Show t la I an astonishing thing to ceo any onp backing such men in a proposition tOjflpend large sums of money as now L talk for the ten Councilmen who voted I toj appropriate money that Is not In I Bight to make a feeble atari on the Parleys Par-leys canyon reservoir Is there a man irfllhls city who If I ho had the money ufrl Intended to put in a work of this kind and magnlture for himself would for one moment entrust It or any part ofrjit to any of these men or to all oC them together Tho answer to that question Is forced no man of tho BUghtCBt business sense would for a moment consider any ofthem In that I r l I connection And yet they nit there and In defiance of fact logic and law make a pretended beginning on this work which they know well Is but a pretense and If It does anything at nil must merely coat the city a lot of money to no purpose It Is a shame and a fraud on the public that such things can bc |