| Show r = D = J it2 < t 1 A CHEAP GOVERNMENT It is gaid that Salt Lake City is cheaply governed that its taxes are light its expenditures ex-penditures small and its debts moderate i i The assertion seems strange in view of the large salaries of the city officers but seems reasonable in the light of what we get for the money It is so cheap that our fire department is unable to get to a conflagration without i with-out pressing into service private teams found on the streets and requiring from 20 to 45 minutes to reach the scene of I i danger It is KO cheap that our city of 25000 inhabitants in-habitants is guarded by fourteen policemen police-men of whom perhaps five are on duty at a time It is so cheap that our policemen have no uniforms and a citizen can not know whether he is being hauled around by a public official or a highway robber It is so cheap that the city is practically without protection and burglaries petty thievery and even incendiarism abounds It is so cheap that for onethird of the year the unfortunate pedestrian wallows in mud ankledeep along sidewalks innocent in-nocent of pavement It is so cheap that onehalf the gutters of the city hold stagnant water breeding disease It is so cheap that there is not a public school in the city which will rank in efficiency effi-ciency with the average of the country schools of Illinois It is so cheap that pestilencebreeding refuse is allowed toaccumulate on public and private premises from one end of the city to the other It is so cheap that nearly onefourth of the city is without a supply of pure water It is so cheap that when the fire alarm begins its clamor there is no way to stop the din till the fire is put out the engine sent home and the insurance loss adjusted ad-justed and paid Verily the government of the city of Salt Lake is a cheap one in many respects res-pects |
