Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-20
MUCH PUBLIC SPIRIT.

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TO Washington. it is asserted tn
a part Of the scheme is TO indu,
Congress to wipe out the Iniustri
Home and use the building as
portion Of the intended goverpmer
structure. BY this means the pr,
posed appropriation could be mater
ally reduced.
This proposal causes great comma
ton in the breasts of certain coteri
among the active politicians of thi
city. They are determined to fgh
the proposal Of the selfish syndicat'
TO the bitter end. This opposition
is alleged TO be inaugurated on sew
eral grounds, which it may be inter
esting to make a note of.
a basis for contention against the
scheme Of the syndicate is that 'It
was known in advance that it would
be fought with all the power that
slumbers in the Mormon Church;
it" 1.-THE Industrial Home) "was
bailt as railroad is sometimes
built into the wilderness, not for
what it would do at once, but for
the business which its presence
would eventually build w." No
effort Of the Church was ever put
forth to defeat the establishment Of
the institution in question, even if
the sentiments of this journal be
taken on the subject as that Of the
Church. The NEWS never offered
an objection to the Inauguration of
the Home, but did most decidedly
Object to the depraved and con-
scieDceless course taken in the effort
TO obtain the Congressional appro-
priation. Slanderous falsehOods
were used 10 deceive Congress
into making it, and numbers
OF those fabrications were refuted
by officers under the United States
Government and were published In
tue Congressional Record as well
as in local papers Of this Terri
tory. Neither IVES the arpropria-
ton asked for Oh the ground Of
future benefits or usefulness, the
record showing the claim ofurgency
In every phase. 1t was represented
that large numbers Of people of the
class it was intended to benefit-the
plural wives and their minor chill
dren Of polygamists rendered desti-
tute by the operations Of the anti
polygamy laws-existed and were
ready to rush into such an asylum. |
The evidence Of this gigantic false
hood existed in the fact that, if we |
recollect Alright, the highest number |
of inmates Of the institution at one |
time since its establishment has been
nine, more or less.
The opponents Of the syndicate
are distressed at the bare thought of
the Home being, by the new pro-
posal, placed in the light Of e fail
ure. This would result in damaged
regulations" We admit that it goes
long way towards proving the in
stigators and promoters of the ms IT,
tutisn to- be the leading prevarica-
tors Of the nineteenth century, a
position the NEWS placed them in
at the time the appropriation was
asked for and when the disgusting
squa6ble subsequently, ensued over
the question of who should manipu-
late the fund.
The oppOsers Of the latest scheme
are also worked up for the welfare
of the ''many thousands Of people
yet TO be accommodated. - Their !,
philanthropic souls are agitated into
condition Of fermentation in rela-
ion to future beneficiares, when the
line shall be indefinitely and enor-
nously multiplied.
Such far-sighted benevolence is
eldom met with, being sufficiently d.
Ieep to be tinged with pathos. It is
'eThaps just little marred with the :
expressed fear Of ''damaged reputa-
ions, /" and that engendered by the /,
Of a public building being
coated at a point distant from a
ltuation more "devoutly TO be =
u
notwithstanding all this, we also :
ne opposed to the proposition of the !, :,
indicate on good many grounds. :
he Home should not oe interfered 5
18th, and its absorption 10y the pro- =
osed government structure weuld
E a mistake. The appeal to u
lie stingy side of the gov a
The plea Of reducing Vi
lie appropriation-is small business. ~
70 cannot have too many govern Ok
ent edifices, and instead of being 70
posed TO them we would like 10 W.
c them rs thick in this city as
stage stamps on letter from the 81
lent. So far as relates to us, we ey
'uld not object if the town wess pr
Istered all over with public struc- ioE
7es. Anybody who imagines he n
n get ahead Of us in desiring To III
them planted here will have to ass
up early in the morning to for .,u
late estimates of the number and .h'
lgnitude Of the edihces of that inj
aracter he would like to see les
.cted. Pa
like the opponents of the scheme oF'
he syndicate, we not only object to
reduction Of the possible number -i'
'ublic buildings, but are somewhat COZ
'hcular as TO their location. Con- nay
nently the News must Oppose the DOo
lblishment in the suburbs of the Out
shortly TO be built. 1t would s"'
like a scheme to increase the cha
iness Of street car comuanies Oh
ny stables and shOe-makipg es. ON
Iishments to have the site so far sue
n the business centre of the city Iah
he syndicate desires. We pro the
; to stand by this position, but pa
not care to mix it with simu- acts
d philanthropy pointed toward tak'
re generations, nor with ssdam- theF
l reputations," especially when that
ONE cases the latter operation is Scot
actical impossibility. swo
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is
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