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Show Y RETRACTION. ) In our last Saturday's Issue on pago 1, column 2 wo I mado reference to ttio city street supervisor as no i doubt being "busy hauling city gravel paid for by i tho citizens onto an alleged prlv-tito road." Wo j learn from tho street supervisor that the road Is j not n prlvato road, as nllcged. Wo did not mako tho jl statement as a fact, the sources of tho Information 1 being of such character as to Justify us In publish- Ing our statement In good faith. Now wo learn from j tho street supervisor and others that tho road In t question is not a prlvato road and as the factB do ii i not appear to bear out tho allegations wo desire to f say that tho reference to tho prlvato road matter r, j i was erroneous and to retract all reference thereto. . This In Justice to tho street supervisor. j j (REFERRED TO HON. P. C. NELSON f i Now that the stntus of tho road where tho fcf j , street supervisor Is reported to havo been hauling J so much gravel has been determined, somo fines- ') ' j tlons npper.r to bo pertinent. Just whero Is this road located? How far Is this road from tho otreet supervls- ; or's homo? Is It on a direct rout trom tho street supervisor's super-visor's home and the center of tho city? '1 . How much gravel wqb put on this road? 'f How much did the city pay for It? M ' HaB as much gravel been put on any other , ' ,j street In tho city? f ! Has as much gravel been put on nny two streets I In tho city? . j Has us much gravel been put on nny threo I ' i streets In tho city? j Was any gravel put on the sidewalk and If so " how much? f Was tho gravel put on this streot a crying ne- r. ccsslty ns compared with other streets? , What did tho street supervisor give as his rea- f" I son for doing so much work on this road? j , Theso questions aro respectfully referred to Hon. P. C. Nelson. j ! THE PUBLIC OFFICIAL Yesterday wo heard It Intimated that a certain , ' ' prominent gentleman In tho city has sold It was ' spite work on the part of tho threo gentlemen who recently complained that tho street supervisor was storing giant powder within th0 city limits nnd contrary to tho city ordinances. Wo wcro sorry to hear this and know that nothing Is further from tho truth. Tho only motlvo was to get the pow. 't dcr removed and establish tho responsibility. Wo nro Informed that tho street supervisor (was terribly hot under tho collar, and was making "heap big talk." Well, now that ho has had tho tlmo to cool off, perhaps It will bo enough to say J that either of tho threo complaining witnesses will thank htm for complaining against them when they ! store powder In his door yard. Now this entire business grieves us. In tho , t first place wo don't like tho facts. Wo would much rather tho facts had been otherwise. In the ! second place wo don't Uko to criticise tho street department, and we aro Informed that tho gentlemen gentle-men mnklng up this department do not like tho "peppery" criticisms turned In their direction.. Munnurlngs as to partiality etc, havo been frequent of late, and we dlBllko to hear criticisms hurled at our officials, but what Is worst of all Is fdr them to get sore nnd say that cltiiong don't know bat they aro talking about and that they will lay for ' so and so If they aro not permitted to do as they , please, as It Is alleged somo of thorn hare done. 1 It would appear to bo much more In keeping with , ? their positions If they would maintain tho position ( , ,' that as representatives of tho city thoy are doing f their best to carry out tho In, treat nil altVs, nnd i profit by timely criticism. ' ), Oinclnls should always remember that they are S elected to servo tho people, and Innsmuch ns they h aro elected to occupy tho position of public official, E f they must alBo elect to tako tho brunt of crltl-Ir crltl-Ir ' ' clsm that goes with It. And when they do things that their constituents do not like, It Is qulto nut-iS nut-iS , ural for said constituents to bo resentful and the :' ' official who, Uko the cigar coon, Is willing to place : j his head In a holo for base balls to be thrown nt, j U must bo content with his lot, nnd go nhend doing 1 his duty to the best of his ability . After all tho rolo of tho public official Is not an easy one, and tho success achlovcd during a f, ' Bhort period of official llfo is moro or less deter-" deter-" mined by tho ability ono possesses to hold his head, carry criticism, and perform tho duties of ' I ' , his offices without fear or favor. Ifc XI ? T Kjjfc WHY FREE TRADE HURTS fife " Bpeaklng ot a revised tariff law, there is ono Hfe , thing which American statesmen always seem in- J,"! Je capable of learning. Tho theory ot freo trado Is Pt IK' n correct one in thd" abstract, but tho vital thlnr Kg '' ' ' which Is overlooked io the need of keeping money Ef. l( m Iho country. American legUlatlon generally fig- I"1' ' ' ' ures Uko a spendthrift boy who has a rich father Jk ' that It doein't matter how much he spends; the ? j old man can fix it. ,1 England never tried free trade untU by rig- 1 ,, , orous tariff laws she gathorod more than her hare f lof the wealth ofplae-world,, and -by her dlscrlm,tna- tfWM-1MW"" II Bl ! , f ting tariff laws had killed tho manufactories in Ireland Ire-land and turned that Island over to famine She never tried freo trade until sho had her manufactories manufac-tories all established, her ships on evory sea, and more money In her strong boxes than perhaps all tho rest of tho world combined. And when Bho established es-tablished freo trado sho did not Intend that nny other country should send her goods and collect money from her for them. Her thought was sho would deliver her goods to all the world and tako In oxchange their raw products, carry them back to England, manufacture them, then return them to tho countries from which sho had obtained them and get moro raw products, nnd when theygave out, get tho