| Show IT IS VERY SAD TUB spectacle presented by the city council of salt lake is ie sufficient to diffuse the genius of melancholia throughout the municipal corporation this menace to the mental health of the community to is not only because of the evidences of manipulative jobbery at almost every step of the public bustness business but on account of the undignified tableaux presented at the sessions of the alleged fathers of the city it is sufficiently saddening when and alleged members member the six barnacles barnacled barn acles who were never elected assume a perpendicular attitude aud burl large slices of slang epithets and red eyed de defiance deblance at each other but when men who have not a shadow of standing or membership on the floor are permitted to join in the rhetorical melee every limit of decency to is overleaped over leaped it may be tolerable for a citizen by courtesy to be allowed to present a respectful ful petition and the reasons he has baa to furnish in support of it but that he be should be allowed with or without permission to join in a debate in progress in a legislative body and in the course of it to bandy epithets with members in ia so utterly foreign to good sense and propriety that no consistent person can endorse it however the latest exposition of this character is but following up the liberty given two attorneys for the applicant tor for a whisky license after the council had denied the application these limbs of the law were permitted to appear before that body and makkar make arguments in favoron favor of their client notwithstanding that the matter was pending in the courts thus the council appears to be becoming all things to wao om men at one time it assumes the role of a court of law minus the necessary acu acumen and at another takes on the appearance of a free and easy debating club whose rules do not the participants to confine themselves to the most ordinary decorum these symptoms combined with the evidences of jobs and unconscionable expenditure of the peoples money on holes in the ground are the almost constant food for reflection supplied by the present city government there is no nutriment in it the public is thoroughly thorough Iv nauseated with the allopathic doses with which it to is being constantly supplied by the council one of the lamentable features of the council squabbles and scurrility episodes is the utter and childlike helplessness of the mayor who seems to have no more power to preserve order than a kitten suffering ring from a severe attack of the grippe |
