Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-11-22
CAMPAIGN QUESTIONS.
Free Water and Free schools a
False Cry.

Correspondence Of the DEsEREI
NEwsl.-I have heard considerable
on the above topics, and read some,
and I have been trying quite 4 time
TO get it through my not over IT,
ceptive Uranium, so TINT / might
lie able, not only TO understand the
matter myself but explain it to
others.
This free water business is some
what Of mystery, save it he in
Gould England" or in the eastern
States, where Jupiter Pluvius dis
Penses it at times, in quantities
without money and without
price"
But even there, according TO the
best authorities and some expert
ence, much Of the water supply is
anything but free; there are water
taxes and bonds almost beyond cal
culation, or what Of the Croton and
Schuylkill Of the east, and Bala
Lake, Rivington Pike and Father
Thames OF England?
Now our "Liberal'' friends NAV
have favor enough above TO give
us Manchester weather where il
rains three hundred DAYS in the
year but on consideration | doubt
much whether they have influence
save il be with "the Prince of the
power Of the air.
Now having lived in Utah for long
over thirty years, can l discern anv
signs Of free water from the first 10
date? To be sure it was free In n
sense, once, but in its freedom, II
hurried itself without ceremony
toward the Jordan and 'sNirvaua;,
in the lake; and 1t cost me with
others many weary day and many
a dollar besides, to coax ii onto our
barren lots, where now the vine
nourishes and the peach ripcns TO 1
the sun! What a pity, my aching
bones, that the genii OF free water.
had not then drifted into our hard 1
yet hopeful lives, and TO the music 4
Of Its ripples, or showers, sang
Water, yes water shall Ice free. :,
But it is possible the .sLiberals,,
may have their eyes set upon some
OF our southern mountain streams.
for this promised full and eheaD
supply. Then again comes the
thought that these sources Of desired
and desirable fluid are all appropri-
ated; and surely to give US, even in
this growing city, free water, no
American gentlemann though he
"Liberal.v would con.
descend to steal. The Tetort sounds
"Oh, we should have TO
buy, or bring from more distant
points for use" Now, just here is
VIII" philanthrophy and wealth
might do their beneficent work. but
these bleating members Of the Glib
erai' party are as poor rs 'Job,s
turkey" and Il scarcely had A
leather.
After all, we come TO think IL
water is to be had. bought, brought.
piped anu placed in the door yards
n domiciles Of this city, the people
VII have to get it, they irNi hare To
)0y Tor a, and no "Liberal'' prom
Sc or sophistry can get around the
OF the common people,
IA the cry Of Free water' which
heir whilom friends can neither
'eg, borrow nor sleall''
Now the promise offree schools is |
little less pnoblematical, although ,
he people have hardly realized it
,et, for in most school districts OF ,
his Territory, provisions have been
made from the beginning for those
90 poor to help themselves. These
ould on proper application, send :
very child to school; but somebody {
al TO pay for them. The school :
ouses were mainly built and fur
ished by donation, but even then q
eachers were not going round !
without purse or scrip,o boarding /
tile. 1
II it is possible to inaugurate ]
zee schools, the sectarian churches q
this city might do 1t, for misrepre- /
sntation, as it has already done, 5
.ould bring in the ducats from :
laine to California, as the duped {
'ith crocodile tears' for Utah,s d
ignorance might be moved or bled. q
these pretensions OF the enemy n
1e sps cious, they are false; used as o
battle cry, they can only delude y
he Ignorant or the fanatical. They n
re promises made to be broken:
lobles, light as air, needing only
be touched by the point Of COM
on sense to vanish like the night I,
sion, and pass away for ever. n
40, gentlemen, Independence re- r,
,lts at charity, and the wilfuI falsi- n
'atlon o. intent and purpose in the II
y OF Free Water and Free n,
'hoois" IS no more transparent h.
the people, than It il TO the howl n
9 dervishes OF the eI.iberal', tr
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