money. Her plan to glvo a. bolt of cloth for a bale of wool, and so on through the list, was ono sho could work with Impunity upon tho outside world, nnd when wc como to look at how things were, sny nt about tho tlmo our great civil war broke out, nnd tho Morrcll tnrlff bill was passed In our country, she had tho world pretty nearly dead broke. All but Franco. Franco could beat her at hor own gamo because aho had, been for n thousand years perfecting her nrts nnd her practical sciences nnd could make goods ns cheap j as England, could tnko n yaw material nnd Infuse a j llttlo French brain Into it nnd mako It valuable, bettor thnn Unglnnd could. England's own colon- j les had to build up n tariff wall around themselves I to keep their own mother from robbing them. And j tho United States was kept dead broko for years. Even when California had Bent In seven years her first live hundred millions of dollars which was n tremendous sum In those days from the California Cali-fornia mines, tho panic of '57 struck our country and It wns discovered that all the gold was gone, nil but about fifty millions of dollars. England had It In her strong boxes, and our warehouses were groaning under tho weight of British goods.. This Is tho danger that confronts the country now. If a man presents a check for a million dollars dol-lars at the Dank of England, ho Is asked what he Intends to do with the money. If ho replies that ho is going to send It out of the country, tho rate of discount is nt onco raised. The reasoning that tho poor man in America ought to bo ablo to buy what he hqs to buy In. tho cheapest market, on Its face, at least, is most fair; but when, to sccuro that, such an arrangement Is mado that all tho loose money is sent nwny, 'nnd tho poor man has not a cent with which to pur-chnso pur-chnso what he needs, then the theory falls to the ground. Tho country will rest In moro or less nnxlety until tho now tariff law which Mr. Wilson 'says Is going to reform but not to hurt, Is passed.- Salt Lako Telegram. ' ! $ " THE PROPOSED INCOME TAX Tho Washington correspondent ot the New York Tribune sends out tho Information that the Democrats aro determined upon tho imposition of an lncomo tax. This, as wo havo pointed out heretofore, here-tofore, Is a completo departuro from tho Democratic Democrat-ic protestation of economy and tho promise of a reduction of tho expenses of tho Government. Indeed, In-deed, tho Democratic pretenso for such economy wns thrown to tho wind by the recent Democratic House, which, whllo denouncing the extravagance of the previous Republican" sessions actually ,rqj!e'dy up appropriations amounting to nearly $100,000000 "' larger than any other session of Congress had ap proprlated. lly reason of tho Democratic complaints agalnBt Republican extravagance and Democratic promises of economy if that party were given power, wo had reason to expect that even after such reduc-. tlons fn tho tariff schedules as tho Democrats might propose, there would still bo ample money left to run tho government without the Imposition of ad-.i dltlonal taxes. Dut all at onco wo find as antW undoubted and determined purposo on the part of tho Democrats for an Imposition ot an Income tax. at tho very first Congress succeeding tho Constitutional Consti-tutional amendment which allows ot tho Imposition Imposi-tion of that tax. This is an inconsistent proposition proposi-tion altogether on the part ot tho Democrats, nnd Is n tnx burden which tho country had no reason to expect that tho Democrats would impose upon It. , ' The correspondent referred to gives n consistent consis-tent Idea ot what It Is that the Democrats propose. Ho Bays that the bill that will bo reported by the Democrats will tax all Incomes in excess ot $3500. Representative Hull of the House Ways and Means Committee, who Is called tho Income tax expert of the House, is quoted aB favoring a tax ot one per cent on nil earned Incomes In excess ot $3600 and a tax of one and one-halt per cent on unearned incomes, in-comes, and a graduated higher tax as the amount ' ot the income increases. Ilight hero Hepresenta-' tlve Hull would raise a question as to tho validity of tho tax which he proposes, for oven under the lncomo tax amendment It is doubtful if Congress would have tho power to mako a discrimination in tho rate of taxation bb between earned lncomo nnd Income recolved from inherited estates or Invested , principal. The Intent evidently Is to make a distinction dis-tinction between the wage earnor who may earn moro than $3600 a year and tho one who gets ' abovo $3500 a year from investment that ho has not himself earned. Whether tho Supreme Court woutd affirm a distinction like this is a, question; but it can generally bo assumed that n legislative body will bo pretty sure to raise questions for the courts to settlo. Tho rate of taxation proposed, ono per cent, say up to $10,000, 1b not severe. Hut as wo have ' clearly shown, nnd tho fnct ovldotly Is, tho country hnd no reason to expect that tho Democrats would Impose any additional tax at all, either by way of lncomo tax or otherwise; for tho Domocrata have been blatant In insisting that tho Government's revenues wore far above the needs of tho public; that the Republicans were extravagant and wastel ful In making appropriations that they did; and n havo been loud In their promises that If tho Demo- '' crats wore given power thero would be such econ- ! omy In tho Governmental expenditures as would relieve the people from large burdens of taxation. And Io, at the vory first opportunity, tho Demo- crats get, they propose to Impose an Income tax, '' a form of taxation that ought not to bo resorted , to oxcopt In some Governmental crisis Uko tho ' Civil War; nnd the Imposition of it clearly gives tho lie to all of their promisee of economy, and to . their Indignant arraignments of tho Republican party par-ty for extravagance and waste. Salt Lake Trl- bune, i . - . - |