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Show ' ' ' ' y ' ' The Trust "Doing Bnsiieis." The Utah Light & Railway, company announces that it has not posed as a philanthropist, but that it is here to do business. What kind of business is it here to do? Is it business to give a franchise extension worth hot less than five millions of dollars to a corpora-1 tion In exchange for water rights the doubtful raluo ! of which is f 100,000? A child of 10 can see that there is no "business" in such a proposition. . It is graft. - The members of the Council know it would be a crime against the people to grant the franchise extension. ex-tension. They know that If they do their sworn' , duty they will not grant it. . If they do grant it the natural assumption will be that the company has been "doing business." Uo sane man will contend for a second that there can be any reason but one for granting a franchise extension. That one isBoodle! Is that the kind of business that Is being done? |