Show J TBE SPECIAL ELEPTION How the Canal Question Stands To morrow the special election will be held which is to decide whether this city shall have water or not The columns of the HERALD have been thrown open t everyone on this subject sub-ject and many citizens have expressed themselves freely on it Since the call for the special election was published pub-lished every communication on the subject has been given room and no one can complain of being slighted The discussion thus indulged in has shown wide difference opinion as to the best means for obtaining it but a universal acknowledgment that more water was needed While many plans have been suggested the preponderance of reason and argument argu-ment has supported the idea of the Council that the most feasible method of procuring an adequate supply is by means of a canal even tho = e that suggested other ideas have conceded that a canal would do if the water supply was insured but their own plans were naturally preferred 6 the question has narrowed down to a canal or no canal water or no water The route mentioned in the address of toe City Council has been attacked and critized very freely whether with justice will not be discussed here but one thing in this regard is worthy of special noticethe first person ol judgment is yet to be found who has doolured that ua adequate supply could not be brought from Utah Lake to this city This then narrows the question down to one of route and that of route is narrowed down to one of a section of the route No person is foolish enough to imagine that Mayor Little and the City Council who have EO much at stake personally I will expend one dollar on this canal from the point where the disputed and questioned section commences until atsured of the result ai well us science and sense can assure a result I he Council is not committed to any route and if it is found that tho old Church Canal will not answer any man of sense knows that another route will be chosen So far the reetilt of an affirmative I vote has been weighed but it is well enough to lock at the result of a negative nega-tive vote on this question I tbe necessary twottmttd vote for the lean be not cast then we are not going to have water The present pres-ent Council will continue for two years and one refusal in this respect will in all probability be enough it is then 0 question i ho succeeding Council will be willing to risk a vcta on this matter unless they put it in July or August at which time all your arguments to the contrary the present vote would go through with scarce any opposition During this two years other canals will probably be finished and the surplus water of the Jordan become the property of other Then we will want water and i we get it will have to pay treble And quadruple what i would now cost Even i we could get it then the benefit of two years time is irretrievably lostwe have I everything to risk in the delay and not the first thing to gain not a soft tary thing A computation would show this question of time to be one of no small importance As to tbe intimation that every foot of the route should be known and the exact cost set down it is simply absurd A reasonable idea of course could be given but even i these were stated and tbe vote put upon them it would be liable to tbe very objection urged concerning the Council address that is tbe Council wculi be committed com-mitted to a certain route and no mater how palpable i might be that a mistake had been made it could not be rectified Now however it can Again whether there is any truth in it or not and i is not at all improbable it is reported that i the city refuses the loan certain capitalists have determined to make an effort to get these waters and will hold them a few years when the city will be forced to buy the right it can now obtain for nothing and will have to pay a huge figure for i of course It is with this as with everything else any number of objections can be raised to any plan but to eugeett a better plan is the difficulty While many gcod ideas have been advanced in opposition to tbe measure a candid can-did analysis of the discussion will show a weighty preponderance of reason in favor of the canal proposed by the Council and a large majority of the people favor it In this respect and in this decision then at leatt the Council has displayed judgment Now i is a question as to whether personal preferences or ideas in a matter of this kind will be allowed to outweigh public good I is the policy of a broad liberal mind to use every legitimate means to accomplish that which is an aafcnowledged necessity by the means that appear beat to the mind failing however in the preferred pre-ferred means such a mind would never think of opposing the end because i be-cause some other means than those I personally desired had been employed that is cavilling it is egotism selfishness I I selfish-ness narrow mindednesp and all that is small and detestable I indicates that a mind capable of such a short sighted act imagines that all the wisdom wis-dom is concenttated in itself and that one entertaining opposing ideas is unquestionably wrong This matter is one of grave public policy I is evident that water is wanted that a cacal is generally viewed as being the beet plan and that the tha City Council will bring an adequate water supply if the loan is granted All must concede that a canal is the most generally favored method and I the true man of liberal views will not vote against mln the general public good simply because the means employed em-ployed does cot suit him hut he will argue to himself I need water and since I cannot get it my way I am not going to be fool enough to try and prevent its coming altogether because some other plan has been adopted I like my way best but I want water and will vote for the other method to get it We trust the citizens of Salt Like are composed com-posed of this class of people |