Show AN EXEMPLARY COUNCIL the last issue of the bountiful da via county clipper does what a newspaper seldom finds reasonable opportunity for doing nowadays congratulates its ita city 01 ty councilors councillors counci lors for the economy and wisdom they have displayed in hand band alln the city citha s funds and keeping down taxes at the same time giving the municipality satisfactory government in other rep some borne of these bountiful officers have served four years without having received a dollar directly or indirectly for their services as councilmen and they go out of office leaving the city free fram debt a and nd with a balance I 1 la a the treasury trea eury the clipper also says it must be remembered too that they have hare never assessed a general city tax that every dollar of f the money on handl hand has come from licenses it to la not every municipality that can follow on these precise lines but some of the larger ones on in the sate brute could reach out in the same direction wibb marked advantage to the taxpayers it to la all very well wall to pay eity city councilmen oilmen a ros reasonable salary but with the amount of ah fat s fixed they ought to have as good a reputation fr for not taking a dollar beyond it as do the bountiful mob men for smug akib so aa oqual equal show of honesty bosty then wo we would not ot have bavo abe spectacle observable not a thou sand and miles hen from lore here of a candidate for counell manio leaon bog tring his aia friends to help blas aim into tho the office because he bo needs it with the salary tf 44 councilmen at as the figure there la Is reasonable certainty certainly that the need l of such an individual are not in the legitimate pay he way may draw for his hie services but in the pilfering he may be able to do the omission 16 levy a general eity city tax R also loo is in beyond the reasonable vos poa in mault les even in hard times limea when such an omission would be exceedingly especially to small homo home owners who find therra them elves greatly bur burdevet burde deved oed by the high valuation charged against fool denee property in the he larger cities but city councils generally could do much better than many of them have done to in making the general tax so sa low as ae is ig consistent with toe 1 1 6 actual needs of the municipality the chief trouble Js is that most city figure on OB the highest amount they can get from the people without causing a popular jar uprising instead 0 ol 01 trying to got get along with as aft little as ae they reasonably can in giving at ao effective administration the retiring ret irine bountiful officers and those of some other of the smaller cities of utah are entitled to the gratitude of their the ir con for doing excellent work aou setting etti og a commendable example to many larger municipalities in wine and economical |