Show HOW TO MAKE A BOOM A SHORT time ago four members of the city council were frantically urged to resign by the mouthpiece of the obstructionists who want to boom this city by traducing its people and by representing affairs here in a way to deter capital from investment and to scare off peace loving persons seeking a permanent home the daily din on this refrain amounted to nothing but sound the minority see any sense in deserting their posts because they could not in every instance rule the majority now the entire city council is requested to resign they will probably respond with the same alacrity displayed by the noncom non com pliant four the call comes this time because the council does not perform an impossibility they must commence work on sewers whether the surveys are perfected or not and lay pipes although the pipes have not arrived if not they are required to step down and out at once this demand deman to is made with the usual modesty of bf the chronic growl ers era and obstructionists who want immense improvements with somebody alses money and to regulate all things according to impracticable theories and falling failing that to send everything to everlasting sm smash h they do their utmost to impress upon capitalists at a distance that this is no place to dinv inv invest and yet pretend they want to raise the city by balloon process into a magnificent metropolis it is a singular method by which to attract settlers make out that the vast majority of residents are in rebellion against the laws and yet slaves to a few zealots zealous who control land water and conscience that they are Igno ignorant ant depraved and licentious that there are no schoolhouses roads streets drives walks or pavements pavement emen and no public improvements during the past ten years that the minority are deprived political and social rights and the whole local government is a despotism and then try to figure as boomers and the promoters of the growth and rapid increase of the city these are the methods of the wordy and impudent would be dictators of the municipal authorities this city to is destined to become all that was predicted for it by the master mind who planned it and the marks of whose genius are arefeen een by every appreciative eye all over this territory but it will not be built up by misrepresentation nor by groundless attacks on public officials because they decline to be ruled by scribes and ruined by speculators ula tors and the progress and welfare of this city and territory have bave been retarded more by the clique which affects to want a sudden eruption into magnificent proportions than by any other influences or conditions that have tended to prevent expansion the true friends of utah will seek to harn harmonize ionize not divide to bring about united effort not foment dissensions sen ven and set class against class to win people over to wise regulations and methods and not encourage eugo urage oppression severity intolerance and cruelty to urge official action and not malign public men to applaud improvements improvement not deny their existence to tell the truth and not falsify fact motive gotlie character and result but this is too much to expect of the few fo menters of strife whose entire capital is faultfinding fault finding and whose whole power Is the venom of shameless slander |