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Show THE STATE PRESS. r TllJl 1,plchborln(? town secured a wlfejthrouKh a matrlmonlRl ntroncy. Thov havo been married elx wook and now ho is ?ft rJJi diVorCO; P'8 aner oxamplo of mi li,, -L" ,n .doln business with for-&ubllcan.S- PatrnU 1,0mo PPfc-IBan ;tn 0tX?i?c.0- nitsa th0-t tho term of u,0 S n?,.L1Bl8laUro, Increased from olxty to nlnoty dayu In loncth nnd tho Diiy of tho TnV d?b.lwl Serine Uh cSld no? tin ? a "nut(, Nlno nwn out of could al thmlVJ or th0 oplnlon thl" thoy u v i 0 ,th0 work nelson- bottor than It U ? ff 'VT P' d0 11 ,n one-half ths tlmo and bo Kind to cot tho lob for 1m was than wo paid now.-Mt. tleojant Pymmfd, As an IllUBtration of what a muilnc camn cited. About six year au'o tho cauntv wn aS 1'0U,1 ,b0 tornloJ "0" lilt lojl About that tlmo tho Annlo Lurlo mln0 b.-Ban b.-Ban to como to tho point. Gold mountain In Bonerol became a hlvo of proepectlnt in-du.try. in-du.try. and today Pluto Is In aa rood 1 condN nnthR n 'y Tnearl' a,nj- off county in tho Btato. It haa complotod a marnlft. cent courthouse, has. it paid for and hl monoy In tho treasury, iu obllcatlona worth 1M cents on tho dollar, a wSnorful chanso ha3 boen wrouKht In our alstor "couni H ln. thu Pt doscn years, and a creat xS-turo xS-turo Is beforo her-Rlchnold Reaper. Tho Fish Lako reclon Is wi burled ln annw and Ico that It may not bo until next Juno boforo hardy oxplorer push tholr "war into tho almost Arctic Mlltudes. John Joonsen hn completed his balloon, but may not b" ablo to mako his much advertleod Wenslon &00an,:om unUI ,at0 ln thn n" Tal bftn? r hold-ups havo been nvlnd. hns tho peoplo or Utah ror eomo weeks pai.t. Tholr plan of operation Is In oolllnff phono- graphs and records, and securing tho notes of tholr victims for the delivery of tho ffoods. "Whonovor our readers eco a man, or sot of mon, comlntr toward their homes with a. phonograph pho-nograph ln his or their arum, call tho dftfr and tend for tho pollco. nut bo suro und ltm no ,noto to oecuro tho possession of tho Brand talklnff machine. Tooelo Transcript Tho peoplo of thin tchool district turned down tho proposition to Incur an lndohied-ners lndohied-ners of $1000 to conllnuo tho pchools until tho end of tho term, at Tho olectlon List Saturday. Sat-urday. It lo unfortunato thut tho truotoea aro denied tho authority of contlnulnc tho school at tho ixpenso of tho district, but as euoh Is tho vcrdlot of tho majority of tho taxpayers votinjr at tho eloctlon. thoro lo no nliornatlvo but to ablda by tho decision. Tho educational Interests of tho district demand that tho schools should contlnuo unUI un-UI tho cafc r a a of tho sovoral Clowes aro completed, com-pleted, but It looks as though tho wolfaro of tho children must neceesarlly bo nacrlflcod for tho lack of a llttlo monoy, or thu authority to contlnuo tho ochoola on tho crodlt of tho district, llobor City Wave. On Its face, tho effort of tho Salt Lako Llirht and Tower company to fasten Itaclf on Utah'a greatest commonwealth, which would jrlvo It an assured oxlstonco for nearly a hundred rears, looks vory bad. Tho company already nun a franohlso extendlnp forty years yet Into tho future, und to nook a buslncw consideration which 6hould bo loft to 'tho peoplo iv couplo of fenerations from now has a dangerous appearance Tho offor of Sum-uol Sum-uol Xowhouso to not only dupllcalo tho Hcht and powor company'u plant, but to surpaaa It In equipment and efilcloncy. and to furnish fur-nish llirhta at from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent Icsh thnn that chartrod by tho company which now hao a foothold In tho city, was tlmoly. and no doubt Is opening the eyes of tho peoplo to how dearly they might bnvo boen sold. Rlchlleld Reaper. , PUBLTC FRANCHISES. Of nil tho newspapers ln tho State the Dcs-orot Dcs-orot N'ows stands alono ln ndvocatlnir tho granting to Uio Utah Llcht and Railway company com-pany of an extension of Ito franchise for fifty fif-ty years, which would mako It a power for good or 111 for practically a hundred yearn to como. In making Its ploa In behalf of tho company, tho News refors to tho company'u "struggles of year Cto retain Ito financial Btnndlne." Probably thoso ntrugglea havo been duo to Its attompt to carry to much water wa-ter without spllllnp a drop. Such things oflon happon with corporations. Tho proper base Upon which to tlfruro Is not a company'u capitalization, cap-italization, but the actual cost of Its equipment, equip-ment, with allowanco for depreciation and fair IntorcsL Moro than thla In an unfair tax upon thfc many for tho benoflt of tho fow. Tho plea, when olmmarcd do'wn, lo that tho company needs tho monoy. Another thing tho company ankn In that tho minimum charito it may make for olcctrlo lighting bo raised, although at present It can chargo JLS0 a month for a sixteen candle-power lamp. It la kind enough at present to chargo but ono dollar; dol-lar; but at eomo tlmo again, when new bonds havo