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Show THE CITY HALL QUESTION. In spite of the 'Journal's labored reply, we still insist that the location proposed is not the place for the city hall. In a very few 'years it will be business! property of the most valuable! kind, and then it ( would pay enough -in taxes to cover the cost of hall rental. - j The Nation does nf)t rinrvnc The Nation does not oppose the building of a city hall. Logan Lo-gan needs one badly and has needed one for many years. The Democrats have been in1 power eight years but they did! very little toward building the hall until after the recent election, when they were snowed under. Now, in the two months left of their time, they fall over each ' other to award , the contract for' such a building at a time of the' year when it will' be impossible to begin the structure for six months at least, and until after mey are gone from office and their official life forgotten. Plainly, their desire is to get everything possible into Democratic Demo-cratic hands before they retire. The new ha'l should be centrally cen-trally located but it should not - bc on business property. If it'! vveje half a bio, k from 'the' court1 r , it would not bc-tcefarawj j ln Sa!t Lae the ciiy and "coun-! ty building is three blocks from ' the business center. The gov-! eminent building is two hlorl-J. away and on a small sidestreet. It is better for a public office building to be away from the noise and jostle of the main business busi-ness center. J We also still insist that it will I be best not to build a hall ahead! of the city's needs. Additions I can be made as necessity re-! quires, and if there is a surplus, I it win be better to apply it on existing indebtedness. Very little honar attaches to the present pres-ent Democratic administration . for Obtaining the'money, as they merely sold city land to the highest high-est bidder. |