Show NOT A PARTY JIATIEK One of the silly things of time day is the proposition to make tho water question figure in the next municipal election We hear members of either party talking wildly and saying that they will not vote for any candidate for a municipal office who is not pronounced and earnest in his determination to obtain water for the city and to see that the fluid is equitably divided di-vided We would like to ask these growlers when any man has been sent to the city council who was opposed to an abundant supply of water for the city Also is there a member of the present city government govern-ment who would stand in the way of trebling the water supply if such a thing were possible If there is one such man let us know his name that we may warn the voters against ever again placing him in a position of trust If there is u member of the council who would opppse an equitable I equit-able distribution of the present water supply please name him that ho may be branded as an enemy to right and jdstice j and tho human race The fact is a good many people are unreasonable = un-reasonable and unreasoning in this matter They thoughtlessly blame the council for the failure of nature to bo as lavish as is I desirable making the aldermen responsible responsi-ble for the absence of snows last winter and charging the watcrmaster with the burning up of their trees and gardens when the official has no more control over the elements than has the most insignificant insignifi-cant creature on earth Noreen the water be made a party question Liberals and the People being equally powerless to produce pro-duce rain in summer and snow in winter and neither having any influance over the rays of the sun It would be just as reasonable reason-able to bring the temperature into politics or make the rising and setting of the moon a party question THE HCUALD believes tho present council has done and is doing its utmost for the relief re-lief of tho community in this matter The body is made up of wise progressive gentlemen gen-tlemen every one of whom can be counted upon at all times to do his full share individually indi-vidually in every movement which has for its object the benefit of the city It is possible pos-sible the council has made some mistakes It would be a remarkable body if it never erred But if mistakes have been committed commit-ted they have been thoso of the judgment at the time and not willful ones and we defy anybody to point to an act which has lessened the supply of water Paying for water never delivered does not decrease t ie quantity already possessed The whole trouble lies in the fact that there have occurred three or four dry seasons sea-sons for which man is not chargeable and the remedy for which does not lie in his i power at this moment We believe that in time the municipality will be in a position to encounter withoutapprehensionordread a protracted period of drouth that is to I say by systems of storage and the utilization utiliza-tion of all the water hereabouts will be I reasonably independent however light the winter snows and rains of summer But thero is no sense in swearing about the I situation this season for it is beyond the power of the council and the citizens com jined to bring the relief demanded Nature alone can do it and she doesnt seem disposed dis-posed to exert herself |