| Show AS S TO SEW GO Soma Somo of ot the g gentlemen who protest against the tho Des Moines plan plan plan-or or tho Salt Lal Lake o plan plan plan-of of city government declare tho the legislature 13 JS usurping tharl the tha rl rights of ot tho the people that tho plan should have been submitted to the eU before enactment people of or this city of ot tho bill blU so that tho the ell city could say whether or not it wanted to tr try the new plan The same samo point might bo be raised re regarding regarding re- re garding an any legislation touching th the state tato Not ot a law could In that case bo be put into operation without submit submit- tinS ting It to tho people if It the tho principle is sound Bound that tho the new municipal plan should be bo submitted to the tho people of ot I tho city Under tho method of or government established In the United States people people peo peo- pie at nt largo large elect representatives to sit in tho the senate enato and tho the lower house and thc they char charge o those representatives to make laws for 01 the state The Tho princIple principle prin prin- ciple of demanding that laws enact enacted d be bo submitted to tho the people before enforcement en en- Is wholly aside from irom tho Ito representative principle of ot government government government govern govern- ment d by tho nation And Anid it is not fair to apply tho the terms terms' like Yahoo country lubber and terms to representatives from the tho out- out counties Wo Yo haven't seen any reason for them to b be shamed b by comparison with their city brethren In the tho le legislature legis legis- ls- ls lature aturo tills this season eason Also It Is especially out of oC for tho the present city authorities to complain complain com corn plain plaint at tho the new system of oC conducting municipal affairs Tho The management emont of or the tho city has hns been so 50 bad hd In the tIne past three years It han hati so o utterly disgusted minded fair minded fair ed men of ot all parties that those responsible for tor it should hide their heads in shame They are aro not in good position to demand a n. continuance contin contin- of ot the present system Th They have prove proved It FO so o bad that anything isan la is laan an improvement ment |
