opportunity port unity is seized hefted to say something spiteful and mean no matter whether it be relevant or not to the matter under immediate consideration this is particularly observable in grand jury reports most of those temporary bodies feel under obligations to give a parting slap at some public officer or institution institute on representing senti ng the maj majority orfey as a bid for an approving pat from the organ of the and growlers prowlers grow lers the grand jury of the first judicial district which has just completed its ita labors at Pro voin making a final report to the court receP recently tY presented the following fifth we have visited and examined the territorial insane ALSY aay luni lum and find its management good all and d everything in as good condition as can be expected under the circumstances cum stances and the capacity as compared with the number of inmates altogether inadequate be klief respecting this matter lies entirely with the utah Leol legislature which body we u understand unjustifiably refused to make the deedna ful appropriation for this purpose the territorial insane asylums asylum as one of the institutions of utah that na no fair minded person can take exceptions to it is a credit to tb the territory the legislative assemblies that have convened since its inception have all been favorable to its prosperity and improvement the slur cast upon the of 1888 in the above extrac extract 18 mean and undeserved and evidently originated lu in the base and paltry motive we have here exposed utah at tabe to the legislature of last session appropriated no DO less than to the insane asylum at previous sessions had been appropriated pria ted making a total of from which must be de bill of ducted as the appropriation 1886 containing that amount wo w vetoed by governor murray leavis the territory the insane myrulla included without any fu funds bluds t to meet 1 go current expenses this makes for av actually appropriated I 1 lia institution figures do 10 not dad d or matter what grand i juries urles may irl in the n say these figures appear be P statutes of utah and cannot denied there was consider considerable abl feeling 00 e of the this subject towards the close VO w session of 1888 A demand made upon the territorial to by persons who seemed devoted the one idea and that embodied I 1 io ill of for the insane asylum yv we for that institution will not I 1 insinuate with some 84 me H individuals that they were sm they we w with monomania or that mentally affected by with the establishment to tn tekeste of wah they yvere were so their A 1 voted they simply closed eyes to other pressing 4 demands UP the territorial finances ire the majority of the leg did not think that the entire da be beo jnue of odthe the territory should 1 1 voted to cwi on institution n rne school the W art were the reform cultural college the deseret uni the pair fair euil buildings dings etc bides sides lular tho expenses of the j territory to be considered As aa it s the legislature appropriated more money for the insane asylum than for any other one purpose and ark in order to meet the increased de bonde departed from the usual economic policy of this territory gohd provided for fora a bonded debt of how then can the grand jury or 0 ny y other body or person anxious to the applause of the chronic fowlers and retainers detainers deta def iners amers presume to rt d that the utah legislature unjustifiably refused to make the j appropriation for this purpose these continual endeavors w place the representatives of the IWo 3 rity here ln in a false liht light troie the country are des able to the last degree de gree 14 we thie case there was no excuse for gt slander it is refuted by the wu and figures set forth in public documents docu indents but such statements ve ase copied by the press at a distance nd the refutation is left unnoticed jt it is time that the promoters of progress and material development th utah tah of all classes combined to wn down these repeated efforts to present and belittle public men 1 measures because they are supported by the majority any per 04 t or paper engaged in such slimy wk atwould be condemned in so pronounced a manner that the practice tw would become uncommon and expire for lack of conge at atmosphere os phere |