Show TAX X LEVY Y AGAIN G. AND THEY RAISED n. TUB THE I of or mills h hero rc Never Nevel mind refining on the fractions and the farthings there The rho city lt council ral raised 1 the tax result of Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- understood levy e again asan That Is ls the easily day nights night's session It Is a burden hurden that should not have bf been boen en laid upon thc will re resent enL It ItIs Imposition that they I tho the people Ufa an I Is tho the climax o of elg eighteen months of ot the most profligate b city council coun coun- business that has over ever been heen conducted by any 1 size of Salt Lake cast Lake east or west It Iti Itis cil cli in all any ally city of ot tho the conclusive proof o of Incapacity which has i I is the tho and ancl f been chars charged cl against the members of ot the present council from the tho Yer very first filSt meeting thc they held helcl 4 What Is tho the reason for Jt It I Tartly Partly a desire to mal make o a 1 splendid showing of adt advancement advancement ad ad- but principally because the themen themen themen t of oC Improvement men In control of oC the council are arc not competent business men That Is the chief chic cause for their blunders When Moran 1 thousand dollars they In Inaugurated inaugurated In- In th they gave Pat seven seventy their system of ot rant flagrant extravagance ance The They were Incapable of ot measuring tho the financial consequences of ot their acts netS The They have not been heen successful In business themselves and they are arc not trained d for the tho discharge of the tile big duties that rest upon the representatives of or the people In a cit city the size of or Salt Ial Lake Lale e. e It cost a 1 good deal to finance the their r part party They t C had one ono a advantage vantage the the fact that their record was clean There was nothing against them because tho they ha had done one noU nothing T That was In their favor B But t the they had a goo good deal lea to contend with The They ha had no organization It cost mone money to bu buy that organization The They ha had to give place to men men of or Influence In handling votes Tho They were unable to redeem those promises with legitimate returns from official E servIces service and extraordinary Jobs were necessary sary Extraordinary expenditures of or the public mone money were e also necessary Each councilman each city official r. r Is own n obligations 8 y to meet e. e Every rr one one- no had t to m re than tho regular proper com com- rolls roUs wern Tho The number of ot jobs was vastly astl increased There was evidenced nce 1 a disposition dis position n to spend the public money and a hor horde o of cormorants cormorants cormorants cor cor- besieged the party and the officials an and would not be bo denied It was a case of oC loot from the beginning And the trouble about that system Is Js that It grows worse the farther i It ft t goes They had no prudence The They had no experience They could not look ahen ahead The They had Iad no means of 1 knowing what hat would be tho the consequences of their acts And h before fore the they new knew It they had spent all their money had exhausted resources had bad ad Imperiled tho the credit of oC the best city In the West cst and had to raise the tax levy levyas as the one means ans of ot tiding them over the thc first year of or their Incumbency That act o oC Of raising the levy in July 1906 angered t the people This American party was put pul in power Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the ver very reason that It was supposed to bo ho better than ny any ny other council could possibly be Economy and good management had been promised for It Nothing of the thel l kind was as realized The Tho taxes were raised Then thc they went forward for another year ear spending money with all the tho prodigality o ot of a a. Croesus as 1 if t there ere were no possible limit to It as I If it there were plenty plent more where the w wasted dollars had bad come from as if ir there thero were never coming a a da lay day of or reckoning And here hero Is the tho keeping of oC all their promises an promises another an- an 0 other raise In taxes It will not take care caro of oC the o obligations thc they nave ave made the the city assume assume II Il will not nearly pay pay ay tho the bills they have contracted It leave leavo a bigger burden 01 on onI I 1 J whatever corps of officials succeed them In office The y that co could happen to tho the city would be bo to leave tho the city another term In control of ot tho the Incompetent In insincere In- In 1 sincere sincere untrained weak and nud wicked men who now si sit in lu the city clu council and draw pay as us general officers |