| Show A CAREER OF extravagance THE taxpayers of salt lake city should pay attention to what la Is going on in the city council bouncil IF they will read the minutes of the meetings of that body they ibey will learn that the extravagance trava traNa gance gauce and recklessness of the preceding liberal 9 body are not only reproduced reproduce a but increased in the present nearly every week new offices with large salaries are created and schemes devised to spend the peopled people 18 money unnecessarily the latest proposition is to bond the city to its utmost legal limit the sum of fe wanted in addition to the regular income from taxes licenses licensee fines etc and it is boldly demanded and will very likely be obtained by bonds at five per cent interest it will be found on investigation and in experience that the large expenditures in process and in prospect like the extension of water mains to uninhabited districts are chiefly in the interest of real estate speculators and with a view to their profit there should be a check on this spendthrift spirit and this pandering to the domando demands of a speculative class it was expected by many citizens of different parties that the mayor as a man of property aad add experience in local af airs aire act in a conservative spirit and hold bold the reins rains of control as far as possible over the more radical members of the council whether his liberal affinities will permit of the exercise of this restraining influence is in a matter of doubt but the beauties of liberal control are becoming more and more apparent to the bur bened and helpless taxpayers |
