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Show i TtVCcjohry of tbs Ntws. .We say to our city officials, you ought to use your own calm Judgment and sense of right, without regard to the irrational objections and silly suggestions of excited or intriguing persons and papers. If you are urged into any act of injustice or scared from doing fairly and squarely both to the city and the company In; this matter, you wUl gain nothing politically or otherwise in : the long run, but will lose your own self-respect and the sup . port of the honorable and stable of our citisens. You are expected ex-pected to do the right thing, to aU parties, and not be swayed by any kind of clamor. . Thus speaks the Deseret News in attempting to bolster up the cause of the Utah Light and Railway cpmpany. . The fact is the News is the direct, undisputed .organ of the quadruple trust It does not represent . the interests of the people in any sense. The News isi as much the organ of the Utah Light and Railway compaify as Mr. Young is its paid attorney. . s But Attorney tYoung "occupies a totally different attitude from that of the Xews. He(is assigned to look after the interests of the company before the City Council and it is his duty to get what he can for his employers. The News pretends to be a, newspaper newspa-per and to fulfill the mission of a newspaper. It : ewes something to the people,, but it does not give it. The News makes special pleadings for the quad-. quad-. ruple monopoly and seeks to divert the issues and cajole the Councilmen into forgetting that THEY . WERE ELECTED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, PEO-PLE, not the corporations, and that they must answer an-swer to the people for their acts-'. acts-'. The members of the Council, whose votes are to determine whether four great public utilities are - to be. delivered over to one monopoly beyond recall by the wiping out of ajtf means of forfeiture for violation vio-lation of the laws, had best be careful of their votes. THE PEOPLE ARE AROUSED ON THIS QUESTION and the cajolery of the News will-not serve, to stop the storm which will gather should the ':, franchise ordinance be adopted. 1 t - - - . - . . . - . : |