Show j NOT OT A t vr-nY vr Goon Po Possibly ibl the makers of oC the he Tribune think callin calling I 1 names S will answer the tho purposes o of ot argument Possibly they think I if the they refer reCer to an any as a Smoot mouth all the tho p people of or Salt Lake y l iU c r the mat mat- t ter tr r l. l That is error on the part of or the toe Tribune The Republican has voiced the ho reasonable complaints of ot actual citizens and property owners the owners the people who av 1 n the hin hills bills s of nf the thc city administration and who woo have a n night right to require that work orIc be he properly done lone The These e people complain that they have been forced bythe by bythe bythe the cit city to pay assessments assessment for sidewalk construction that tha the mone money has been paid in some cases nearly two years cars ngo ago and that the sidewalks have never been constructed It is not sufficient clent to shout Smoot Snoot mouth at that Other Othe citizens have not paid these assessments and have been notified that an int interest rest charge is being taxed against their homes homes and and yet ct not a Q tap of or work has been beth lone done on the sidewalks Why hy should the property owner pay interest when the tho city is not building the walk To whom does docs this interest go To the contractor But Buthe Buthe Buthe he has not expended hl his mone money in the Improvement He has has has' no right to levy an interest charge against the property property prop prop- crt erty owner owner Does Docs it Il go to the cit city What for Cor or The cit city has not even begun beun the work worl alth although ugh more than thann thana n a year ear has passed since the le levy was made and more than thana a year since the property owner has been notified that hewa he wa was vas being taxed interest 1 We we- m mentioned one or two cases There Thero are hundreds of them The North orth Bench has been especially insulted with incompetent work b by the elt city administration That region re-gion has been treated with a singular disregard for Cor the rights of ot the people and th the defense made b by the Tribune adds insult to Injury Then there Then there is the matter of oC intersections A Ar r r 1 iC i jj C study careful c S of or U a tu l c conditions L. L has as been been m made de I by byThe byThe The The Republican Republic n an and It Is found round that thai ha many cros crossings ings t that at should have been built to connect sidewalks that the citizens have been compelled to construct are still The intersections at the corners of oC these places where where the people have constructed their sidewalks are nl also aim o unmade and that Is a n part of ot the city's work worle It will hardly content the aggrieved property owner to o hear the tOe Tribune shout Smoot mouth when these things arc are mentioned It doesn't build build the crossings Cro Crossings and Intersections are arc as much a part of or the Improvement as arc are the toe sidewalks A street Is not paved when when n a portion only of each block Is Js paved laved A property 1 t fR nol not cd ed as contemplated when the sidewalk in front of the several everal pieces of or property is laid unless s all this sidewalk bo ho laid unless unless the Intersections are put ir in at the b block ck corners and unlesS 1 there are street crossings cross cross- ings Yelling Smoot mouth doesn't make mako the people any better er contented with a bad had lot than thC they were before And And It will not do cia to reply that some ome of the sidewalks were paid for under a n former Cormer a administration Are the people to un understand that the present administration re repudiates repudiates repudiates re- re th the contracts contracts' of the preceding administration That hat Is what the Tribune advances ad That wilnot will wil no not do llo Tho The city will vIll have to keep Its contracts contract When i It compels ls the p people ople to pa pay mone money into the public treasury treasur on the pretense of oC building a sidewalk it will have to build the Sidewalk f or give back the tho mone money And n no administration administration ad ad- ministration can evade lo the tho responsibility b by b saying laying the contract was made mado by 11 a former administration That Is Is repudiation pure and simple And while the Tribune may ilp to add aId repudiation to tho the Sheets case casi record the the people u of or Salt Snit Lake lale object The people ar are arc honorable and th they that the tho honor of or the ell b be I maintained It Is a pretty prett bad hul condition In which the Tribune finds find I itself Some OllO sl sidewalks l built and no intersections nor street crossings I s though ugh Iho ho city CILy has lias had more than a a. year ear o or of time in which t to complete the improvement Other s sid sidewalks paid for from one ono to two years ears ago and not a tap lap of or work worl done lone or contractor to la lay thos those sid sidewalks wal cs Othe citizens charged interest as m if it the work had been bee done and amI tho the mon money y expended r A whole section of oC the city robbed fobbed and laughed Ja at aL I I. reply is made the only only 7 rell reply I Is 15 lion tIon and billingsgate That I is not not n very good vcr a answer |