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Show I HOW TO GET TOGETHER. The News thinks "if the citizens of Salt Lake cannot unite sufficiently to elect a city council next November which will seriously and wisely conduct the public business, instead of indulging in personal encounters and wasting time In tomfoolery tom-foolery and senseless strite, they will deserve the consequences, and will suffer from them, until un-til they get together and secure a respectable if not a -model administration." It might be hard to understand what the News means by "getting together" if we did not know it so well. It means for all Mormons to vote for all Mormons on both tickets, and to see that on the two tickets enough Mormons are named to 41 make the quorum of councilmen. If that can be J done, then the council will do what it is bidden to i . do, and that the News believes will secure "a re in spectable if not a model administration." ir any ji Gentile puts any other construction on the above extiact, he will surely be fooled, and if Gentiles It generally have not spirit and independence I enough to flock by themselves and in the city elec- I tions unite to support only Gentiles for council- men, then they well deserve just what they will j,et, which will be just what they now have, a m solid Mormon majority against a helpless Gentile minoiity. They can see that if primaries are 'HL culled in the old way, conventions held, nomlna- ,B tions made and a campaign carried on with the fB dd v.eal, when the election is over and a majority lB of Mormon councilmen are elected, the men elect- K ed will cease to belong to either political party; 1 S thp'r proteased allegiance to either party will not m count, they will simply be what they always have W been, the serfs of the Church, and it will be to f the head of the church and the church organ that ? they will look for instructions. The matter of al legiance to party will not concern them, any ex-I ex-I pressed or implied obligations to perform their duties like honest men and Americans will count for nothing at all. The only thing expected of 1 them will be that they "obey council." Ii Two years ago many Gentiles believed that men who are honorable and high-minded in business busi-ness matters would be honorable and high-minded I in office. So far as the Salt Lake City Council i is concerned, no man will have any foundation i for that belief nereafter. The only way to have peace will be to elect a strong majority of either Mormon or Gentiles, and if the majority is to be Mormon, then the engineer and other officers should be Mormon, or tho majority in the council will neutralize all their efforts to carry 4 oh the duties of their offices, even as Fernstrora lo'.ight Engineer Kelsey until valuable rights o the city v.eie x'-imit.et1 to lapse. That what ho did was approved by the church and mado clear when he, despite his record of worthlessness and criminal neglect of duty, was triumphantly re-elected. It will always be so so long as the church bends down to dabble in local politics, and Gentiles should see that fact clear enough by this time. Tho next council should be made up of thorough thor-ough and far-sighted business men. As events aie moving the momentum of a mighty progress is about to strike this city. Men capable of meeting meet-ing the questions which that progress will bring and to adjust the public business of that city to it, should be in control. The disgrace that rests like a canopy above the present council should be swept away. The present council is not wholly made up of narrow men, but the few competent ones are helpless where they are, because with the majority there is no question of what is right or what is best for the city, but lather, "what does the church want us to do?" It is clear enough that men so ensnared can but be inefficient inef-ficient managers of tho business of a large city, especially a city in the first expansion of what is to culminate in a swift transformation. "Water, sowers, pavements, parks, new tranchises, new school houses a thousand important questions and at least one of them so serious that only a business grasp equal to real statesmanship can cope with it. Think of all this being run by the church and with the church organ as chief wriggler, ready at any time to cover up incompetency, incom-petency, to justify any outrage or wrong, and to make clear that perfldy in a holy cause is a shining shin-ing virtue. Gentiles, in the coming city election should flock altogether by themselves. |