The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-31
THE CANAL.
Judge Snow Has "Wster on the
Brain"
And Further DISCUSSES the Import
ant Question
In a Chatty Way.

u Hdi6r On the DTSln, anu 10 afOlu
q prolixity come at once to the poin
u and state When, where and how | 60
! liz. l will also state little of its efiec
i on me and On others. In so doing
D may state a few facts within M
personal knowledge.
e Flrst-It was plain to every mem
0 Der Of the Folly family when q part o
5 them first came to this territory thai
, water was the life-giving power, SC
! far as earthly material was concerned
to every earthly pursuit. II was also
clear to the eye and the taste that the
2 waters flowing from the mountains
we're as pure and apparently as
healthy as ever flowed in any place
on earth. The waters were fairly
delightful. Il was also clearly seen
that many of these streams, some OF
which were of considerable size flowed
into Utah Lake, to which there was
only one outlet, except evaporation;
that 1t was a natural reservoir. 1t
was further perceived that go long as
snow fell in the mountains there
would be supply to that lake and
the outlet was not enough to drain 1t
of. These were Gods works, not
mans. The land and the water were
both natural, fixed, settled and deter
mined. They were Gods gifts to the
Folly family. All the Folly family
who we're hers had 10 do was to sp-
propriate and use both the water and
the land, distributing each as neces-
sity required.
Second-I ieem it advisable to cay
few words about the origin and ex-
tent Of this Folly family. In SO doing,
whatever l may gay, l wish to be
understood as not using herein any
term in an offensive sense. | am q
member OF this Folly family. and |
glory in it. Perhaps this is wrong,
tut il 30, cannot help the glorying.
1t may, too, seem little like crow
ing; if so, the Folly family has raised
one Growing cock. This Folly family
Is very ancient, very numerous, but
not very honorable nor very wise, yet
they have produced all the Wise men,
all the Rights men, all the Prudent
men, all the Foresight men and all
the Aindsight men the world now has
or ever had, and some think they
will produce all that ever VIZ
be they have also produced
all the lawyers and doctors,
all the judges aud statesmen,
Legislators and city councilmen.
They have likewise produced ali
Ignorant men, all the knaVes and all
the fools, yet they have certain pro-
mineut characteristics. Among them
will be found sdsptsbility to their
condition, they do thing when they |
must, II two or more things need to
be done at one time, but all cannot
be then done, they will select one |
fret, grapple with it. and when they |
must they grapple with the rest.
They have police force called |
public opinion; this, the Folly family
think, so far as earth is concerned,
ls the power behind the throne. It
pulls Legislators and city councilmen
forward or holds them back 1t puts
the collar to their shoulder or ad.
justs the breeching. More than once,
Mr.. Editor, has the writer of this
article been pulled forward or held |
batk by it. He has had the collar
to his shoulders and the breeching
adjusted more than once, and, iguor-
ant as he is, he knows o little of its |
power. He has exceeded his statu-
tory powers, or come short of them,
more than once. But he has a rare
kuaok of sucking the knowledge tea.
OF the power behind the throne.
The City Council, the predecessors
l mean of the present, obeyed the
mandates of this power; nothing
more. They did right, or at least so
enc member of the Folly family
thinks, when they moved ahead. The
Foresight family thought so; tee Wise
man family thought SO; ths Prudence
family thought so; the Rights family
thought 90; the Folly fsmily,as usual,
looked on ready to back thsm. Had
this canal vote been taken then, one
mem Der of the Folly family has the
ass rance TO believe that you might |
have raked Salt Lake City with a fine
tooth comb through and through,
and no noes e1uli havs been found,
not one; but now the Hindsights
come up. Don't you see that white
heap, yonder =? Didn't tell you 30 ?
And the holy ores: We want the
money for Westinghouse.
Now, Mr.. Editor, 1 will tell you
another secret. In 1876, 1873 and |
1880, we, the Folly family, in har-
mony with all these other families
We were the people, you know
elected the members of our Legis.
lature which sat in these years. Ac-
cording to my recollection, every one
of them was selected from those other
families. Had ret these members
emanated from the parent stock the
Folly family would have been left
out, not Represented. But they did |
emanate nom The Folly family, and
were a part Of it. In these members
all were represented; ell views and
feelings were there to be found, at !
least, theoretically, and. l think, &C
tually. In 1876 some of these mem
bers came to me-ihey could 10 |
nothing without me, yOn know-snd |
said the Hindsight family had dis
covered that some of their water laws |
we're imperfect, and wanted to know
if l, the writer, could aid them IN
getting a good law. The writer |
frankly admitted his ignorance on the |
subject, but told them he had the |
water on the brain, and at some time |
said it had to be met. So, you see,
they saw it 6nd the writer saw it. 1t |
was thought the matter was Of great |
importance, but neither knew pre-.
cisely what to do; so it passed. The
same took place in 1873, the Fore.
sight men not then seeing what would
be the condition of affairs in 1879.
In 1876. 1878. and 1880. We, the
Folly family, elected our City Council,
ali Of whom again were taken from
the ranks of the other families. All
went well till 1879. Then as the
Foresight men had not seen the gray
heaps which came in 1879. We were
all in a muss. WHAT SHALL be done?
Our public opinion, that never-fRiliDg
remedy, come to our relief. 1t lit on
the City Council, they acted, trusting
the public opinion in the Legislature
would rstify and confirm their action.
The Legislators came together.
passed a law because the public
opinion police go ordered it. That
law is now fo- US to act upon. VIVA.
shall We do? 1t is back on US.