Show SPARE THE TREES in order that there may be progression of a commercial character there must of necessity at times be destruction the 1 tw w itself recognizes this by providing for proceedings in condemnation when improved private property cannot otherwise be invaded and improvements destroyed in order that other and further reaching improvements may be we all assent sent to this some because it to is useless to oppose and others because their depth of mind and breadth of view cause them to realize that the fittest must survive and the greatest results hold sway away but with all this established and sweated assented to there is OZ or ought to bb b A limit condemnation and destruction are not supposed to take place when there are other means equally or nearly as effective at baud or attain attainable able and even when it is not so 0 o the wanton and causeless waste and spoliation that sometimes occur should nod flad no justification anywhere it has t taken ken many a long weary year to effect the life to promoting health giving and pleasure bestowing transformation which those who now look upon this city behold in contrast with what it was originally prom from a treeless sun stricken plat it bus become a very bower of verdure from e d to end from center to circumference and along a vista as far as the eye can reach north and bouth these trees are mostly ot of the sturdy and long 1 alved ved kind reaching maturity only after many years of careful nurture and attention and then becoming a source of health and happiness by tempering the fierce rays of the miu mid nun isusi inducing humidity and importing a pleasing inviting cheering aspect to the landscape when oue one ot of these trees is destroyed it la it so s much taken from the beauty the wholesomeness ot of the scene cat ia never replaced and it should not be done unless tae reasons there fr are urgent imminent and not by auy any ordinary means to be avoided anere to is a great deal of tree slaughter lag ing going on in this city cily juat now and as the press are unanimously opposed to it it ii follows that it is without sufficient justification it if not a aple piece of unmitigated vandalism appeals tu to the det de re have so tar counted fr naught to all tig aluaL the slaughter the authors of il turu turn a deaf ear while abile lue executioner smiles whets his hia axe and proceeds with the onslaught snore more than ever it therefore follows that since the empe rura ot of the city will as usual in such cases do nothing the subjects will have to move in the matter complained of we must adopt heroic measures or have salt bait lake city remanded to the condition of a new railway town so jar as public ver verdure dare to in concerned let the first mats who hereafter fells a tree on one of our rt rests no matter whether acting under I 1 instructions or not be arrested and tried for the offense leose of it if there shall on that trial prove to have been sufficient cause for the transaction lot let him be acquitted acquit tee tes otherwise punished as the law directs dire oto and let not his own judgment or claims to that end nor that of those who sent him be received as defensive matter as an thus all proceedings must fall flat let him stand upon the same footing as aa other violators violator the fact that the law jaw was violated is a prima fade facie case making it necessary for the defendant to show justification amounting too to a consideration superior to the law as it stands and of which the court itself must judge not only lot let this treatment be applied to one case but every case until ruthlessness ruthless new and the mad bit nil stolid performance of open orders shall ceass let not the city be denuded of its trees as Is now threatened many that have been felled were not necessarily felled and let the fiat ant so go forth that not another one shall go down without sufficient authority |