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Show THE CITIZEN of the national attention attracted by his debates with Stephen get better water for their lands than they heretofore had? Coj A. Douglas in 1858, in which he took a pronounced stand against water chills the ground and retards the crops ; warm water aty slavery, Lincoln was nominated and elected president in 1860. the crops. His inauguration was the signal for the secession, one after anIf the city is to lay this new watermain service forty the and for states of of slave the the South, organization other, not give the taxpayers the information as to ty of the Confederacy. Hostilities began with an attack by the farmers, why South Carolina Secessionists on the Federal troops at Fort estimated cost of the entire project. Does the city propo Sumpter, April 12, 1861. The fort surrendered the next day. to lay watermains for the entire county! On April 15 the President issued a call for 75,000 volunteers, and Will meters be placed on the farmers premises or t) the control of events passed from the cabinet to the camp. Linthey be allowed to run their taps day and night! Will the coln proclaimed a blockade of the Southern ports, April 19, 1861, mers be charged for this extra water service and will they h and on September 22, 1862, issued a proclamation emancipating supplied with water out of the proposed 900,000 gallons allotted all slaves in states which should be in rebellion January 1, 1865. to the city! If they are not metered, we will venture to He was occupied with plans for the reconstruction of the South that 900.000 gallons of water will be nearly used up by the 79 when he was assassinated. to be installed, which means that the city will furnish ty taps Lincoln was- born in 1809 and died in 1865. farmers with canal water, also lay watermains for them ml pipe the fresh mountain water to their very doors. "Under mj WHAT PRICE WATER conditions it is no wonder that a request is made to raise taxes. some good This city has made several trades for water, It looks like poor business to us, and while we have c for and some bad, and at times the taxpayers have paid dearly investigated the matter thoroughly, we have heard suffice! econtransactions which otherwise could have been much more comment on the matter to condemn such water trades. I out and purhad fact In handled. city agents gone No city should invest the taxpayers money in propositi(p omically chased the farms along the water ditch outright, the city in which perpetual title is not vested. Otherwise a dav would have saved thousands of dollars. Not only that, the city come when big lawsuits will prove far more costly than the a would have acquired a perpetual water right. tire original cost of the water trades. Not so long ago a water trade was consummated for a porIf the city owns the water outright, and has an overall! t tion of Big Cottonwood water, which required the installation ance of water, then it is able to lease part of the water to fan of an expensive pumping plant to pump water to the farms. ers for irrigating purposes. In lieu thereof, the city is getting extra water out of Big CotOur poor water deals with the farmers are costing the to tonwood. It is said that the city did not have to use one drop payers of this citv immense sums and the time has come vk of that certain Big Cottonwood water last year, yet the pumps our water should be secured upon a sound and firm busk were kept going and the farmers furnished with canal water. basis and owned outright by the city. "We are also against the idea of laying watermains systa Water experts have told us that already more money has been spent in this one deal than it would take to purchase all the in the county, especially in localities where the city limits ns farms in that entire district. never reach. Now comes another water trade. Arrangements have been Think it over, Mr. Taxpayer : you foot the bill. made to trade citv canal water for Mill Creek water. The terms of this little and innocent appearing transaction proFORGETTING vide that the city is to acquire an imperfect title to about 900,000 Senator Smoot of Utah says that it is impossible to deb gallons of water from Mill Creek by paying the farmers $23,-50- 0 as a bonus in the trade, and connecting at least 780 water the American flag and an international flag at the same ft services to residences. and he is quite right in his assertion. Local political divisions, changes of government from par Does the city also have to lay this new waterworks system for the farmers ; or will the county pay for that ; or will the to the and managership, as we look at: is creating a new thought as regards party form of govern farmers pay for it! of t Has the city commission told the people what it will cost "We are losing our individuality in a general melting pot fl the taxpayers to lay this new waterworks and how much it will merous leaders, each of whom professes to have something y ter than our heretofore successful regime. cost to keep it in repair! B havet will And we we unless unwhats of more, get busy, 1923, But how about this. In the engineers report fifteen men running on different tickets for president, wiftj 4 der the caption of introductory we read : sorts of propaganda as a cure all for our political ills. W tc The closing of the deal with the East Mill Creek such glaring truths and conditions, is it not natural for onrpf tc of the water - of Mill d Water Company for pie to gradually drift into internationalism! w Creek, amounting to an average of about 4000,000 galmus For a country to prosper and grow, its people lons daily, which was consummated July 19 last, gives triotic. Anything that undermines patriotism has a deaden (1( the city its first interest in this stream and involves effect upon ioyalty and the subject citizen becomes indiffer d directly the construction of about 20,000 feet of culito how government is administered. P nary pipe lines, most of which have been completed. foi new Exof cities established a In our we have Mill Creek many According. to this same report, the East change, and the Culinary Pipe System cost the city $20,429.42. government, they call Did you ever see a real American who was not a Repwj lx The auditors report shows bonds issued to the amount of $16,700, October 1, 1923, for the above system. Were these or a Democrat ! If you have, a short conversation along P0 0 bonds used as a bonus, or is that money included in the" first cost lines will soon convince you that the person is also an ft tionalisi mentioned! "What better protection can the people have than to eM d If these pumping plants go out of commission and farmers crops are ruined for the lack of water, is the city liable for party sitting as a censor to the party in power! Let us practice government as proyided by the Consti? n damages! Are the taxpayers properly protected in these water of the United States. It will not only create patriotism, deals! Expert agriculturalists tell us that warm canal water is nate internationalism, give us cleaner politics, but will gff: 01 much better for irrigating than is the cold water fromour can- much more satisfactory form of government, a governmeI1 k yon streams, then why pay bonuses to the farmers when they the people, and not one by a dictator. -- far. mi f so-call- ed non-partis- an fc two-part- one-thir- ,'J non-partisa- n. ! |