Show sanitation to frighten the four non mormon members of the city council into the resignation of their offices the organ of the ob is particularly savage against the NEWS for its exposure of the weakness and imper tince of this radical element which has done so much to retard progress in this city and territory As usual its anger is manifest in misrepresentation an ever present symptom of chronic mendacity the DESERET NEWS in recently pointing out the necessity for a fuller water supply for this city as of primary importance did not pretend to utter anything new as the back files of this paper will testify we have urged attention on this matter for man years and have supported every practical and feasible measure that has been presented with that object in view and we did not oppose sewerage while we advocated a greater water supply we objected to an ill advised measure which the city was urged to adopt without due reflection time has proven that our position was sound and that which the organ aforesaid treated with ridicule a few months ago it now supports and wants credit for applauding the NEWS showed then the terrible distress in certain parts of the city for lack of water the organ pooh mooed the grievance and made light ot of it but now echoes the very words of the NEWS and claims them as its ite own As to our opposing measures for the removal of filth the record shows shown that the NEWS has advocated measures for the cleansing of the entire city for many years and pointed out practical taxpayers are entitled to the benefits of any public measure dependent upon general taxation the movement of the city council to secure additional water supplies meets with our hearty approval and we would rather exclaim better late than never than growl because our suggestions in this line made years and years ago have not been followed with the celerity we plans by which it could be effectually accomplished if those suggestions had been carried out all parts of this city would have today to day the benefits of a sanitary system that would have cost but little but would have carried universal benefit and the business part of town would have been relieved of those deposits of filth which are now complained of as though they were favored by the NEWS sewerage for main and adjacent streets and a dry earth system of defecation for all other parts of the city with competent inspection enforced regulations and the deodorization and change into fertilizing material of the waste matter have formed the essential features of the measures proposed and advocated in these columns for many years and it to is useless for our untruthful opponents to try to deceive our friends or any considerable portion of the public with gross falsehoods and misstatements of our position and our attitude on sanitary questions we desire the development and progress of this city and territory and will support any rational and proper measure likely to secure general prosperity but we do not intend to favor any wildcat scheme or personal project for the enrichment of a few at the expense of the many nor close our eyes to the fact that all the desired the obstructionists will have to reform or get out of the way and the unrepentant and perpetual malig ners will reap only scorn and contempt for their sowings bowings of falsehood |