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Show POINTS OF CONTRAST. The amiable morning exponent of the ecclesiastical push Is courteous enough to say: Still, if the West Tcmplo Street Wall Insists that the employment of Japanese on the Big Cottonwood conduit contract is a crime, we'll Just' havo to let It havo Its way. But let tho crime bo charged to a representative of tho "American" party. That's all. There Is no talk her of crimes, but of that whlch'.'Fquche jneant when he said, "It Is more than a crime; it 13 a political polit-ical fault."' The Morris administration, by omitting from its contract tho clause which Mayor Thompson always Insisted upon putting ln has committed that political fault. It was an entirely needless need-less fault, too. for by letting the form of contract alone, the point would have been covered, as Mayor. Thompson cov-.ered cov-.ered It. . Neither Is It true that the "crime" is to be charged to "a representative of the American party." It can be charged to no one outside of tho Morris administration. admin-istration. For, tho bidders all had to bid as the conditions were specified; nnd as the door was held open to Japanese labor, all had to bid on the basis of Japanese labor. The force of the objection to this act of tho Morrln administration In letting down the bars has hardly been appreciated ap-preciated by the defenders of the Incompetent In-competent gang which Is now In control of the city. It was ono of the stupendous stupen-dous blundcrn which make nugatory all of tho protestations that this gnng of Imbeciles and their backers may make, of devotion to home Interests. The natural nat-ural reply to all protestations of the sort 13, "If you love home Interests so much, why don't you protect them? If you want to protect them, why did you remove from the Thompson form of contract tho clause that favored homo labor?" And to that there Is no answer. Pursuing the parable further, the same orcans squibs: Mr. ThompHOii 1b certainly tho friend of any laboring man who knows how to drive a fat horse. True, nnd he Is. us he amply proved when Mayor, the friend of any laboring man who works for the city, as he proved, first, by seeing that the laborer's pay was Inqreased, that a clause in the contract con-tract for public work Insured the home laborer employment on It, and that he should receive his pay weekly. And now, will that organ please rise and make public any friendship that Mayor Morris has shown for the laboring labor-ing man? |