Show CAMPAIGN QUESTIONS I 1 have heard considerable on the above topics and read some and I 1 have been trying quite a time to get it through my not dot over ro receptive cranium so that I 1 might be able not only to understand the matter myself but explain it to others this free water business is somewhat of a mystery save it be in england or in the eastern states where jupiter pluvius dispenses it at times in quantities without money and without price but even there according to the best authorities and some experience much of the water supply is anything but free there are water taxes and bonds almost beyond calculation cu lation or what of the croton and schuylkill of the east and bala lake rivington Biving ton pike and father thames of england now new our liberal friends may have favor enough above to give us manchester weather where it ruins three hundred days in the year but on consideration I 1 doubt much whether they have influence save it be with the prince of the power of the air now having lived in utah for long over thirty years can I 1 discern any signs of free water from the first to date to be sure it was free in a sense once but iu in its freedom it hurried itself without ceremony eMODY ff toward the jordan and nirvana in the lake and it cost me with others many a weary day and many mady a dollar besides to wax coax it onto our barren lots where now the vine nourishes flourishes and the peach ripens to the sun what a pity my aching bones that the genii of free water had not then drifted into our hard yet hopeful lives and to the music of its ripples or showers sang water yes water shall be free but it to is possible the liberals may have their eyes set upon some of our southern mountain streams for this promised full and cheap supply then again comes the thought that these sources of desi t ed and desirable fluid are all appropriated and surely to give us even in this growing city free water no american gentleman though he be and liberal would condescend to steal the retort sounds strangely oh we should have to buy or bring from more distant points for use now just here is where and wealth might do their beneficent work but these bleating members of the liberal party are as poor as jobs turkey and it scarcely had a fe feather atherl after all we come to think if water is to be had bought brought piped and placed in the door yards or domiciles domiciled domi ciles of this city the people will have to get it they ww will have to pay for U and no liberal promise or sophistry can get around the sympathies of the common people on the cry of free water which their friends can neither beg 1 borrow nor steal now ow the promise of free schools is a little less problematical although the people have hardly realized it yet for in most school districts of this territory provisions have been made from the beginning for those too poor to help themselves these could on proper a application li cation send every child to school scho but somebody had to pay for them the schoolhouses were mainly built and furnished by deviation but even then teachers were not going round without purse or scrip 11 boarding out their remuneration much or little if it is possible to inaugurate free schools the sectarian churches of this city might do doit for misrepresentation sen tation as it has already done would bring in the ducats dubats from maine to california as the d duped with crocodile tears for ignorance might inight be moved or bled these pretensions of the enemy are sp cious they are false used as a battle cry they can only delude the ignorant or the fanatical they are promises made to be broken bubbles light as air needing only to be touched by the point of common sense to vanish like the night vision and pass away for ever no gentlemen independence revolts at charity and the wilful aalst falsification fi of intent abd aad purpose in the cry of free water and free schools is no more transparent to ro the people than it is to the howling dervishes of the liberal party EL W N |