Show LIVE halVE I WITHIN INCOME U Cities should be he required to live I Income There should be he hen bea a a. law In 1115 state as there is In most moat states stateR r requiring each department of each city to make Its estimate at the beginning of or the year ear an and then hold It to within the appropriation tion which Is IG based on those estimates That should be he done ii In Salt Sail Lake The present administration of this eIt city cily raised the taxes one une mill and anti then proceeded with expenditures that will c certainly result In a deficit of or nearly or quite a quarter million dollars dollar q The levy will have to be bo raised a again at atthe t the Iho end of or the present fiscal year par of oC Cour course e. e Or else there will be a n load of or this years year's eals indebtedness that will hang over the heads lends of or the administration adminis to be next November The burdens burden mn made e by hy one group of officers will have to be carried by hy theIr successors The thing is unfair In ever every wa way The Thc people expect a city tion Uon to lo live Jive within its Income an and the they should not be disappointed Every business ss house should do the tho sam same and I is required to lo do so Ever Every department de- de e- e of a commercial house must keep within the limits of oC Its ils allow allow- ance Ever Every man In his personal affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs airs must spend no more than his income Cities are no exception to lo the thc rule and if the they violate viola to that sound principle of prudence tho they will suffer b by It Salt Lake Lako Is suffering because tho the present administration has disregarded disregard disregard- ed etl tho the essentially sensible rule rule rule-a a rule that no prudent business man will over ever permit himself to violate The burden falls upon the people The They have no means of knowing unless such a law lawIs Is enforced how deeply theIr public servants ser are ale running them Into debt And Anti they have a right to know The They have hac a right to forbid tho the making of an all any debt There is no justification for such a n condition Every department should know at the beginning of or the lie year what its expenditures must be and its allowance should hould bo be made to cover that If possible If Ie not then thon the Iho expenditures should bo be curtailed The practice of oC making debts with a lavish blindness ness for Cor some to topa pa pay Is ruinous and can not be too strongly condemned |