The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-04

coming later; but / want to say to you Il
night that if l thought was placed theI
solely for my name would resign rigt
now, and I will say further, not wishing
appear ungrateful for the support of IN
party in the past, but if any of you wan
my position you are welcome to 1t with a
its houors and emoiuments, and so far as
am concerned, l don't care how soon 20
take hold, ''be your name Noakes, o
Stokes, or Stiles or Brown, or Thompson,
But let US investigate this charge and see
WHAT THERE Is IN IT.
We are on the eve of an election 70
counselors and representatives to the leg
islative assembly, commissioners to locat
university lands and four county officers
Surely if the charge of these Liberals b.
true, among the candidates to be voted TO
there Will be long list of the sons of ia
vorcd families. suppose they mean BY
this the sons of prominent men in the dom
inant church of Utah. Let us look at theil
names: Barton, a good, old English name
but no especial church favorite that l an
aware of. Olsen: can any one discover any
patrician ring to that name! Cluff, M0yle
Collett, Booth, Hatch, Bryan, Seegmiller
Hammond, Howell, Lowe, Boyle, Ferrin
Porter, Eldredge, Heron, Clark, Sharp
Woolley. Benton, Russell, Greer, Thur
man, Wood, Johnson, Melville, Lund
REID, Robinson. There's plain John
Robinson himself.) Sargent, Stewart
Howe, Miller, Hardy, Ballantyne, Wad-
| dell, Mitchell Are any of these the names
of any high officials of the Mormon church!
| Now | have enumerated all but three. Dc
any of them have smack to them of
NEPoTIsM OR FAvoRITIsM,
or anything else except plain, homespun
merit? / am not personally acquainted
with all of them, but know a great many,
and can testify that they are men and the
sons of men who have worked
their way to the front through ability,
integrity and devotion to their party and
through no other cause. Now there are
just three out of the forty-two who have
names the same as prominent churchmen.
One of these is LIE Grande Young. Will
anyone have the effrontery to say that Mr..
Young is nominated to the Legislature
because President Brigham Young was his
unclel If so, he ought to make the asser-
ton and then be hustled off Immediately to
the asylum at Provo. The other two are
Franklin S. Richards, who goes to the
council from this district and Charles G.
Richards, of Ogden. Both of these gentle
men are sons of one father and he an
apostle and ! guess they are proud of it
they ought to be; but if any more capable
men for the positions can be found in their
respective districts or in the party then l
have overlooked them, that's all, and l
don't say this because one of them is
present either. In view of all this, what
becomes of the accusation of the Liberal
speakerss There is absolutely nothing in
groundless-myt hical nonsensical like
the rest of their assertions.
The Liberal party have seen fit to drag
THE WATER QUESTION
Into politics. 1t has no more business with
our politics than the Liberals have. But
since it is dragged there by the other party
a word may be said perhaps on that subject.
They are very loud in their promises to
bring everybody water who will vote the
Liberal ticket, no matter where they live,
or lowland, on the burning bench
or in the alkali plain, they are to be flooded,
swamped, deluged with water if only they
will vote the Liberal ticket. Did it ever
occur to you that it is very easy to make
promises! 1t has to me; It is one
of the easiest things I have to
do. As Shakespeare says, sit is
as easy as lying" and the Liberal
party is tolerably adept at both these ac
complishments. Now, what evidences
have we that they will, if elected, fulfill
these promises. They have had control of
Ogden city, for instance, since last Febru-
airy? Have any of you heard of Ogden
being inundated? The natural advantages
OllSIC lOI d NdJCI supply dEt DtGJtE ludu
they are in Salt Lake city, yet we hear
that even Ogden has water wall There
are four Liberals, four of the best men OF
their party, in the city council of this city.
They have been there going on two years.
Surely, if that party possesses
THE ROD OF MOSES
waters to gush forth, there has been |
abundant opportunity for these city coun-
cilmen to do the shifting. Yet, we all ap
pear to feel perfectly safe from any i'm |
pending flood as result of their presence |
there. The fact of the matter is, the Lib |
eral claim of superior Water getting abil- |
ity is all stuff. The Peoples party is just |
as intelligent, just as energetic, just as |
able to get a water supply as the Liberals |
are. The present city council is donegal, |
in its power to increase the supply and the |
Liberals know it, and if every city council |
man aud every watermaster in the city |
were saturated with Liberalism, the town |
would be just as dry as it is to-day. But |
the question is asked, why has not |
The Peoples party guarded against this
unusual drouth, thay having been in
power so long. Well, one very good reason
las been because the city has never been
able until recently to get the borrowing
power to raise sufficient funds and the rea-
son they couldn't get it was because Liberal
governors have persistently vetoed the
measures. But let US
DELvE INTO HISTORY
. little to see if something has not been
lone by the city council, Notwithstanding
IL the claims to the contrary.
In 1879 we had just such dry season as
his one. Our supply was mainly from City
reek; the waterwOrks had but recently
leen introduced and threatened to consume
he greater part of the supply from that
ource. The trees looked yellow vegita-
ion in some parts of town died for
want of water. This was the first
ear that there was any serious lack
# water. The city council saw the neces-
ity of an additional supply for irrigation
purposes. They promptly met the issue.
hey Immediately projected the Jordan and
salt Lake City canal. They thought, and
lad the right to think, if a supply could be
onveyed from Utah Lal1e-a great natural
the distress would be re-
ieved and permanent supply be thus OBJ
aimed. 1t was q colossal undertaking to {
'uild a canal twenty miles long. The city
vas poor The council applied TO the legis |
lture for power to issue bonds in the sum
f $3.50, 000 to complete the work. Strangely
nough the measure was not vetoed, and
he power was conferred contingent only
pom the votes of the people. The people
oted in favor of it. The canal was dug at
omething like thirteen thousand dollars ,
,ss than its estimated cost, and the in {
abitants had, if not an abundance, at least
good supply for five years. I
THE THRIFTY CONDITION OF TREES
,hich adorn our city and entitle her to the
anne of the Garden City of America ,
ear witness that up to this time they have :
OF suffered for water. But with the lapse
f time the summers sun began to get in !
is blighting work again, and in 1887 there :
-as something of a scarcity. Seeing this, {
i'd the city council then sit down and re- +
use to do ANYTHING to relieve the situation. }