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Show Not infrequently has the complaint been made to us concerning some ill-mannered people who practice the dirty habit of washing in the various ditches and creeks from which many of the people have to take their water for domestic purpose. We briefly alluded to this subject in our last issue, but we now intend to deal more widely with such a beastly practice, and to present the condition of the law on this important affair. In section 5 of chapter XXX of the revised ordinances of Logan city, a person is there liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, "for each time he is found guilty of fouling the waters of any of the streams running into or through the streets of said city." A good many persons are not aware of the existence of this ordinance and the penalty attached to the violating of the same. Yet it is a standing law, and those breaking it come under the fine embodied therein. Aside from all law, however, and the penalties attached to the breaking or violating of the same, a person's natural instincts should teach him not to do such a beastly trick. Imagine a person having to drink the dirt and filth off another one's body, contained in a ditch of water that is intended to remain clean for people's use. Who, but a person of low and beastly habit, would do such a thing? People of good breeding revolt at such a procedure. We think the fine attached to the violating of this ordinance hardly severe enough for those who would thus contaminate the water that people quench their thirst with, and from which they supply their domestic wants. The streams that flow from the mountains should remain clean, and anyone defiling them, with either the filth from their bodies or the refuse from off their lots, are not only violating the law and doing an injury to their fellow-creatures, but are also defiling that great gift and blessing from the Creator of all good, who has destined that in it, the weary and thirsty traveler should find a welcome boon. |
