Morris tribune., 1892-01-13
can article in last weeks Tribune

San article in last weeks TRIBUNE
called our attention to it. The article
we refer to was one of the amend,
ments passed at the last meeting oil
the council. Official Organ OF the
City.
Well, now, that is funny! The edi-
tor of the "official organ" had his at
tention called to an act of the city
council by the TRIBUNE, when the very
"article' referred to US appearing i'll
the TLBUNE appeared in the "oificial
organ" the next day after it appeared
in the TRIBUNE! But this accounts
for it: The article in the aforesaid
"ofiicial organ" was not written by the
editor, to our certain knowledge, ex-
cept the first few lines; and further,
we know just who did write it. This
is still more funny. Don't it?
The writer in the heretofore men
toned "official organ" talks about the
amendment to Amendment No. g.
and amendment to amendment No.
g." when if he had called on the vii
lage recorder he would have learned
that there were no amendments to
amendments passed at the last meet
ing of the council, but they were orig
inal amendments.
When the publisher of newspa-
per allows everyone who may desire
to do SO write Editorials" for his pa
per on all sides of q subject his pa
per is quite certain to become every
thing by turns and nothing long, and
the position of his paper becomes de-
cidedly mixed, like the previously re-
ferred to official organ" Starting out
as an advocate of water works and de-
handing that we have pure water at
any cost, the before mentioned official
organ" has now become SO violently
to the system that it does not
hesitate to denounce the three council
men who voted for the water works |
franchise as men who are in favor of |
grinding down the taxpayers, ruin
ing the credit of the village, driving
business men out of town, as some of
them are now contemplating, and
keeping out of town men who would
come in to benefit and improve the
place."
By the way, if some of the editors
Of the previously alluded to "oficial
organ" would furnish that paper for
publication that other water works
ordinance, intended to be PASSED by
} future council, elected for that pur-
pose, with different set of grantees
rom the present ones-we say, if the
above designated "oficial organ" will
publish that shrewdly drawn ordi-
lance and the names of the proposed
grantees, it would be interesting read
ng matter.
When the water works ordinance
vas first presented to the council we
cad it carefully, and failing to see
wrong in it, we advocated
is passage, and did so honestly. We
lave also read the ordinance since it's
amendment and passage, and believe
t gives the city all the rights that
'ould be justly asked for.
We were in favor of pure water for
he city. We believed the present
council capable of handling the mat
or and adopting proper water works
ordinance, land we further believed that
he gentlemen asking for the franchise
worthy of it, and we still believe So.
We claim to have quite as much in
crest in the success of our little city
IS many others who have opposed the
water works improvement. We are
lere to stay, and we shall never be
ound, knowingly, to advocate any
hing that will prove detrimental to
he best interests of the town we have ,
elected for our home. This is all we
hall have to say in defence of our
course in the matter of supplying the
;ity with pure water.