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Show I FRANCHISE DID NOT COME UP. The amended franchise for thojight j raiiway coinpany did not como up at the last meeting of, the council. It Is aid that tho company failed to get another vote as was .expected. Tho daily papers wero very rambunctious in their assertions that tho franchise would ho agreed to; that somo one had sold out, but It proved to bo a tempest In a tea pot, factho matter wasn't oven mentioned. As a matter of right it is to bo hoped this franchise will bo defeated unless tho franchlso is so framed as to properly prop-erly protect tho Interests of tiro pub- I He and in tho interest of a patient and long suffering community, which is netting tired of being pesticated and all jarred up by tho wild and woolly stories being dally published by tho papers, Truth has a- suggestion sug-gestion to make to tho eight gentlemen gen-tlemen who are opposing, tho granting of the concession. If you really, truly, honestly, sincerely, cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-dlo want to knock this mat tor out, call up tho ordinance and table It by a vote of. eight to sey.en. Table It. It only requires a majority to table. Then It requires a two-thirun vote to take it from tho table. Lot ; somo one immediately move to rocon-i rocon-i slder and vote tho motion down. Then you have the situation well in hand. That will kill tho blooming affair for keeps. But If you really, truly, honestly, honest-ly, sincerely, cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-dlo don't want to defeat this franchlso keep Tight on monkeying as J: you havo been monkeying and by and ! by, when people havo got ovor being scared at tho cry of "Wolf, wolf," I raised by tho dally papors, especially tho almanac that Is Issued afternoons from tho ono story shack on West Temple street, tho light and power company will get out and skin you by ono vote. Ono vote will bo easy to got after the fuss subsides. By tho way: The esteemed Desorot News, which is fighting for this extension, exten-sion, alludes to all tho papers in this bailiwick as being "perverted," bo-causo bo-causo they do not bollovo In granting this valuable concession for nothing. In an appeal to the council Issued last Monday evening it alludes to tho "perverted "per-verted press" of this city, thereby meaning tho papers opposing It. While cheerfully admitting there aro ono or two degenerates among tho pnpers printed in ZIon Truth wants to state that not all of them aro and tho News is nrrogatlng to itself too much license In alluding to tho entire press as being be-ing "perverted." Truth opposes this deal as proposed because it Is unfair, is unjust and a gigantic graft on tho city; because it is fastening on pqs-terlly pqs-terlly a burden posterity ought nbt bear. Settle tho question and getiit out of tho way. |