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Show NO PARTISANSHIP IN IT. Tho Salt Lake Herald treats of the street railway effort to get certain privileges priv-ileges from the city, as a partisan proposition. prop-osition. It says, "A curious hesitancy about giving tho company pormission to improve its lines is manifested by tho council committee apparently on political grounds." If it is true that thoro is any apparent political partisanship parti-sanship in this matter, tho council com-mitteo com-mitteo 13 perfectly justifiod in construing constru-ing tho street railway application in a hostile spirit; becauso tho railway company com-pany has apparently relied heretofore altogothor upon tho ohurch favor and on tho church political agencies to accomplish ac-complish its ends. It got its consolidated consoli-dated franchiso of two years ago, undoubtedly un-doubtedly through tho church favor and domineering. Mayor Morris repeatedly said that he novcr would consent to certain things that he did finally con-sont con-sont to under church pressure. The church, to bo sure, is out of this company com-pany now, but still tho Horald appears to wish to continuo tho samo partisan sentiment with respect to this application applica-tion that was so strongly in evidence before. Wo do not consider, however, that the Herald is doing tho street railway company com-pany justico in presenting tho matter in this form. There should clearly ho no partisanship in anything reasonable and business-like which tho street railway rail-way company may ask. , Of course, we do not believo that tho company should havo whatever it may ask for, merely because it asks it, without rendoVing to tho city any equivalent; but we hope that tho wholo mattor will bo considered consid-ered without pressing any partisan issue, is-sue, such as tho Herald seems to see in this mattor. We are confident, how-over, how-over, that tho streot railway company will not back tho Herald's effort to havo this mado a partisan question. We see no reason why it should bo. Tho streot railway company is asking ask-ing certain privileges from tho city. It is, no doubt, prepared to render a just equivalent to the city for the valuablo things that it hopes and expects to receive. The city would not bo justified in parting with valuablo privileges and uses for nothing. This was the position of the American party two years' ago, and on that issuo in part the Amorican party won its triumph. Wo believe that tho Amorican party should not and will not consider partisanship in this matter, but that it should and will consider the principle at stake, and it should consider tho interests of the city, and should protoct and deal with them in a busincss-liko way. This, we ho-lievo ho-lievo tho Council is propared to do, and tho street railway company should be prepared to meet tho Council half way on this point of principle Wo do not, therefore, like to seo any partisan conflict con-flict in this matter, and certainly wo do not expect to seo any partisan iBsue raisod or partisan warfare made. Tho Herald is a bad friend both to the city and tho street railway, company -when it urges on any such war as this. |
