| Show A SAD disagreement ir is sad to see the liberal political brethren split into sections on subjects regarding questions which they should be a unit A special question upon which opposing factions of the fraternity feel more like seizing each other by the hair of the capit instead of falling failing on each others necks and affectionately weeping is in that connected conne conDe eted with the proposed government building for salt malt lake city those who feel an interest in this theme would do well to read and if their mental digestion is good assimilate the herald washington special which appears in this issue after this intellectual exercise let them sit down and reflect upon two important alleged ingredients of the controversy that has arisen an this subject those who favor the remodelling remo delling of the woman comans Is home building and its conversion into a structure in which the government business shall be conducted claim to be animated by purely patriotic motives every time they think of the probability of uncle sam being put to the expense of purchasing a new site and erecting a completely new structure their financial souls are worried with monetary grief in case the proportions of a corpulent national treasury should be diminished it is not to be presumed for a moment that auy any other motive inspires the movement such bich an idea would be more than absurd especially at a time when a real estate boom is on there can beno be no doubt about th patriotic economists having an argument on their side of the controversy that maks makes their antagonists feel as if they had been seized where their hall hah is shit the failure of the womans comans home to accomplish what its promoters asserted it would three w women I 1 olaen and six olk children do not constitute a eon concourse course of inmates for a building of palatial appearance and pr proportions it may be said right here that the situation depicted in the plea of the economists who are pained with the prospect of in an unnecessary inroad upon the national coffers demonstrates beyond sue BUC controversy that the up appropriation for the structure was secured by misrepresentation and false pretenses proof of this was given at the time subsequent evidence being merely confirmatory of what was previously exhibited but those who oppose the parties who put up the utilitarian and economic plea recoil with horror at the bare suggestion that the womans comans industrial home lias has proved a failure a fact made exceedingly plain by the utah commission and mrs ferry as well as the present agitators this attitude of standing aghast is in consequence of anticipated du damaged maged reputations 11 that means that if such ouch a condition were proved it would also furnish proof that those who lobbied and urged for the ap atlon to build the home were woo also economists economist being parsimonious in the use of truth and correspondingly lavish in dispensing its opposite in attempting to cover the naked new nese of the original schemers the reputation protectors assert that the rome home was procured red as money market manipulators sometimes bome times in stocks on n futures forward points the view to future benefits this does not agree with the plea of urgency which induced congress to make the appropriation in order to make this futurity point consistent it will be necessary to change the rule in relation to progressive figures figurea r solve this problem if the industrial du home had sixteen inmates in january 1889 and nine inmates in august of the same year how long a period would be necessary to fill the building at the same rate of An increase crease we do not favor the utilization of the home by incorporating it in the proposed government structure |
