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Show Bury the Fourth! Salt Laki: City, June H, lH7ti. A'.(V.-r fl.ald: 1 see by thn import of the proceed-ingH proceed-ingH of the eity council, published in your isrfuo of Ihia morning, that the members lumi accepted an invitation to attend a celebration of the Fourth of July at Ogdeu. If 1 were a citizen of Ogdcn I would icviiu them to take their families and their property and locate, there, and, perhaps, they would accept that invitation also. Oonrte.-y and friendship are all wry well in their place; but are not generally gene-rally known in business. When a rural town like Ogden, peaks it piece em celebrating, a metropolis, like Salt Laka city, shuuld apeak louder, and place the fact "right tlwr " In my opinion the remissness of the city council in allowing Ogdeu to step right in front, and making the capital of I'tah play second fiddle at its dance, will not be forgotten before tho next Centennial arrives. A alur for one hundred years 1 ! The people of Utah's capital havo no celebration of tho national anniversary of indtv , pendenco, when every other city or town in the Union is spreading on its best for a record that will last lor the next Centennial. The record of Salt Lake ciiv will bo "no celebration! had .to put a one-horse wapm in Oj;deu procession!" Good for Oden; had for Salt Lake. We, tho people, had hoped for more from our now city conned, and 1, for one of the people, feel sorry they have so "put their foot in it." Let's change the name of our town. Wo aro Ogdeu No. 2. Sensitively, One of the People. In the language of the poet, wc would say to our correspondent, keep your linen on. The city council have not prevented you from cele brating the Centennial Fourth to your heart's content. Go in and celebrate, and get your friends to nssis. you in the laudable undertaking, undertak-ing, anel the council will not interfere with you; neither will you be dragged to Ogdeu against your will. There is no use in a person getting mad and talking foolishly because things don't happen to go to suit him which our correspondent has done. There i.- not the least occasion for the flings and insinuations against tho munici pal authorities. On the other hand the council are lo be comni' iid-.l. They havo acted wisely in the mat ter, and done that which will he sanctioned by a large majority of the citizens and taxpayers. Under the., circumstances they would rot have' been justified in spending for the ' purpose so much of the public funds as would be necessary to get up anything any-thing like an appropriate or respectable respect-able celfbration. Tho city coders cod-ers are by no means full. The waterworks have left little money in the corporation treasury for luxuries. Besides there is now, and has been for some lime past, a constant con-stant and heavy drain upon the municipal muni-cipal purse for necessary public expense. ex-pense. In the single matter of controlling con-trolling City creek and preventing wide destruction of property by that furious mountain stream, the city is paying between $000 and $700 a week. The plain truth is, the corporation corpor-ation cannot afford to appropriately celebrate the Fourth. Neither did the Ogden municipal government deem it profitable to invest in a celebration. cele-bration. The Junction city affair is not gotten up by the corporation, but by private citizsns. If any Salt Lake people want to get up a celebration here, the city government will certainly cer-tainly not object to it. The people of Salt Lake, as of other cities and towns in the territory, are invited to Ogden on the Fourth. They are not obliged to accept, but can, if they desire, arrange for a celebration at home, and invite the Ogdenilea to join them. If the Salt Lake common council accept an invitation to go to Ogden, it doesn't follow that there is disgrace in the courtesy, nor have they "put their foot in it," much. With due respect for our correspondent's corres-pondent's patriotism, we can but ( think that he has gone somewhat wild in his communication, and is complaining a good deal without reason. Tho absurdity and injustice of his language will doubtless be more apparent to him in print than in the manuscript. |