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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postofflce at Salt Lake of March 3, 1879. City, Utah, under the Act 8alt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 811-12-- 13 O POLITICAL BUNCOMBE If there as ever a time when the people should stand up for American language, while a clean American is denied the rights to stop and take a birdscye view of the canyon? their rights, aye even their liberty, it is today. Our city commissioners contemplate closing some of our We deny that fishing in a stream polutes the water nearby streams to fishermen and campers upon the allegation We also know that if the people allow officials to close Parthat the fishermen polute the city water supply. leys, it will not be long before every stream in the state will be This allegation is unjustly made. It is not only an infringement upon the personal rights of the people, but it is an insult closed. ! to hundreds of innocent people to charge them with criminal neglect and nuisance in our canyons. We do not deny that there are some people that are filthy and should not be allowed in our canyons. But, city commission, are you going to punish 99 per cent of the people for the filthy habits of one per cent? Would it not be much better to have competent patrolmen for our canyons, backed up with heavy fines and imprisonment for all those who violate the decent laws of man? A stream like Parleys should receive some attention. Camping should be permitted on the stream in certain places where there is little danger of contamination, and under supervision there would be no danger to the health of the people. In 1921 the writer visited Brighton on an inspection trip because of information given him. There was one cess pool in particular tliat was running over and the filthy 'Water was running into the stream. Houses have been built, and some of them recently, so close to the stream that the water can be reached with a ten foot stick. Sewage is hauled a short distance and dumped into a shallow hollow which from general appearances must seep into the main stream. Many of the summer homes have cess pools, and we all know what an abominal thing a cess pool is in close proximity to culinary water supply. Ilow is it that Dr. Christopherson has failed to see all this, or has tills evil been corrected at Brighton? The summer camps Ctf various organizations has been encouraged by our mayor in Big Cottonwood, and according to reports they commit all sorts of nuisances. This paper wishes to go on record to state that one human being will cause more polution to water than several herds of cattle on a water shed. We cover our farm lands with cattle manure and plant all our vegetables in it. Continual irrigation and rains keeps the ground and manure soaked up and vegetables thrive, vet we eat them. Why then so much fuss about a few cattle m Big Cottonwood, when there is or was a multiplicity of cess pools in that The Commercial Club collects $75,000 a year to advertise this city and state, and when the tourists come here they are told that they must not stop to rest in our beautiful canyons. Some politician has always got a pet hobby, if it is not smoke, it is mosquitoes and now it is the fisherman. We always have a few politicians who like to keep the pot boiling. The way the press has handled alleged water polution, outside citizens are made to believe that we have filthy water here, when in fact we have the best water it is possible to supply any city. Our pure water is the talk of the entire country. We ought to ship Mr. Christopher to St. Louis or Chicago for a short visit and make him drink the tap water of those cities. We wager he would return an entirely reformed man. We take this opportunity to ask the county fish and game association to visit Brighton, as well as some of the mines in Big Cottonwood to inspect sanitary conditions, and we will further state that if the conditions have been allowed to go on as they were in 1921, the sportsmen will not only be horrified at what they find, but will wonder why there is so much blame attached to them when the injury and damage is done by others. If for one moment The Citizen thought that the fishermen were poluting our drinking water, we would be the first in this city to condemn them, but from our own personal observation we know better and we herewith issue a challenge to Dr. Christopherson and the city commission to show how a fisherman can polute the water if he has on a pair of good rubber boots or fishes from the bank of the stream. Surely a silk line and a fly hook can do no damage to water. Let us have proper supervision and retain our rights as American citizens. What appears to us is that proper supervision of our canyon streams is the most essential thing at this time. Our beautiful canyons are the art work of God to be enjoyed by man, and yet we have people among us who would absolutely bar us from such enjoyment. It is no wonder that the people of this country are becoming canyon? utterly disgusted with political affairs resulting in general disO Again, why close Parleys, the cleaner stream, and leave respect for many of our fanatical laws. What we ought to have in our law is a recall and referenBig Cottonwood open, the more filthy stream? What is the city commission going to do with the cement dum in order that the people could eliminate from office fill radworks in Parlevs canvon, the citv farms and the families that ical reformers and politicians who play to the galleries. are living in the canyon? Are they to bo privileged characters, The polls is the place to settle all such differences. made so by law, some of them foreigners who cannot speak the The fishermen must stand up for their rights. 4 |