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Show $&m KIND AND UNKIND. mk! .' ' It Is ery kind of our conteinpoiar . to come forwaid and piove our recent f , contention conceinlg tlio bold lola- tlons of Chapter 125, Laws of Utah, 1911, on the pint of Uemorffuto mem- f, beis of the city council of this city. I ' It lsNeiy unkind, howeer, for It to U puiadu the flguies befoie tlio public, & Bn something these gentlemen ' ceitalnl) gt, gf will not lellsh I '-' ll wl" ue lenieiubeied that In oui ffivHvi issue uf July l.Uli we quoted the stu- ftHr (1"L '" llllt-'8lluu' "-s' offltei of uu BjKl oltj , town or municipal 101 potation ImP shall bo dlieutl) oi iiidliettly Inter- i'.kaSS ested In uny coutiaet, woik or busl- wMpLc " ness,, or lu the sale of any article, the i!HjK'T expense, price, 0 consideration of K' -RLV which is paid fiom the tieasui), oi , f Bfe lj any assessment loled by un act P$ wp . or oidluanco." WplBF " Wo then called utteutlou to tlio E'Sv fact that the city vouclitis showed f fl ' that thioe of tlio Ucmociailc membeiB y a luul claims for moicli.uullse, service. ft M etc., monthly, and proed bejoml tlio 0 iiuestlon of a doubt that these genllo S'.B men weie nctlug lu violation of law rtQm Now, piesumablv in older to '' Tjl 1 j ' clinch our contention, thanks to ou r neighbor, our tiuld neighbor comes JtfflM foiward and gives tho figures In Its HHl lagt Issue says- "Going through the list of appioprlatlons to aundrjjclty . officials for materials or service reni dcred, from January 1st, 1310, until. June 30th of "this year, we find that; Councilman 'fcvans', a Democrat heads the list with $396.33, for pipe." Conn-sllmnn Conn-sllmnn Griffin han drawn, $110.05' for material und woik furnished." Conn-cllman Conn-cllman Hay bull hurt drawn $118.15 chiefly for gum boots, coal oil and I matcilals furnished at the current market price.' Kurtljor on It continues: contin-ues: "It Is true that throe of the live Democratic couilollmeii have cither furnished goods .materials or labor nnd lecelved In payment tho sums nampd." No further evidence then Is necessary. Wo made tho charge, qtiotcd the law, and our contemporary contempor-ary sponsor for tho said councllnien confirms It ,gle tho flguies. Thanks again, neighbor The truo meaning, and c.'.teat of the proof submitted by our neighbor might bo Intcaostlng. Lot us analyse tho figures for a few moments. He-member He-member they cover n period of six months. Now these gentlemen havo sened for a period of two years, Hv-nnB Hv-nnB excepted, who has served four ycais, lirlor to the six months pcilod which tho flguies cover. It Ib reasonable reason-able to suppose that tho amounts fnlr-ly fnlr-ly repiesent what they have drawn for other periods of tho same length of time duilng their official career, at least the amounts would not be less, as during tho past six months times havo been dull and It Is only reasonable to suppose expenses would be curtailed At this sate then, Lynns Ly-nns would hao diuv.ii for nine six month's peilods, or $3,507.15. Nice llttlo llt-tlo "hltem" to bo pulled off the old evoMng wheel by "the only dealer in Logan lu tho class of pipe furnished." furnish-ed." Griffin for flvo poiloda would liuw! pulled down, at tho same rate, $550 25 Neat little sum because "no one hnd any objection," nnd our neighbor neigh-bor will perhaps say because no one else could hae done tho work, notwithstanding not-withstanding tho many excellent woik-men woik-men In Griffin's class Oh what would we do without Gilffln? Uless you, Griffin do not leave us. Figuring on tho same basis Haybnll would have I diiiAn $590 05 another neat llttlo sum, I all'of which are submitted for tho i consideration of the citizens of Logan Lo-gan who expect their officials to be observers, and not violators of law ' Going on our neighbor says: "It Is equally true, also, that but one Republican Re-publican council member, Mr. S. O. I Stevens, has sold an) thing to the city, for the good and sufficient ren-' ren-' son, possibly, that neither of the ip-i ip-i malnlng four deal lu nn thing the city finds It necessary to buy. The extent of Mr. Stevens sales was $205.90." Now neighbor, If you will bo reasonable, and tell the truth you know Mr. Stevens has not furnished the city with one dollar's worth of meichandlso. You know that the purchases pur-chases to which you refer were Vur-chased Vur-chased from the Sidney Stevens Implement Im-plement company, a corporation founded nnd oaganlzed by Councilman S. O. Stevens' honored nnd respected father, a company with lieadquaiteis -at Ogden, Utah, and with n branch office t Logan manngeied by S. O. i Stevens Why can't you team to tell tho truth neighbor? Again our neighbors ciack "for the good and sufficient leason, possibly, pos-sibly, that neither of tho lomalnlng four deal In anything tho city finds It necessary to buy" Is amusing. Is not that a lofty statement for a news paper) to make? If they did deal In Biieh ns "tho city flndB It necessary to buy" it would bo nllrlght would it neighbor? Why not then go Into busl-nebs busl-nebs as Kvtins & Sons apparently did. Just to sell, to tlio city? From our neighbors reabonlng it would bo all light. Any llttlo grafts that might be wmked up for tho benefit of council-men council-men evidently suits our neighbor, and tho only reason ou couni'lliiien who have not been highly fiivocd Is because be-cause you havo not gono Into some business that tho city finds It necessary neces-sary to deal In Hut to cap tho climax, and appaient-1) appaient-1) alluie tho citizen away from the m-ln Issue ,tho astute, learned, pro found, llttlo gentleman down the stioet covers up the entire violation of )aw on the giounds thut wo have not learned of hny objection o tho allow ance of tho bills." Come on, corao on, now. you 'don'tt rcnlly think tho- peo-ploraie,tlch peo-ploraie,tlch novices as toswalloW such superannuated hot air. V Our pleonastic friend, whoso verbiage,' ver-biage,' llko cobbejs wax, Ms used to cover a. multltudo of sins, cannot find plausible enough language in this case to cover up tho "snaps .and perquisites" per-quisites" which are dally dropping Into In-to tho maw of thoso who aro obsequiously obse-quiously pulling nt tho public teat. Go tol Logan people may havot taint of tho verdant In their ee, but thoy are not green all over, as yet. It Is very easy to cry "Vox I'opull, Vox Del," but the word "discrimination" Is still being spelled with a "A" nnd In this case a cnpltal letter must bo used. |