Show THE GROWL ABOUT THE SEWERS A A deal of nonsense has been indulged in over the construction construction tion of ot the sewers now in progress When the project for the system which has been adopted was dis- dis discussed dis discussed discussed cussed the DESERET NEWS opposed it for reasons then set forth We have not changed our opinion We were not then nor are we now op- op opposed opposed op opposed posed to sewers for the bust business ness and thickly peopled parts of the city on oa the contrary we favored them and hope to see them in operation wherever wherever wherever ever needed needed- But we believed the construction of the main sewer to extend for several miles mUes and the pumping of the sewage from a point near the Jordan River Biver to be conveyed across the stream and then discharged in some flats fiats still further distant was an inexpedient and ex- ex expensive expensive ex expensive pensive scheme and that it was not fair to the great body of taxpayers The cost of this mainer main ver er will come out of the treasury in other words will be paid 1 d for largely by taxpayers who obtain no direct benefits from the e outlay c The lateral later l work to connect conne t with wl Wi i ithe the sew sewers rs was decided upon by bythe the majority of the property owned ownen or rather by the amount of proper Q owned in the district and district and that Ja s well weD enough as far as the right of choice choice is concerned The far fait will be expensive ve and we shall hear rumblings and grumbling from many sources b before fore the work is entirely complete But there is an attempt attempt o create creMe difficulty over this matter which te is exceedingly inconsistent It comes COOMB eo from the very individuals who w won we nearly crazy to have the wo commenced commenced They were so eager r to rush it forward that any sort mst W of a plan which promised d sewers to the business part of tb the be l city would have been acceptable They were willing to have the sewage dumped into the Jordan Jorda and to have that sluggish stream made an open sewer to tint this tt damage of property adjar and the health of the peb- peb pie peb-pie pIe who would be compelled compelled- compelled i inhale its delectable fumes fumea Ally Ally- thing to give ground for the state stake went ment that Salt Lake had a sew s stem so that the incipient eM Doom boom in the inter interest st of real estate speculators might be fostered When the present plan was waa deed deed- deeded de ld ed ad upon th they y were highly elated t ela n The City Fathers were prodded l led and goaded to begin work n a- a awas was hooted Commence the m I at any cost was the 3 f It was pleaded that it would furnish labor labor Jabor for hundreds of bf of oG men i and thus the means expel expended I would be of general he be it The work was begun Labors LaOO e were scarce Every man who e application for labor was seton set on OD fT o discrimination was made t tj tt j t t a workmans workman's s creed or party i men whose farming work w was off by the general r uth l Lame from a distance and were em employed to dig the trenches Strangers Stran latt Den Denver ver and other points wore w re put to work Praise was poured oat i 4 unstintingly upon Superintendent 1 James for his energy and he wr w ws s urged to push the work no n Ii how many m men n it might take to Site t it it- it But all at once these same same hot beaded b hot hot- hotheaded heade headed and wide-mouthed wide rs conceived ed the notion that of r these workmen were imp importe S s pie vote at the next city city- el election tio would probably not vote t the he eral 0 oral ticket Laborers hib bI e K i i t 4 I r d from Liberal away because they would not sustain the Liberal ree a to aa muse fH e and as no test of this Jd d d was applied on the sewers the fear was entertained that the men aen employed were Peoples People's Party J iten J i- i t ow there has been no test ini in J h i M a by which the politics of these theses s laborers might be discovered Work not Dot been specially furnished to tor r rv tji v aAy y Class glass to the exclusion of others j i So Ho all these Liberal fears fears and i are imaginary and only by their own own own- J and intentions y t ye t e The next movement was to raise how that too many men were em- em emY i em-i byed and that tha they would stop in r Y work occasionally and rest on OD r lr shovels hovels and look around The The Di semi idiot mi-idiot idiot whose mind seems to be bela's t-f t las teft sort of chemical and classi- classi F classi-F b y 4 chaos ori chaos in which quotations from J and Greek authors and the theL the r L z of chemical compounds are are It i mingled led ed ia is confused and Who strains his weak intellect in 1 mighty j efforts to fill up space in the organ imagined he could I A sensation by repeated refer- refer l to tD the resting of these horny- horny C ed sons eons of tf toil 11 The surest cure his l lunacy would be to make himl him l take iBe a pick or shovel for a single dip daj and do as much work on theof the of- of 9 Jawers as a are these so-called so lazy or E l j Amy y Assy unbiased citizen who hasit has it 4 i hed this wore wora and has common common common- 8 will see that handling a S or pick a pick in the heat of the sun sunt t- t l J morning until night is no sine sine- sine sine-It IL lue and that no one but a dunderI dunder- dunder t ii I d or inhuman being would ex- ex i j i men en to tD do this labor unceasing- unceasing 5 fe Without straightening their backs f 1190 tonally and taking a breath C Il f 1 W We e say say y the De superintendent and his his his- K Kare Te are deserving of praise fori for i Z J sped with which the work hasZ has F Fi i F Cn n pressed pleased ed forward and the man man- manIn mann man man-I In n which it has been done The us made have been raised V f 7 a J f purpose and that purpose has gin yn n it itself eIf by the attempt in the the the- theS 2 AW S y Council of certain members q bey y the th tb order of their Liberal r r through the organ which Ift ed a raised the howl J e proposition to let the remain part of the sewer work by con Is sufficiently transparent tor to r 3 l of the minded dullest-minded 11 At first it was not dis- dis sr Jin Ml but one good look at it expos- expos Si the whole project p 01 t IM Liberal scheme of ob ob- did not work The city has expended money for tools and apparatus to perform this labor It is proceeding admirably It will be continued in the same manner and with the same success And the Peoples People's Party members of the Council are not to be robbed of the prestige of the work which was so loudly de- de demanded demanded de demanded and make capital for their enemies by any abandonment of their policy or change in the conduct of the enterprise Of course their action in sitting down upon the obstructionists will willbe willbe willbe be misrepresented That is to be expected Misrepresentation is the main hold of the party of political political political cal destruction But it does not matter Everybody who wants to see this sewer completed will see that the proper way to do is to go goI I forward and have it finished in as asi asgood asgood asgood i good and thorough a manner as it 1 has been begun and that can only be assured by leaving its manage manage- management management management 1 ment in the hands bands which have manipulated it so satisfactorily The Council has done right in inthis inthis inthis this matter and now let Jet let the work worl proceed wort-proceed proceed without hindrance e and let those who are responsible for it pay no heed to the jibes of the weak buffoon who vainly attempts to excite ridicule or the falsifiers who maliciously endeavor to misrepresent misrepresent misrepresent sent their acts and intentions The job is bound to be eX expensive but surely they who were so urgent asto s sto sto to be almost crazy for its accomplishment accomplishment accomplishment ought to be the last to cOD complain lain of the work on on that ac- ac account account ac account count i |