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Show ITS BELATED BUGABOO. The church organ, in its protest against the progress of this city, uses covry little point which it thinks may stick, in its vicious "arguments" against tho bond issno. Last night, for instance, it presontcd the following "clincher": Councllmon were perfectly willing that Salt Lake property owners should pay 25 per cent higher Insurance rates ns a tribute trib-ute upon their party aJUir. Councllmon, It Booms, considered It quite regular to promise to sanction" an appointment and then oppose It. Can tho taxpayers trust such a varlablo custodian with another loan? For the sake of the argument, suppose sup-pose that tho Councllmon are worthy of confidence, but what of the powers whoso dictates they obey? j That is a ridiculously belated effort to show that an insurance rale had somothing to do with the appointmont of firo chief sont to the Council on Monday night. In view, however, of the fact that tho insurance rate had been alrcadj' fixed, and had gono into effect as of the 20th of April last, the effort to revive that fake will necessarily be a flat failure. And tho letter from Mr. Schoid, manager of tho local firo underwriters' combine, disclaiming tho alleged connection of the personality involved in xuch reduction, reduc-tion, ought to.scttlo tho whole matter conclusively. Tho Councilmen acted with perfect propriet'. If they made promises under un-der the understanding that the nomination nomi-nation as made did cut a figure in tho proposed insurance rate reduction, and I tliC3' find out later on that it. did not cut any figure in it, at all, the- are not bound No man is bound b- a promise mado under a given stato of facts, if he finds that, those alleged facts did not in fact apply or oven exist. Should tho Councilmen, then, bo trusted on the bond issue'? Unquestionably, Unques-tionably, for they aro read' nt all times to carr' out whatever they agree to on a thorough comprehension of the facts involved. In tho bond case, the facts aro all plainl- stated in a resolution resolu-tion official! passed by tho Council, and signed by the majority of the members, and by the Mayor. Tho wholo matter is plainly and unequivocally stated. There is no waT to evade, nor is there an- desire to evade. The one who questions the sufficiency of tho pledge, or its good faith, is a dishonest quibblor, whoso quibbles have force but to himself, and only to him because ho has seen so much faith-breaking among his masters, and has been obliged to faco the music to his disaster in public discussions growing out of tho odium of that dishonorable pledge-breaking pledge-breaking of the hicrarehs. But the church organ must not think because its particular coterie of rogues is dishonored, dis-honored, that every one else would like to obtain recognition in iho same roguos' gallery. Of the same charactor is its suoer about, "powers whose dictates dic-tates the' obcy'f; this doubtless also conies from a mind that knows nothing else than obedience to a dictatorial power, and that assumes every ono else io be in the same bondage. |
