Show MUCH PUBLIC SPIRIT IT is stated that a syndicate is moving to prevail upon the government to establish the proposed public building in the eastern part of the city and for the attainment of that object has dispatched an agent to washington it is asserted that a part of the scheme la is to induce congress to wipe out the in lu home and use the building as a portion of the intended government structure by this means the proposed appropriation could be reduced this proposal causes great comrad tion in the breasts of nf a certain coterie among the active politicians of this city they are determined ned to fight the proposal of the so selfish fish syndicate to the bitter end this opposition in is alleged to be inaugurated on several grounds which it may be later inter esting eating to make a note of A basis for contention against the scheme of the syndicate is that it was known I 1 in P at advance vance ti eliat tat it would be fought with all the power that slumbers in the mormon church it the industrial home was built as a railroad is sometimes built into the not for what it would do at once but for foe the business which its presence would eventually build u no effort of the church was ever put forth to defeat the establishment of the institution in question even it if the of this journal be taken on the subject as ae that of the church the NEWS never offered an objection to the inauguration of the home but did most decidedly object to the depraved and conscienceless celess course taken in the effort to obtain the congressional appropriation pria tion slanderous Blun derous falsehoods were used to deceive congress into making it aud and numbers of those fabrications were refuted by officers under the the united states government and were published in thu the congressional record as well as in local papera of this territory neither was the appropriation asked for ou on the ground of future benefits or usefulness the record showing the claim of urgency in every phase it was represented that large numbers of people of the class it was intended to benefit the plural wives and their minor children of poly rendered desti tute by the operations of the anti polygamy laws existed and were ready to rush into such an asylum the evidence of this gigantic false hood existed to in the fact that if we recollect aright the highest number of inmates of the institution at one time since its establishment has been nine more or less the opponents of the syndicate are distressed at the bare thought of the home being by the now new proposal placed in the light of a failure this would result in damaged reputations we admit ad att that it goes a long way towards proving the instigators sti and promoters of the institution to be the lead leading ing tors of the nineteenth century a position the NEWS placed them in at the time the appropriation was asked for and when the dis guati squabble subsequently ensued over the question of who should manipulate the fund the op posers of the latent scheme are abw worked up for the welfare of the many thousands of people yet to he be accommodated their philanthropic souls are agitated into ina a condition of fermentation in relation to future beneficiaries benefi ciares clares when the nine shall be indefinitely and enormously multiplied such farsighted far sighted benevolence is seldom met with being sufficiently deep to be tinged with pathos it is perhaps just a little marred with the expressed fear of damaged reputations M and that engendered by the possibility of a public building being located at a point distant from a situation more devoutly to be wished notwithstanding all this we also are opposed to the proposition of the syn syndicate licate on a good many grounds the home should not be interfered with and its absorption by the pro posed government structure would be a mistake the appeal to the stingy side of the government he che plea of reducing the appropriation is small business we cannot have too many government edifices and instead of being opposed to them we would like to see them as thick in this city as postage stamps on a letter from the orient so far as relates to us we would not object if the town were plastered all over with public structures anybody who ini imagines agines he be can get ahead of us in desiring to we see them planted here will have to getup get up early in the morning to formulate estimates of the number and magnitude of the edifices of that character he would like to s see erected like the opponents of the scheme of the syndicate we not only object to any red reduction fotion of the possible number of public buildings butare somewhat particular as to their location consequently the NEWS must oppose the establishment in the suburbs of the one shortly to be built it would look iak like a scheme to increase the business of street car companies livery stables and shoemaking shoe making establishments to have I 1 the he site so far from the business centre of the city as the syndicate desires we propose to stand by this position but io do not care to mix it with simulated philanthropy pointed toward future generations Kene rations nor with downed damned reputations M especially when an n some cases the latter operation is a practical |