been luuod and watered, tho excess ex-cess of moisture may make a ralso Imperative. But aoldo from nil thin and walvlnr tho hundred or moro local objections that should without further reasons conslcn tho application applica-tion to tho waste baskot lies tho fact that tho trend of modern municipal economics lies all ln tho direction of publlo ownership of publla utilities. Air a munlolpal policy It la rapidly taking CoasosAlon of Grtat Britain, moro thin two undred of the largest cities having repealed tho right of prlvato ownership by local cn actmentfl, nnd replacing prlvato by municipal munici-pal publlo ontorprlooo. Indeed. England, particularly, la procoed-Ing procoed-Ing to a radical oxtromo; Its publicly ownod utilities In somo Instances branching cut beyond street railways, waterworks, olectrlo light and gas plants, and Into bathn, wash houses, tonemont house? and cottages, docks, municipal farms and other ontorprloen. And what Is more, tho experience calnod seoms to bo eminently satisfactory. So much so that tho spirit 13 still on tho lncrcoso, and bids fair to extend In ecopo and volumo until tho reactionary point Is reached or tho socialistic nemo la attained. So long ns caoh new ven-turo ven-turo continues to mako or eavo mon'jy fr.r tho peoplo, It Is not likely that tho field will contract. To deocilbo tho various oxporlmonts In municipal mu-nicipal ownership In Oredt Britain would fill a volume, and mako Interesting reading, too. It is cntlroly beyond tho scope of a newnpa-por newnpa-por article, but It may be related In brlof that moro than two hundred cities ot the country own and operato their own water-workn; water-workn; that thero aro a hundred gas plants and more than that number of clootrlo light plants municipally owned; that considerably morr than a hundrod cities own and operate their own direct railways; that two hundred and fifty cltlos own their own markets; that ono hundred and fifty own public bntU3. wash houses and burial grounds; that forty-thro cltlos own their docks and quays: that ln all of thoso various enterprises thero Is Invcslod moro than seven hundred and fifty millions of dollars, vhleh plans already projected will swou to a DJiuon nouars, mucn mo greater part of which has boon epent within tho past ten years. The city of London ban already al-ready built tenements, lodgings and cottage all of tho ranltxiry typo, to houso twonty-flvo thousand persons, and proposes lo contlnuo tho work until at lc&st four Umos that numbor num-bor oro living in city homes Tho survico In all of theso dopartmonta has can wonderfully won-derfully Improvod and tho cost greatly cheapened. cheap-ened. Tho city of Glasgow, Scotland, owns n public library of 1W.000 volumes and Is erecting erect-ing a number of district libraries; conductu eoven model lodging-houses ono for womon which nholter 430 persons ovory night and pay C per cent profit; owns twenty-aovon blocks and buildings, containing 100 hops nnd 1352 bulldlnprt, which shelter DOOO peoplo; Subllc banks, including -Kotrtier banks for cws, and also wash houses. In which hot wator Is furnished at a trifling prlco for family fam-ily laundry work; gas nnd olcctrlo light and powor works ln which 3C00 men are employed; tho stroat railway cystcm, which omploys 3500 men and carries over ITO.fOO.OOO peoplo annually. annu-ally. Furthermore, It owns nlno nubllo mnr-kots, mnr-kots, Inoludlng ono for old clothea, a telophono telo-phono oystem that pays 13 per cent on tho Invented In-vented publlo capital; a labor bureau and a homo for Inebriates. Publlo ownorshlp of publfo utilities, suoh as water, gas, olcotrlo light and street railways Is rapidly bocomlng moro and mor common In tho United States and Is growing ln public pub-lic favor. Bvon tho llttlo city of Logan owns Itn own waterworks and electric light and finds them loth satisfactory and economical, and thero Is talk of a municipally owned olectrlo railway. rail-way. In Logan sixteen candlo-powor nlec-trlo nlec-trlo lights that put to ahamo tho Salt Lnko light of tho samo slzo, nro thlrty-fivo cents a month each, or three for ono dollar; tho prlco charged ln Salt Lako for one, Tho favorablo results attained In hundreds of experiments In publlo ownership of publlo utilities aro so convincing that It scorns Btrango to find a newspaper of standing and tnfluonoo coolly proposing to tlo up In a prlvato prl-vato company at such ratoa as suggested, tho gas, olectrlo light and Htrcot railway privileges pri-vileges ln a city with uuch promlao of growth ns hna Salt Lake, for a period of nearly a hundred years, eipoolnlly in vlow of tho ever-cheapening' ever-cheapening' cost of production and distribution of electrical enorgy owing to modern Inventions. Inven-tions. No amount of special pleading can talk down incontrovertlblo faotn so ahundntly In evidence, henco the News appears 'wilfully blind In this matter, contrary to Uh usual perspicacious atlltudo ln publla affairs. Logan Lo-gan Journal. |
