Show 16 LIBERAL colonization correspondence of the DESERET NEWS A large gang of workmen are operating on east south temple street and on streets running north on newer trenches at such a season of the year and during such severe weather it occurs to a casual observer that it is a very expensive piece of business with frost out of the ground and milder weather it will be readily admitted that a man will do twice as asmuth much in the spring ng as he possibly can now under such adverse circumstances cuesta cum stances ces then why keep such a large number ot of men employed at work now when it could be done better and at one half the cost later on besides there is no immediate necessity for sewer connection now DOW it will answer just as well it not better dext next march A april il or may then why to is it that mr ari van houten keeps such a force of men there doing comparatively nothing are the reve revenues nuen of the city s 9 great and the coffers so full that the taxes must be i squandered in this way or are toe the people living along that way so rich that they can afford to pay now double w what hat it would cost later on there must be some reason for employing so many meta mein in such inclement weather and perhaps what the writer board beard in passing along on tuesday and wednesday mornings of this week will reveal the hidden mystery A on the morning first above mentioned one of the workmen approached a sub boss and was heard board to say well where do you want us to go the sub boss answer ed go up on the hill bill there the answer was H 11 well freeze to death on wednesday morning two men were engaged in conversation at the place where the men are digging and one of them was heard beard saying to the other H 11 ll heres another gang coming and I 1 have a d d sight more men than I 1 can find work for the absolute truth of this can be attested by another besides the writer wo was also aldo an auditor of the elegant language that emanated from the regions of the sewer trench can it be that Libe liberal raP colonization iq IH going on again in the fourth precinct of course the municipal election is near at hand and the conversation versi tiou above reported looks a long way in that direction what a government our city has hael exorbitant taxes imposed to be squandered it reminds one of how lord beacons field characterized the english liberal government in 1870 he said that their policy or administration had been one ot of plundering and blundering how long will the people submit to such incompetent administration I 1 suppose we shall refuse as national nat lonal par susans to unite to secure good government and thus allow the tramps and colonizers that marshal under the name of liberals to have a walk over in february and rule and ruin our city and blast its ita fair name fur for two years more at leat As a taxpayer tax payer and property holder I 1 enter my solemn and protest cotest against criminal incompetence and extravagance res DAVID L MURDOCK MURDOCH |