Show THE CANAL Not a few of those who have sud 5 denly and strangely manifested opposition oppo-sition to the proposed Jordan and Salt Lake City Canal treat the subject as if it were scheme that had been concocted con-cocted by and was being engineered for the excusive benefit of the Oily Council These people are of that class who find fault with the actions I of official not because the official iI i I acts art wrong or in any respect improper I im-proper but simply for the reason that they are the work of the public functionaries and therefore targets t for the grumblers Aa a matter of r fact the members of the City Council are personally interested in the completion com-pletion of the canal less than the j majority of the community We believe J be-lieve no alderman or councilor resides j re-sides beyond the present water limits i of the city They all have acknowledged i acknowl-edged water rights equal to the most I j favored in this respect An additional 1i f addi-tional wafer supply cannot benefit them nor enhance the value of their property only as it benefits every r I resident and adds value to all property I prop-erty by enlarging I the productiveness oi me eon increasing cue population I by making it possible > for more people to live within the corporate limits enlarging the business of the city and adding to its manufacturing and industrial t dustrial institutions It is also a fact that the City Council is not responsible for this canal project Public opinion the highest of all humanS human-S laws compelled the late Council to act and the new Council was elected with the direct understanding that it L i was to go ahead with the canal Ins In-s H J some of the primaries where delegates tJ1 t to the nominating convention were chosen the canal project was discussed 4 j i discus-sed and the men selected were taken 1 because of their known or declared sympathy with the scheme The Council was also urged to obtain from I tbe Legislature the necessary power i i to obtain the money for the canal h j i We cannot forget how indignant the i J people were when the Assembly I l threatened to withhold the required j legislation Nobody thought of questioning j ques-tioning the propriety of constructing the canal everybody being anxious i only that the authority and power tot to-t do the work be granted i What the matter with the opponents 4s i i oppo-nents to the canal is that they areS are-S j afflicted with a disease quite common if t in the human family viz want of i foresight Their memories are also J impaired In March they cannot remember what occurred in the previous pre-vious August and they cannot look ahead four months Had the iota I i on the borrowiBg proposition bpeu i k taken last summer it would have carried by a nine tenths majority Bo confident were those managing the bill before tho Legislature for enlarging enlarg-ing the borrowing powers of the corporation cor-poration that the people would sanction sanc-tion and approve it that it was at first suggested that the majority for the adoption of the loan be placed at threefourths instead of twctbirda No one dreamed that there would be anything lke a formidable opposition to the enterprise because it was conaideted that the property owners were reasont bly wise in their own interest This sudden ecare that some are afflicted by is not at all creditable to the intel ligence and wisdom of the people It is a fright without cause and one that must result injuriously to those affected af-fected by it provided the scare shall prove serious enough to defeat the loanThe The HERALD still believes the bonds will be voted because we have large faith in the intelligence of the people It f this eminently proper measure shall fail the confidence of n good many people in the wisdom of the musses will be shaken Propertyowners should not lose eight of the fact that July and August come every year and that tho dry and dudty months of 1879 are liable to ha duplicated any summer with all their disastrous consequences con-sequences We may have an abundance abun-dance of water tho coming summer but if so it will be an exception to the usual order that nature has adopted And there will be years after the present pres-ent We need not expect that all winters will be like the one just closing clos-ing It has been unlike its predece eors of the past decade in the quantity of snow that it has piled in the mountains moun-tains and we may never experience its like again Let everybody as he recalls the paat t learn wisdom from what he has seen and thus provide for the future Do not be governed by the chronic grumblers nor let your votes be turned against your own profit and advancement by tho coun eels of the shortsighted who are unnecessarily un-necessarily exercised over a probable increase of taxation or who find fault with everything that is done simply because they did not do it |