The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-05
SALT LAKES ADuLLAmITEs.

The ratification of the agreement be-
tween the mayor and city attorney on
one side and the Light and Power COM
psny on the other insures 60 this city
the greatest public Improvement ever
projected, the Big Cottonwood water
undertaking. With its success settled,
she city may look forward conpIacentIy
TO the future, confident of a water
system unequalled for adequacy and
purity anywhere in this country: it can
welcome newcomers with the promise
that no city I'm America will have
finer or larger per capita volume OF
water for any purpose, and it can say
with entire safety that no municipality
ever achieved such a result. with as
small an expense. This has been
achieved, too. on terms that not only
save the city an enormous outlay and
expense to the taxpayers. but it has
secured for the individual citizen u
heavy saving in the cost of lighting SER
Vice and street car fare.
w. in spite of these plain facts
the obstructionists who have been de-
feated i'm their effort to block any pub
lie Improvement, would have the peo-
pie believe that the result of the agree
ment is dishonorable to the city and
disaster TO the people at large. If
this is so, it is a misfortune to have
four-cent car fares, it is calamity to
get cheaper electric lights and il is
a disaster unparalleled to get an un-
limited water suDply-all for an eight
year extension OF franchises which had
Yet forty-two years to run.
The kickers in the cave of Adullam
had some excuse for their walls. They
included every one that was in dis
tress. and every one that WAS in debt
and every one that was disconnected"
aud they must have been a delightful
crew 10 do business with. Their mod
eTn successors are shrieking calamity
only because the city is to get enor-
nous benefits at little oost-without any
help from the Adullamites of Salt Lake,
who could be cheerful only IL they
saw a prospect OF business disaster for
the Individual resident and ruin for the
city as a whole.
Like their predecessors. these modern
calamity prophets are willing to believe
evil OF any oIfe who differs with them
ia opinion. They accuse Hartenstein.
we GpNHtflafdii. OF betrayal OF the finlb-
JIG interest because he voted for the
city's welfare: they accuse the mayor
and city attorney OF putting up a poIit-
icai job when they carry out plans that
are approved by a large majority of the
people. and on terms so plainly advan-
tageous that none but a chUmD or a
lunatIc would hesitate 20 accept them:
they link The Herald with the political
job because it has urged the acceptance
OF the agreement.
This paper has no apologies to offer
for what II believes is a public service.
The mayor and city attorney and Coun-
Gilman Hartenstein need no apologists
TO defend their action. The very men
o. who howl loudest now would be ready
10 make even more fuss if the city ad-
ADMINISTRATION failed to secure the Big
Cottonwood water IN time for city use
next year; and even the honest doubt
ers. men who have no axes 20 grind
or srudges to crafty. will concede with
in a year that the agreement which
secures Big Cottonwood for salt Lake
city is the most commendable service
rendered by any administration of the
city in its history.