The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-05
TILTINa AT WINDMILLS.

The silly Don Quixotos Of this town
who nro running tlts against the wind
mills with respect to the city expandi-
lures and the public improvements 60
ing on, find themselves In about the
Same plight as did their prototype, tho
sorrowful knight Of La Mancha. They
start out full Of sound and fury, but
como home puncturod windbags. The
demonstrations Of thoir campaign show
that they arc absolutely ignorant OF
the real financial situhtion aud Of the
public work that Is in progress and how
1t ought to be dono, and so far as they
nre not ignorant they are utterly men
dacious and unscrupulous. Even tho
evening organ OF the Morrisites has
flung up its ass's heel on this PROPOSE
tiou, showing its utter lack Of princi-
plo and its indecent haste to attempt
to make others responsible for tho dcre-
lictions of its favorite administration.
an administration which WAS controlled
entirely from church headquarters and
which considered no interest of the peo-
pie, but was devoted altogether to the
interest Of ecclesiastical grab, church
oommorcialism, and the advancement OF
a corporation here whose odious monop-
oily grinds the people Of this city and
will be fastened about their necks for
the next fifty years. this because the
hierarch Of the church demanded it,
and he received it as a concession to
his autocracy, not only In defiance Of
the rights and wishes Of tho people, but
in absolute disregard Of the pledges
madc to the Taxpayers here in the
campaign for tho Issue Of the million
dollar bonds which wns voted in Janu-
ary, 1905.
The fact that all the trials of the
city, financial and otherwise, are dis
tinctly chargeable to the Morris admin
istration, is such IN evident fact that
there is no escape from it. 1t grinds
the Morrisite journals, both morning
and evening, to be obliged to face this
record. 1t is record that completely
overthrows them, and lays them up for
repairs every timo they run into 1t, At
the present time, Mother tho American
party nor the public is in the least
troubled by the vagaries Of tho loony
filters. Each enjoys tho spectacle i'm
mensely, and grows fat over the dis
comfture that every time overwhelms
those who are fighting they know not
what. A veritable giant confronts them
in their diseased imagination, only to
find when the course Is run that the
giant is piece of mechanism that
never fails to be their ruin.
Let them keep on; lot them run their
courses. The people enjoy the sport,
and do not concern themselves in the
least with the crazy notions OF those
who mako battles in tho fields Of the
surviving remains of an order that has
passed away in this place, This city
was never in as good order as now;
never was there so much public work
going on; never was there so little rea-
son to complain in an industrial, COM
mercial, OF business way. Never was
there time when labor was employed
so universally and at such good wages;
and after all that is the real secret Of
tho suffering which tho modern knights
Of La Mancha are enduring. But the
people are not in the least concerned
about those imaginary giants They
like things just as they are, and In a
few months now they will vote to ex-
tend the satisfactory conditions to tho
whole county Of Salt Lake.