Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 32: October 15, 1897Since that time the condition of Salt Lake City, in its municipal capacity, has been brought forcibly to the atten tion of leading citizens. The city finances are in a very bad condition. The prospect ahead is a very gloomy one, unless a thorough reform is made. Every property-holder feels heavily burdened with taxation. Steps have been taken to form a non-partisan organization, for the purpose of electing business men regardless of parties to the municipal offices. It has been looked upon' as very proper to divorce the management of the city and its affairs from politics, and to elect to offices citizens who would conduct the affairs of the corporation in a business manner, reduce expenses, lessen taxation, and make such reforms as will check the evils which, it is felt, have crept into the government of the city. Both the Democratic and Republican parties have arrayed themselves against this plan. They are using every means in their power to throw discredit upon the move ment. Almost every sort of argument is being used to prejudice the people against the non-partisan ticket. Know ing the effect of ridicule on many minds, the opponents of this plan are employ ing this with great freedom, if the non partisan movement can only be made ridiculous in the eyes of the people, the politicians will think they have site ceeded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.