Show I I Voice of w s s' s Drowned by Cracking of the O. O S. S L. L Whip I The Thc voice of the people was not so loud ud and c n i cing to some ears today as that of the tho Oregon Short Line mater master s More than 1000 property owners of Salt Lake god Lkc good d' d citizens who dearly prize their homes who ho pay taxes I OI J them I Land i aud d who wh take a keen pride in making their places a d comfortable comfort comfort- able able were were present at the city commission meeting meeting- to protest against the granting granting- of a f franchise anchise that is too lo loose bode fie i and one sided There were thousands of other good Salt Lake ke property owners own own- own 4 ers tirs and find taxpayers taxpayers' re in spirit against the sh shameful giving away away of the their r rights Q o They had nc accepted ept d i in l goods faith from men en they had elected 1 the solemn pro promises that they would look aft r the t in interests and do their duty j I J But the head of the Oregon Short Line l had ad cracked t the e whip and issued the defy that the Utah Light and Railway company m must st have what it wants when it wants ants it or i it would take tak nothing Like a pouting bo boy it must be pe humored red or it would not b be be good Three commissioners Mayor Samuel S Park Heber M. M r. r r Wells ells and Richard P. P Morris Morri in taking no chances of offending the big corporation and disregarding the protest of the people obeyed the whim and demand of the Harriman crowd Commissioner Henry VW T Lawrence and find Commissioner W. W H H. Shearman battled for fOl the property owners but their combined combine strength was as n nothing thing against tho the solid voting of the thc triple I alliance The shifty member who is is s over o hard to place before a a. battle found the Ore Ore- con on Short Lice Lile camp more alluring than the other and joined it it Like the tho bat that Hiat claimed to the birds bird it was of their kind then vowed to the beasts that it had four legs as the they and therefore there there- fore foro was not bird but beast ho he left his position in ill doubt until the tho roll roll W- W was called d Then his voice voice spoke against the city city's s 's interests Should Pay the People Commis Commissioner ioner Shearman thought that so valuable a u grant as an express franchise Iran fran chi chise e should be paid for he hel had an old ld fashioned idea that the people should receive o something in return for he the use usa of ot their streets Commissioner Lawrence also was obsessed ob with this o odd d notion But not BO so the triple alliance The Tho Oregon on Short Line chief had hail is issued issued is is- sued the decree that tho the street railway c company must have that franchise for fort years and have havo it unencumbered and the tho trio stood firm Commissioners Lawrence and Shearman Shearman Shear Shear- man said that a a. percentage o of the company's company's com cent pany's pany earnings should be bo paid to tho the city for the valuable privilege c ex cx- t tended ded Mayor Park Park Commissioner Wes Wells and Morris orris could see no reason in such a 8 silly proposal Tush Why h should a powerful corpora corporation tion lion be forced to give gie back ack anything to the people Other cities got get hi big financial returns for such liuch valuable grants but bat then Salt Lake is different Wanted Time Shortened Commissioner Shearman and Com Com- missioner Lawrence said nid It ft was wr n wrong to away such ri rights right for fort forty I years They wanted v tho the time timo shortened and proper provision pro made e for tion But not BO so the triple alliance The Tho voice of the tho big bis chief m iu the tho 0 O. b. b S L. L office called for a forty year tho the voice of the people crying out against this injustice therefore fell on deaf cars ears when it tried to pierce the tho consciences of the triple alliance Grudgingly tho triumvirate irate consented to a fow few minor operations some trivial tri amputations that would not be too ob oh- to tho the O. O S. S L L. crowd and then stood pat If the protest had hael not been sounded pounded when it was the tho ori original inal draft containing contain contain- ing int all the tho frei privileges freight ht as well as express ri rights would have gone gono through The Tho three local corporation newspapers demanded that the com corn bo be given everything o it demanded Well the complaint of the people re reo re- re moved at least a few tew of the blemishes Some Sonic cIa day clay there will come a n change here hrc and their voice oice will be bo so iO lour loud that triple alliances will wm not dare dc dot defy it it |