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Show TIME FOR A CHANGE. The opposition of the delectable eight in the city council to the paving of Brigham street means, as we interpret it, that the church authorities authori-ties and the street car company do not wish the work done. .It would be a great improvement; it would be to all comers a notice that Salt Lake was beginning begin-ning to assume Its legitimate place among the cities of the West; it would be an evidence of the faith of the people in the future permanent progress of the city. It would increase the value of the property along that street far more than It would cost and would be a great mecntive to the people of other streets to make similar improvements, improve-ments, But if the Church and the car company oppose the impiovement that settles it and further consideration con-sideration of the matter will avail nothing. We take it that the opposition of the majority of the Council and the justification of their position by the News mean that it has been decided that the work shall not go on. The more honorable method would be for the opponents of the improvement to frankly state their opposition, and not leave it for the chumps In the council to assume thqlr friendliness to the work, but to kill it with-manufactured legal objections. ob-jections. The consideration of the matter emphasises em-phasises the fact that tlu Gentilos should take the position taken in 1888, to flock by them-seies them-seies and struggle for control, as .hoy did befoie in oruer to make possible necessary improvements, improve-ments, and have the city officers either all Gentiles Gen-tiles or all Mormons. It is idiotic to run things as they have been carried on for the past three years. To have the business of the city in the hands of a crowd determined to stand in the way of all progress and in opposition to tho direct wishes of every alert citizen, is a condition which should either be changed, or, if that cannot bo accomplished, then Gentiles should draw out and leave the responsibility whero it belongs. Gentiles should cease to help carry on the farce. When men cease to regard all party obligation obliga-tion and construe their oaths of office to mean nothing except obedience to another organization; organiza-tion; their oaths to which are more binding than their oaths of office, surely no Gentile should care to take further part with them. Salt Lake ought to have two hundred thousand people today. to-day. That it has not is due solely to the fact that the majority here have determined that they want no progress except in the line of their chinch. If tho same spirit had ruled here that has ruled in Denver during the past twonty-flve years, this city would now have been as much in advance ad-vance of Denver as it should have been because of its location and surroundings. |