Show I THE cr CLOCK O K IS STRIKING STRIDING By L. L A. A Hollenbeck Yes the clock is striking for DOUl- DOUl der del dam And It ought to strike Th The power trust has fought it for several years ears and it is still fighting it There were some salve things regarding s 1 state stat rights that have hae been principal principally ly Iy disposed of and now the bill bUI has Ina s passed congress and approved d. d b by President Co Coolidge Because Cool Cool- idge said in In tits his late message that 11 he e was opposed to tor r. r the government nt goIng go gong Ing ng into the power power b business Srm SmOot ot t all and acid Leath- Leath rm od claim to believe e that hat Coolidge violated h his s declara declaration lion tion in his message hut but but h he lic didn't Last spring he s 's said fd he was opposed oppose to the government going into into- the tile I power business but he her r also that in this caso case the tl pow power r would b bused be bc e used to tb lift the wa water tel ov over r the the mountains moun moun- mountains onto the coastal plain of California Cali Cali- California California fornia and hence the tIle power power wa was wa merely Incidental If the bill fails of at ratification of six states then Utah has lias lot lost her water rights and n th the Boulder r dam will restore those rights to Utah forever for for- ever We e can cal use all of r the water up here all here all of or it if the time dam is ever eyer built So this talk talk of or protecting Utah as against the dam dani Is Is' all aU non non- sense The dam Jam will restore the tha water rights to Utah that are already lost not rot to say anything about the other vast ast benefits benefit that this dam darn will give givot t to Utah Since this vast ast gr great groat at west was acquired acquired ac- ac acquired by br the United nH-ed nH States three great events have hae happened First tJ The Settlement p pf pC f the Salt Lake e eal valley val rat I Ie icy ley in 1847 by y Brigham Young and his his' companions Second S cond Th Time uis- uis coyer y of or gold in California in 1849 by Sutton Sutton and ancI Third T The he construction t lion ion of the Union Pacific Railroad ad I Those were three colossal events The fourth is coming and tho the cI clock cJ is striking for the Boulder er a km-a a matter of or v vast st economic importance to tD Utah as well hell as the tho whole country country countr coun coun- try tr and particularly to the greatest great west est Sit up and tal take o notice Smoot worked ed against the Boulder Doulder taut dam and for his absence at t the time final voI e alai said he lie would I 1 voted against t it had he boon ho-boon been there Leatherwood Yo voted ed against it and nl nt made de a a. h hitter bitter attack upon It It I at the tho last moment while Colton voted against it and said nothing I i Dl But t remember that Senator WiIliam WiIl Will jiam tall iam II King ring voted for the tho bill hIU and alit andis andis is now trying to placate Arizona for lor he ho deserves the cordial anti and de dc- thanks of or tho the people of Utah I and particularly of or the Uintah basin bash mug lung l has has' risen to the limo Weights Heights af of r- r I rno o areal a no areal real statesman All honor to I Ling King 1 Regardless ne of part party all aJI hon honor r. r to 1 him hint Veril Verily the great event or orthe a t time the west is trembling on the verge of f success and the clock is striking for Boulder dam am n |