Show I The Party That Stops Improvements parl a i year ar ago ngo the lah tali l Light ight and Railway company bought a n further extension of its tracks in hi the city of Salt Lake The owners of oC the sf street r et car ur system system of this thiR city had devoted a great great- sum of money to the ement of the tho plant and and- and to to its extension every direction council air dominant ant desirous of there would bave been miles of Hues in sections of town toS tod to- to With a 1 ity eity ty an a n J party le really lly improvement new new S d But Bitt the council has stubbornly held up improvement day clay aft after r day clay and week eek affer after week n til the season i is ended ended and and the fhe company is so o far faras faras faras as final negotiations are concerned just where it was when S S A rear year has been lost lost- by the party that blo blocks ks progress S S P PP t P e cl has there been a bolder holder sr system of sandbagging of stubborn resist lc to improvement gem nL Never Ne has bas a party o of boasts so constantly belied its pretensions Here was a company bringing millions of capital for investment t. t in ill the city going ahead with new tracks buying property by the block and getting ready for terminals buying new rolling tol sto- sto k laying out ont extensions to sections of the lOW city where great areas of newly settled ground invited and and the thC city ity council has stopped them at every ery turn And yet jet et its pretended del demands have not been in the line Jine of public necessities S belief in the cit the that would have There is IS a seU settled led city that have e wanted anted to be lie seen that thai they have haye required greasing they granted every eQ proposition of the company if they the had b been n given money by the company re A say that is the general belief of the people And Aud every o incident in iu the year of filibustering makes t tile the theor theory plausible It would have ha meant an all increase in iii the value vahie of or residence property in every o direction Tt It would have lUl meant a n vast increase in the of the company in to town n. n It H would have e meant meant- the employment of hundreds of men all year and their expenditure of money in stores of Salt Lake It ft would have been a n public work of the very greatest value And it lias has been lu held up ill b v is called the Ole American la party tx We C do 10 not believe e an any company in in n the country has li-is ever h been eh more c consistently saud sandbagged bagged J by a municipal 1 council We Yc do 10 not b believe io c less reason for toi the dilatory tactics could be de devised iced Wedo Ve do 10 n not t. t li Jie r a more e flagrant Inis misuse lse of power to the geneI general l d detriment trim of ot tl the ity ity Ii has ts ever shamed the 1 of 01 a n party in this Union S I They are arC the people who stop improvements S 5 S S I or S j jJ J S z |