Show FALSE PRETENSES One of tho thc things about the Kearns administration of city city affair is the fact that tile the people in authority author author- ity It It never arc are quite frank frauk with the people Day Da after day the people arc deceived d by 13 the Kearns crowd That crowd got sot position by fn false e pretenses lenses aud an they the are arc defending their I adminIstration of affairs b by more false falso pretenses For POI one thins thing th they r tell those those- people whore us assessments have been becu raised raise that a Jaw law of the late legislature makes the Hie raise necessary That is a false claim chain and the lie pet peo people Pie who wlm make It know It Jt to b be false Tub The only law lav enacted by lI the late lute legislature affecting the payment for Improvements is one which makes It Il necessary for the work worl to be done before the tLe t e property owner lI r is ii compelled to pay ny his fj m ment l. l An And thai hat Is a la law It II doesn't t tat at all increase the coL cObL Previous fous to that the tIle had bad been forcing the people to pa pay when the thc estimates were ma wade made e. e An And in hi hundreds re s of cases the citizen paid pal an and the work never has been done lu In other hundreds the property owner paid un and the work ork was not done one oner r for far r a year eal lt In still other cases the work was delayed de e. e lae for fer two t wo years ears But Dul the big offense against ju justice Uce and decency and right was in inthe inthe the Instances where the Cite citizen had to pay for improvements that never were made And AutI they cant can't get their mone money r returned t even yet t. t ro To prevent a cOll continuance nuan of that a abuse U e the made a law requiring re Fe- quiring fl contractors to complete the work before the tho l property Opert owner Was was compelled comp to pay par for It It didn't need wait walt till Ull the whole sidewalk for had been b en finished When the work was completed in front of or a apiece apiece piece o of property then the owner o of that property had to pay And that is as soon as he should have lm paid There Is la no reason in Jus Justice tice or right wh why the HI people should pay at the tho time line of or the tho assessment not whether the tho work worl ever eyer would be be done done and and certain c that in many cases as assessments had bad been paid and the work worl never no even commenced That was another case of or getting m money ne b by false pretenses The Tho law does not at all chango change the amount to be bo paid and aull does docs not make the work more expensive S Plenty of property owners were no- no tHI tilled Il Ila a year y ar ago that their assessments assessments assess assess- ments would be 3 a certain amount and arc aro aronow now being informed by tile the same city city- officials that the assessment will willbe willlie lie be ne nearly rl twice what vas Avas first ap up- portioned That bat Isn't right and aud it Isn't The old a assessment should stand What will tho they do o in the tho case of citizens citi cUi zens ens who paid paltI They The cannot be com compelled corn com pelted to pay pa- again and again and pa pay more Therefore the old assessment and aud notice will be binding on the city Another reprehensible practice of the tho Kearns city officials was noted In those cases where the they made contracts I with their pets and aud then theu after assessing assess assess- ing lug the tho citizens on the basle basis of those contracts or contracts or the estimates on which tho contracts rested rested permitted permitted their nets nets nets' to withdraw and antI surrender the contracts contract Then they gave gmo them other contracts at nt greatly increased sums That ma made e tho the property owner la pay more than would have been necessary necessary naces- naces sar sary if the contractor had been held beld to his Ilia contract just contract just as the citizens archeld are arc held beld to their contracts They find no favor favor In lu the eyes of or the crowd They have to pay But the contractor contractor contractor tor having sonic fome votes oles to deliver was r 0 L J i j 1 i l t t J i.- i. b l i I t i oo l j i. i t. 1 ii allowed to abandon his bis contract and I get set a n new ono one at an advanced price I F False lse pretenses and bad ball faith mark marl tho Reams Kearns crowd crowel management of public C affairs fIa Irs But Bul In nothing is the tho thoi action more offensive than in this mat mat- i I of special assessments for ImI im- im j I pro |