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Show Justice. We are all looking for a greater Salt Lake and hoping that the transformation will begin soon. In planning the ways through which this shall be brought about, we may got a hint from tho words Lord Lytton put in the mouth of Iticheleau: "I have re-created Franco; and from the asheb of tho old feudal and decrep"It carcass Civilization on her luminous wings soars phoenix-like to Heaven What was my art? Genius some say some Fortune; witchcraft some. Not so my art was Justice." Well that is about all that is needed here, f there are unworthy or incompetent officers in any station in this city, they should bo dismissed. Incompetency is just as fatal to tho best interests of a city as rascality and it is injustice to tho people peo-ple who pay the taxes that one of these should be retained in the city's service. Those that do tho work; those that plan the work; those that keep tho peace; those that -frame the ordinances; those that keep the accounts ac-counts and expend tho money; if there is one of them dishonest or incompetent, such a ono should be done away with, for to pay one of those for inefficient service is to rob tho people and is unjust. Simple honesty of purpose in a public officer is not enough. Men of brains should have charge in this transition from a village to a city. The planning should bo such that no corrections will have to be made, the oxcution should bo along the most direct and effective lines and when any man in any position fails twice he should be dismissed dis-missed for to retain such a one is to rob the taxpayers tax-payers and to cast discredit upon the city. |