Show THE TH REAL QUESTION I IH I pite of II to ob i iE r E rUd ru t it lie he mudo by M Mayor or and City AttOrney Dey with the thc I J 3 ht aJl ai l Pow Power r was hit I Ia a av In hi by Q lust night nigh t and goes gOOS to the tho mayor fot ot his Unless the Ule effort to bluel bloeR tl the e by legal logal if i In further postponing the tho ec or of the ordinance the city ut ILl come corne Into immediate possession OL tilE the Big Cottonwood water rights power POWE r rights and land required Zor tor the KIty s new water supply and construe tion on the reservoir and conduit will as soon as bids can be t d for anti and contracts let lethe The he terms or of the agreement embodied in n the ordinance have been boen discussed fully ully and are familiar The city se 1 ies l S Immediately its water and power dear ot or Incumbrance with the agreement that the water can it tc US usel for a municipal power plant Jt fl desired the charges ot of electrIc light inS ing are reduced and street car fares CiTO nl down to four cents each for tIck els Is in books of fifty In return the franchises are extended to July 1 1955 1900 It agrees to furnish the tp lights for In Its Iran fran and it undertakes to give the H At power for municipal purposes at one OIW rent per kilowatt hour on a twenty In oth othar r words the c i ty gains every eory point for which It has fought and the company y gets a ten tenar ar e extension 1 of Its old franchises The last effort to dela delay the took the form of oC a snap application for au an injunCtion to pt tAt three members of the council from fruin voting on the question because a Mormon church officials they were in the franchise Tile The was made late in the afternoon ci In the belief bolier that it would miel delay for at least east two weeks week longer The eft city attorney upset the by se the dissolution of the injunction tion at a night hearing the court sue sus susto to his view that no facts were that would justify a continuance cf f ti order it Is 5 supposed the pOlicy of obstruct t t i 1 iii HI be continued KS as far as po possible ible al fer very effort made to prevent the thea a al work worl of front being J I t urIer way Whether It ean be beS S Ii remains for the coits to I 1 It if the matter is again brou brought ht them t long as the light and railway com coni pary was obdurate and nd unreasonable l 1 Its demands the people of Salt Lake V ore to to bide the issue patiently h t the hr hope or of securing better terms I lilA hI patience shown justified Itself br ause the thu company compan agreed to R a i settlement conceded lower lowers i s reet car fares lower COt cost for I servIce and the right i 1 use the water for power pur I 1 Ian points of Importance con worth orth waIting for tor It accepted I e J ext Instead of the 1 t tear ear extension It wanted Jt It ac 1 Us its old with prolonged Iff Instead instead of the favorablY modified it wIshed as a substitute In InE E Fry vital point the city won Its case and got oven even more than it ho ed for fortA tp tA to 0 that point the people were v to defer derer their hope ot of a greater t a system providing for fer fora fera a population or of 0 relieving the always felt In the summer summeral summeral al never more titan than this summer But Bu Butr f r tb Ith these concessions won and the theater ater assured at once the Ule willii Will ii little forbearance for a policy polie of th that eek not the public Io but the furtherance of personal cds ds and the defeat or of Important PUb lj that those personal may be s served these e facts as a at ai t ll i I 55 proposition without any foel fel of prejudice on either side The ThO fl raid falls fails to see any e In Int inI t I c policy of obstruction On the con contrary it believes that ob obstruction now the company has baa liven given In and andare a are 1 to accept the cIty terms tenus Js Is IsI I expensive for the city elty and Injurious to ever every citizen clUzen f 00 0 It has b been charged that the Demo Domo administration has made macic a deal nith ith the Mormon church for the pas of the franchise In return for the church Is Ie to aid in the tho tion of the Democratic city ticket this fall fail the hot wave has struck IH and the tho foolish season Is In full b bist The me Herald Is credited with b l lag a party purly to this deal with hay hav int on the water question and ard with various other political crImes The TI comes from obstruction I ts who rather wre k the city tian see It modernized and made at attractive as a residence place who are HUng to have the people sutter for Jark Jar k or of a water supply rather than see their political opponents accomplish anything ot Of public benefit It Is ot of course maliciously false and Its source is sufficient evidence Of Its untruth The Herald fought against a i fifty yar extension or of the It for 10 low e lower lowe lighting 1 Wd ot tor Ill ri I its fight it had the support ot of the mayor maJor the city ey and pt one Samuel Newhouse The fight has been won on Lt every pOint and havIng secured what it fought for The Her Herald ld Is not willing willingto to abandon the fruits of vIctory and andeo see eo the Ule future of the city wrecked by bya a band of who vho have no no regard for tor the welfare nor llor for the tho prosperity of its business businessmen mon men and householders It If it Is a crime to advocate and win cheaper street car fares for the pee lle The ThO Herald pleads ds guilty l If It ItIs ItIs Is wIcked to work worle hard for and get lower lighting rat rates s The Tho Herald Is at al together nicked It If It is a sin t to want wanta a water system for a greater Salt Lr to then thon The Herald Is the chief chiet among sinners and beyond rec reclamation reclamation Ca Apparently the obstructionists think to scare the friends ot o the Big Cotton Cottonwood CottonWood wood undertaking by springing the Mormon question That may scare the and make capital for the feebleminded but the Mormon spook as a steady diet grows tiresome to toone toone one who cares more for the or of Salt Lake than for tor any ones poll poli political ambitIons or personal feuds who ho cares no whit whether the hurch c or the Catholic church or the tho M church offers n a valuable con con c to the city cily as hong as the eft city gets g ets It With a good many folks foUtS The Herald w the tho Mormon church as a body were w ere out of business and OU or of politics i it i t believes the day clay will come when the t he Mormon poole themselves Wilt will realize r the wisdom ot of abandoning those thos i fields fi elds and It has said so often enough and a nd forcibly enough to be understood I Iy b y an all honest men That however has hns n ore t do W ith the tho Immediate situation a a g appetite Ute has to do dD fth t tb 1 t to malo iato n crop in Utah Th q s the only o ho honest est questions for the people are a re those What sort or of an agreement has h as the cit city administration n made with the power company is It fair does the city ity c get a reasonable return for the extension e of franchises Is there any better etter b way of getting Big BiS ater w Into the city can Salt Lake at aC aCford ford ord f to delay day the tho consummation ofa of a good g bargain And to those questions there is only one o ne businesslike sane reply The company c a and nd the city have hae reached an a ir agreement on terms favorable to I the he t city eIty gIving every concession that could c be wished in reason and the ratification r of the agreement was good public p policy polley as well as good business sense ense s |