Show JO DO O THEY DESERVi B IT O Our r American friends s have ha made a at square demand as a political party part t. t for tor the control of the public schools In the history of oC any city In this republic re republic re- re t public so far Car as present knowledge se extends I It l is the he first time line a partisan r management has demanded the control con con- hol of oC the public schools It I Is the F 1 first time timo the thc control of ot the schools schoos 1 has been In- In r sought ought In Inthe the name of any political party and solely because because bet be be- be- be t cause CRuse that political party pan wants It The Thc r- r contention has one merit It Il Is frank But nut do docs lOei the American merlean party deserve de de- dc- dc serve the control of ot the schools of oC Salt Lake In 1001 looking lnE at that thit question ques k- k tion one Is warranted ji in seeing what r u use tIO o tho the American nici-ican party part has made of S.- S. the tho power powel that WAS to lo it in inK inthe K the past It will be remembered that I the managers of that flInt party part demanded control of the city because e the iho city had been heen h. h badly lh a administered They 1 out the evident ent violation of I man ninny many la laws Jaws and made the tle solemn pledge that If the they were given Ji power they w would reform those evils lIs In J particular the they promised to 10 correct the evils that flowed etl from such saloons r a as defied or 01 disregarded the law Does Dos an any one who voted the American Ameri Amer 1 can ca'n can ticket on that pledge think the pledge o has been redeemed Docs Does any anyo o oo ono one o who still supports the tile American party part believe the Sunda Sunday saloons have i been e c compelled to ob-e ob obey the law 7 1 There ar arc keepers In Salt SaIL Lal Lake e ho 1 ro rigidly obey bc the thc law and w con on to I M. M 4 suIt suH their own Interests Rt at the tho same time for six lx da lays days 11 I Is enough for any Ih I J f tu business But there are arc man many more moro f. f that make no pretense of ot I keeping the r lar la l lay r. r They h IO ICU ol close their front i doors on undu an and lii- lii that if neglect advertise C their dl disregard legard of oC the J Jaw w the they should obey as well as as- the thc pledge their party made to the public trI j e p S S t I In III these saloons young oung men gath gather r l f i who vio arc are harmed b by the time the they I k- k Jr spend pen there young oung men who can not ii afford to waste vaSte the money the they leave there young men whose fathers anti and would woul not or a a. minute support j tho American party pan if they could know the truth And it Il Is easily known An Any one who cares to go JO do down n street on Oil Sunday Sunda will find a score o 0 of open Inthe In Inthe the buster busier districts of or Salt Lake Lahe It r 1 a TOt TOt-a question fuestion of f. f dodging od around i through roush I hallways or ot making a pretense pre pre- i lenso tense of a a. cigar cisar Ht re- re l The e saloons loons are arc open as aa saloons and t plainly so j There is a still worse phase of or this subject In nearly every everyone one of these saloons there is a card game game usually usually poker Of or cour course e the tho game same runs every J day lay and every night That ia is known to every one oue who has the thc slightest do do- sire to l know now what whal is going on in the tin i. i i city But the lr Sunday games are arc dist dis- dis t f. f d harmful Always Alwa's the gome j is played b by men who arc are at work through the week Always the players players play play- ers ere are arc plied piled with liquor and the more mor copiously the they drink the moro more reck lessly do they phi play fhe They lose o 01 or I course And they can not not either either 1 it In I monc money or In health afford afford the lo los they sustain regularly In the Sunday Sunda saloon that the American party parly per pcr- to 0 openly openly continue Its bu business S S SIt It was pledged to the people when I the American party managers were wort seeking control of or orthe the city that the laws laWN would be he enforced They Thoy 11 do declared de- de I the they would make an end of or the S Sunday saloon Thy dare not nul lIen deny t that The They promised 1 there would beno bo Is bono 3 no more open gambling They hoy know the they have bro broken en those pledges It L. oe vu to more inure openly disregard gard the law than it Is n disregarded no now Saloons are arc open Sunda Sunday and gambling is conducted con ducted almost almo t Invariably In th the Sunda Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- da day saloons and men are the worse for tor It it But the American party managers manages man man- ages agers