| Show A WHOLESOME RULE it to is very well known that public office and employment are frequently secured by men who do not represent the highest type of chivalric honor who in fat fao are deficient in common honesty ho neety to an extent that makes it difficult for grocers butchers tailors 4 and generally to collect bills from them it is not an uncommon sight to see a man bursting with a patri patriotic otle desire to serve his fellow citizens in some capacity that will give him access to the public treasury who at the same time is so contemptibly dishonest that he would cheat his washerwoman out of her hard earned wages and the instances in which such men mefi succeed in obtaining positions and jobs that enable them to draw the peoples money is surprising it has been held to be the law that the wages of an employed ofa municipality in this state could not be garnished for det debt and memory reverts to the case of an individual who some years year ago hel held d a position under the city r government which paid a generous salary yet who openly and notoriously defied small creditors to collect bills from him his worthless checks given in payment of gambling debts debba were circulating about town and tra who had accommodated him with credit and acquaintances who had loaned him sums of money were treated with contempt his salary was held to be protected by law and he was otherwise judgment proof there have wen been too many such auch cases the county commissioners of salt lake county evidently do not propose that such euch an abuse shall exist among the employed emp loyes of the county as they recently adopted a resolution to the effect that th the refusal of a county em aldye to pay an honest debt would be deemed sufficient cause for discharge or removal this is a most wholesome rule and it 0 ought to be enforced in all the departments of the city as well as aa of the county government A man who will not use his hia income for the payment n of 0 his honest debts as fat far as that income will go after supplying himself and ib his family it if he has one with actual necessaries ought not to be kept in a position where he can draw a salary which is protected from his creditors the news does not care at this time to discuss the sound soundness new of a law that makes such an abuse possible but will content itself with expressing the hope that the proper officers will adopt regulations that will make it |
