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Show End Board of Trade, where the business men gather and enter into debates, pro and con, on all public issues. Our contention is that there is no excuse for poor government while there is open to the American people, at all times, the right of protest through these self-constituted guardians of municipalities. As to Mr. Cuming's self-elected special work, we commend it to our men of means those who desire to be of good to their home cities in a more than passive way. These personally pursued investigations inves-tigations must prove of incalculable benefit, because they supply authentic information from a reliable source and tend to lift a people out of those retarding provincialisms which come from a feeling of self-sufficiency engendered by a lack of contact and exchango of views with those just over the ridge. AN ALTRUISTIC CITIZEN. I Mari A. Cuming, a manufacturer of Brooklyn, New York, is in Ogden on the first part of a tour around the world. He is not oufc on a wager and has no other object in view than that of advancing the best interests of his home city by a careful study of municipal government in other cities of this and other countries of the world. He aims to gather data which will be of service to the people of Brooklyn , in the solving of big problems such a3 water supply, gar. bage disposal, sewage and transportation. He has a letter from Mayor Gaynor, written a few days before the shootirjg on the Wil-helm Wil-helm der Gros3e, in which the New York executive commends Mr. Cuming's altruistic labors. When Mr. Cuming returns to Brooklyn he will present his collection col-lection of facts and recorded information to the West End Board of Trade, which is something more than a board of trade, as commonly com-monly known, in that it is an organization of prominent men who make it a part of their duty to keep posted on city affairs and, within their organization, discuss all phases of municipal government. The Standard has advocated some such organization, to be made up of all property holders and devoted exclusively to studying municipal problems. The Standard's plan has been on somewhat broader lines, throwing open the organization to any citizen of the community and offering to all a voico in city government, for commendation com-mendation or criticism. Mr. Cuming states that these boards of trade have been in existence exist-ence in Brooklyn for twenty years, but only of late have they been made active and vigilant in safeguarding the public welfare. There is a club in Kansas City somewhat similar to the West |