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Show jij Wo nro reminded ovcry morning bo- lit fore breakfast, by tho Knocker, that If 1 1 wo vote for and elect Ezra Thompson If and his gang, wo will turn loose upon IL-j ourselves an avalanche of outside cap- I'jl ltal that will fairly smother us in mi prosperity. Now, lot us seo: It this Mm Is so, then here's "Hurrah for Bz and If tho whole push!" But it doesn't look Hi quite right. During the last s'x or H soven months Salt Lake notwlthstnnd- HI lng tho Tribune's knocking, has had Hi more visiters from outside the stato Hj than during any period in Its history; Hj among theso visitors have been lend- Hj lng newspapermen, merchants, manu- Hil facturers, capitalists, etc., from Chica- HI go, Omaha, Denver, Los Angeles, HI San Francisco and other western clt- Hj los; very many of them men of keon ma business ncumen, men who are well up HI In tho art of building cities nnd who Hj can pick out tho woak as well as tho HI strong points of a prospective motrop- Hi oils ns fast as a shorthand reporter Hi can jot them down. Our widc-awako HJ hotel men, such as Holmes, Wcy, Por- ter and Ewlng, have been alive ti the HJ occasion and have kept human graph- HI ophones stationed at convenient points HJ to catch and record comments and Hf- questiona emannting from this source. Hj Out of pno hundred random roproduc- HJ tlons from tho general collection wo HJ find fifty-seven bearing upon tho water HJ question, such as "How is your water HJ; supply?" "Whero do you got your HJ water supply?" "How can you in- HJ crease your water supply?" "Why HJ don't you got moro water?" "You can HJ never build much of a city hero unless HJ you get moro water," etc., etc. Twen- HJ ty-soven referred to tho woathor and HJ climate; seventeen to the prices of HT real estate and homes and tho balance, HJ 1, to tho politics of tho town. What, HJ then, nro tho peoplo interested in? HJ Certainly not politics. The wise men HJ of Gotham, as well as Chicago, St HJ Louis, Kansas City, Omaln, Denver, HJ Los Angeles, seo to it that tholr water HJ supply is kept at least ton years ahead HJ of their population, not two yoar3 be- HJ hand. William J. Lynch says: "The HJ securing of an adequate water supply, HJ and that, too, before next summer, Is HJ a work of vast Importance. It would HJ be a calamity for Salt Lake City to be HJ compelled to piss through another HJ water famine like that we have just HJ, experienced. We must have more HJ' water than we have had, and our sup- HJ ply must be taken better care of than HJi before." And Lynch is backed by n HJ; political party that can and will do HJ- what It says. Thompson says: HJ ; "A-hem, water Is Irrelevant, lmma- I, terlal and incompetent," and ho is backed by an organ and a party that says "O-hell!" to anything and everything. every-thing. In tho faco of all tho ovldenco, It i Is plain tint if wo aro to glvo a satis- ' factory answer to such questions an other season, wo must elect W. .1. Lynch mnyor and put a muzzlo on tho kickers, n |