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Show THE CITIZEN 4 EDITORIALS FROM GOODWIN'S WEEKL Written by the Late Judge Goodwin November 4, 1911 r Applicable Today Such of you as are old enough to vote are familiar with the past of this city. You know how long it waited for such advances as should have been made; you know why they were held back, how secretly you rejoiced when you beheld the change. You know' how long the streets of the city were a disgrace; how long before there was any street sprinkling; how long before there were any sewers ; how long before there was a decent public school or school house for you or your children; how long it was that your hearts were frozen whenever you had to lay your head in that golgotha called the city cemetery ,such a. place of desolation it was. You recognize the changes since and from what source they have come. You knew, too, in your hearts, that the real oppoosition to the American party, no matter what pretense may be made, is opposition to the spirit that has brought the changes which you see. Those of you who are property owners know that no matter how blind and bitter and false may be the charges against the party, you have never lost anything through it, but on the other hand, if you have any property here, you have been gainers. You know how many of your working people, men and women, have obtained generous wages because of the changes that have been made. You daily read your newspaper which fills its columns with abuse of and falsehoods against those who have transformed this city, but if you will remember back only a brief time you will haye on the retina of your mind's eye the picture of the city when every vice and crime here stalked unchecked, and when your organ was so perfectly satisfied that it had not one complaint or criticism to make. The men of the ticket opposed to the But you may say: American party are all sterling men; we can trust them to do the right thing. We are not criticising one of those men personally, but mythology tells us that Vulcan was in the habit of weaving an invisible net to cast over those whom he wished to restrain. If the men opposed to the American party are elected, the invisible net to hold them in leash is already woven and it will be upon them. It will be a notice served upon the chiefs of your church, that you are determined to be free. That henceforth you will be as faithful and devoted Mormons as ever, but at the same time Americans. Your children will rise up to bless you if you do that for it will take from you and your state a reproach which has clung to it for three score years, and turn aside infinite trouble from your children. It will insure increased progress and wealth to the city and to you personally. Above all, it will exalt Utah in the eyes of the whole nation and cause millions of people to join with you next Wednesday morning in singing the Doxology. MR. MERCHANT AND MR. PROPERTY OWNER. The men you elect Tuesday will control your city affairs for the next four years. You have complained of poor business and high taxes for some time and Tuesday will be your last chance to make THE CHANGE. If you elect the same old crowd, you know you will get a continuation of what you have had. A new set of city officials will BENEFIT ALL. A REVIEW. Election comes next Tuesday. A great many men look over the tickets and say: It does not matter much how we vote. They are all good men. Such men make a grave mistake. For the first forty years of the life of Salt Lake a power ruled here which was determined that Salt Lake should never expand beyond the boundaries of a simple village unless it should be by a certain people and under a certain thralldom. And as a creed was of more importance to this power than any natural interests, so long as those who held the affairs were obedient to that power, little heed was given to the way the duties of the respective offices were carried out. This power designated what men should hold the offices, and what laws should or should not be passed. The officers understood who they alone were responsible to, hence the management of the publics business was controlled by two thoughts: One was to do as bidden, the other to absorb the revenues. Can any one point to a public improvement made by the taxpayers money in those dreary days ? At last there came a change; this power over city affairs was broken, and for a brief season the city was under enlightened rule. Then the innovations were made by building sewers, laying pavements on streets and sidewalks ; sprinkling the streets ; building school houses that were decent; establishing and enlightened public school system, making the burial places of the city respectable the commencement of progress. Then came statehopd and its promises, the people divided on party lines; we were all weak enough to believe, or at least hope, that the old dead past had buried its dead, and set about to build up the state and this city. But it was not long until the old methods were restored, and it finally become clear that the old power, under the name of Republican or Democrat it mattered not which had asserted itself, and the same old rule was dominant. This at last became intolerable and the American party was launched. One would think that there would be one thought among the men here who were born of free mothers and that would be through the ballot, next Tuesday, to serve notice upon this theocracy that it can never again successfully tyranize over a free people Judge C. C. Goodwin. POLITICAL PIRACY AND PRECEDENT. City Commissioner Theodore T. Burton, who is seeking undertook one night last week to hold an undisturbed meeting of his followers and supporters. Mr. Burton held himself to be sufficiently strong to go it alone in this election. He wanted no combination with other candidates on what has come to be known as the church ticket. Herman II. Green he regarded as being the weakliest candidate among his running mates. But Mr. Burton was not permitted to hold his meeting unmoL ested. Henchmen of Mr. Green swooped down upon it with tlN? fell purpose of attaching the Green barnacle to the Burton canoe. The political pirates took the meeting away from the Burton men and brought about a union of interests between the two commissioner candidates; and for good measure they threw in Bishop C. Clarence Neslen, who seeks return to the mayoralty. The move was engineered behind the curtains by a few sharpers re-electi- on, |