assessed the saloon mon men heavily In in- inthe the thc recent i county count campaign and andar andare ar are aie giving them protection as aM as a pay pay- la a for the thc money that was aK con- con Some saloon loon men declined t to t pay and the they Im know w they will vIli not bo bu protected Some Somo made their contribution con con- ll n Just jUtt ju t on Ott general principles but bilt do not attempt to open upen their pi places ceS' ceS of business ori Ji Sunda Sunday But those that are I open are ar areo o open n because because because be be- cause tho the proprietors h have vc be ben n n given protection b by the elt city authorities the they helped to put In I power lh the lIar party that office b by false raIse es and are aro today trying to lo a again aln deceive deceive de de- do- do the tho public It Is toll oily folly to pretend that Sa garbIng has been driven out of tho the city r out olid can call see seo the games sames going on cither either cither eith- eith er Sunday Sunda or week da day in tn saloon that are favored by the American party part politicians politician j. j It is toll folly to pretend pro pre tend gambling has been out 5 when ono one remembers the Mc tIe case case case-a a case where a t ten thousand n- n dollar winning at a game am wa was as a matter of ot so slight importance so lit little lit lit- tic tle out pt of br the tho ordinary that no at attention attention attention at- at at all nil was 1 paid to It by the police Now these things arc mentioned to impress this his truth The Tho managers of the party part do o not I keep their pledges to tho ho people who whose e votes the they ask In election They do not make aright a aright right and proper use of the power the people give them An And how can you O l expect them to lo be better bettor In future than they have been in fn the past The Tho time when the they would naturally keep their pledges would be the first time the they were entrusted with a authority If It ever tile they were going to lo t try to do doright right It Is then they would would like like the new broom broom sweep sweep clean But nut thc they have havo not kept their promise even In Inthe the tho first trial you ou have havo given them C you rou have no reason to expect they will deal justly b by you ou In the lie future since they have not In the past S S I There Is another reason wh why the American political party part should not be given control of the public odi 11 Is The school taxes are already high The American party part entrusted wl wIlt h the conduct of the city affairs ra td cd the tax rate rale of the city tho ho very first year ear tIle the they were In control They made mad no attempt to live JIve within their Income The They raised the tle taxes and their expenditures have ha Involved hc city Ii In a quarter million dollars ollars of In Indebtedness In- In a a deficit of or two I and fifty thousand dollars at tIle the r very smallest po possible ible calculation The Tue ta tax 11 rate will I have ave to lo be raised raise again ain nt year ear What hat will vilI thc they do 10 with the school taxes ba busing basing your argument on what they ha have done In tho the past Why hy they will raise that thai They will increase In- In crease e that burden They will fatten fallen their thell political heelers with contracts as the they have ha fatten fattened d Mr 11 Pat Moran t with th contracts for the paving of the streets of the city There will be jobs In every piece of ground they bu buy for fora forfi a fi schoolhouse as there was a mammoth mammoth mam marn- moth tooth job from beginning to end of or the tic Cottonwood conduit There Thero will vilI begraft be begraft graft In the erection of every schoolhouse schoolhouse schoolhouse school- school house as there Is graft in the theater water ater office And there will be scandalous mismanagement of public office in the school control as ns there is today In theoffice the tho office of or the city treasurer Even with the best political party part in iii the world It would he be Improper to 10 demand partisan control of or the public public pub pub- lic lie schools With Ith a party part so palpably regardless less of its Us pledges so flagrantly wrong in Its adm administration of the o- o oC- oC flees that thaL have been entrusted to lo them with a pai party parl ty so o recklessly extravagant extravagant a gant with the peoples people's mane money it Is harmful In eVel every way It is rank lank insolence insolence inso inso- lence for fOl tho the PartY pall managers to ask sl co fot for I further v po power r W when the they have havo so openly abused the the- power cl they had And It would be bc folly tolly for the people to 10 trust thc them n again when that trust has been so palpably betrayed I |