Show VOICES arox THE PEOPLE the and the city the 1 license ralp tile 1 I R G R 11 1 EDITOR HERALD in a corn muni cation over the signature citizen in your issue of last friday are bome some very correct assertions respecting the manner in which the railroad rait roads have discriminated against utah ingene in general raland and ogden people in parti particular cidar but when he comes to the city government and ita its affairs he ev exhibits hibits a lack of information as to facts and ino tives which is worthy of notice first w to his proposition that hat t if a company or individual buy every everywhere where and sell nowhere if everything ie is outgo and nothing income the concern or individual must mutt fail tho the writer heartily concurs but ho lie would ask Ci citizen tien when ogden city has been buying anything from abroad which could have been purchased at home or when and in what case the city government has compelled its merchants to purchase in any particular market or prohibit ita its bu bushier men from exporting to any lilly foreign market any c commodity which they happen to have nave fur for ealy sale the assertion is simply so much sem eleis twaddle laving having no foundation in fact the city has not been trading or braf peking ticking in any commodity whatever or jr controlling vont cont roling r attempting to control the citizens of iu in heir their business juji ness at luire from the statement that the city has aas madeno endeavor to made the railroads stand up to their agreement one would suppose or might infer that there was soror some agreement existing between the city and nud the railroad companies but so far ar as the writer is aware and his opportunities for information are reust reasonably mably good there is dot a scintilla of truth in the insinuation the cuy city has no agreements with the raif railroad roads which the railroads railroad refuse to comply with nor is it the roper proper province of the tile city to en force orce contrast between the railroad railroads and the citizens there are courts accessible competent and having uris diction to hear try and dete determine all such matters whether citizen hag has become aware of that 11 a act ct or n not t ae As to the drummers license it is a question about which people dif far er as to whether or not they ought to 0 o pay a license some cities require it t while others do not the majority of the ogden city council Counci Larein are in favor of the license and in the exercise of their judgment proper to have the ordinance framed by their predence predecessors sors to stand As aalthe bootblacks citizen is 1 as much off ott his base I 1 ns IS he is on other matters the paltry sura sum ot of 40 per annum was no part of I 1 the inducement to exact a license of bootblacks tho the facts arc are th that at the city waa was overrun with a class class of I 1 little tramps that were not rilly t stealing everything they could grit get their lianda hands on oil but were a nuisance to 4 the he public generally cen orally they were citizens of ogden with few exceptions and the city was wit put to more expense in prosecuting rosec them for thieving any and other vicious babeta than the council thought I 1 it waa was good for the taxpayers and it was in order to rid the town of I 1 thi pernicious transient element that the license was imposed I 1 they would crowd into crockery crates behind tho the stores and with lighted caf candles idles at thus endanger the property of the whole business part of the town while they played card i and other games for their amusement the writer agrees with Ci citizen that the D R liko like other corporations hos has no soul it is alao a fact that it has no seat to ita its troupere and that is u why the by byi i standers emile smile when citizen goes through ugh the mano manc euver of kicking at t tho h c empty space where the seat of the pantaloon pantaloons ought to be CITIZEN v jan 21 1884 |