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Show The "Safety Society" So-ciety" Fast Going Go-ing to Pieces. ITS FATHERS SHAMED And Disgusted With Their Unnatural Offspring. Many Emphatically Refuse to Give Needed Nourishment. Nour-ishment. flat Some Men Will do to Attain Their Sells! Ends. ivmivu issKsiii.sTiii!K.m:jitis-mniov issKsiii.sTiii!K.m:jitis-mniov iii tiii: mrujimii; H.1ITI.VRSX OF Tin; I ITV. Error and Flagrant, Dishonesty Seem to lic'J'licirllandinaids. COMBATING FACTS THATDON'T LIE Tin' l ily Mniiii'i'il Willi UliL'Jimi I pun l.ilisiiliiiii lliir Ilin-il-Kiinicil Taxes lining LiU Chair. Before Be-fore Hie Uiml. A Half-Thousand Dolhirs or City Money Gono Already to Fight this Factious Fac-tious Clique Who Seem to Scruple at Nothing. Th( article in last Saturday's I!ni!i.i:i:, showing thn sandy, dangerous danger-ous foundation upon winch tiic Boll'-ilulibcd "safety" society stands, was an eye-opener of importance to hundreds of good citizens of this city, who were hcing (uietly misled by the oily speech of our fast sink- lars on the backs of our poor people peo-ple who, God knows, have burdens enough to carry already. Second tumble of our local Daniel! Our Mantua friends make no complaint, but these insanely officious -'safety" howlers cry "free-ilom" "free-ilom" from city restraint. Mantua has constabulary protection and police officers and every cent paid for city luxes is expended on their streets, creeks and roads, notw ithstanding ith-standing the "safety" members' depositions to the contrary. They say the city is in debt. That is absolutely false. Before they instituted this expensive suit, the city treasury contained over $1,000 over and above all existing debts and liabilities, some ifoOO having been paid in since the preparation pre-paration of the linaneial report, which appears in this issue. Already Al-ready the wiseacres' suit is greedily gulping down the poor people's money. After today's expensive hearing at Ogden, counting lawyers' law-yers' fees, etc., etc., the city will he out of pocket at least ;!00 to $o0O. Before the final settlement, which may be months and years hence, this entirely uncalled-for suit may cost us our thousands. Fellow citizens, citi-zens, this money, every hard cent of it, must be drawn from the pockets of you and me. It is a diabolical outrage that a cranky few can strap such hardships upon us. Again; they affirm that if Brig-hani Brig-hani is bonded for $27,000, the city "will become indebted to an amount, including existing indebtedness, indebt-edness, in aggregate exceeding 4 per cent., to wit: G per cent, of the city's taxable property." . The total taxable property, as previously pre-viously stated, is $711,!'''''. Four per cent of that is 'MR.'f 77.32,ivhic-li was our bonding capacity when our bonds were disposed of. These figures are incontrovertible. Should the courts decide to throw out all property outside the platted district, the bonding property will ing local Solomons. Many of these too trusting and credulous people have already turned round and emphatically declared de-clared Hint they will no longer father or suppurl such a one-sided organization. They are fast finding oul that the prime leaders of the clique (when we speak of "clique" we refer only to the chief movers, we wish it to he expressly understood, as many a good, worthy man still hangs on, doubting) are, with few exceptions, animated by selfishness, ambitious motives, petty jealousies, or old standing hatreds. What hazardous steps such men take to secure their ends! They will hesitate hesi-tate short of nothing, and the more they can drag into the mire to perish willi them, the jollier will he their drowning. We held up to the light of in-ti'Uigeiiee, in-ti'Uigeiiee, and punctured hut one of their weak, shaky arguments last issue, but there are others in- bo reduced to $52, 55S, which would cut our bonding capacity down to $21,302.32. That will be almost enough to put in the pro-. pro-. posed system of water works, anyway. any-way. An un-Daniel like failure, sure! No one's previously acquired water rights will be infringed in-fringed on, which is an idea some attempt to spread. The Council can't do this and no one knows that better than they. They have three ways of securing water for the proposed system. First, by ditching water from Devil's Oate canyon lo Box Elder Creek; second, by purchasing purchas-ing artesian wells from a gentleman gentle-man who claims he can secure ample ipiantifiesof water in Mantua valley, and is now sinking wel Is for that purpose; and third, by digging out and increasing the llows in the Matbias and Evans canyons, from which water will be obtained. But the culmination of this rabid numerable which can be as easily and effectually knocked into a cocked hat. The complaint made in the suit against the city is replete with misstatements, mis-statements, erroneous figures and false inferences. An at lent pi to carry their point by unfair and even obviously dishonest representations represen-tations slicks out at every crack, liead further and judge of the truthfulness truth-fulness of this statement. In their wail to King t,aw, the money-ealing giant, they declare that our taxable cily properly does not exceed $100,000. We'll see. Last Kridav, Mayor .lenseu, County Clerk l'eters. Councilman Steed pot of ridiculousness is the boiling it all down in a IVeksniflian prayer to the court to forbid ourcity Conned! Conn-ed! from bonding! "What fools these mortals be." They knew full well that the bonds had already been sold and $ 1 .-'"'O deposited to clinch the bargain. But the ass will accidentally acci-dentally show his cars above the cloak of the lion. These bonds have been sold and re sold, which makes retract ion still harder than ever. Besides the suit between be-tween brothers at home, another threatening litigation looms up in the distance: Blair v Co.. wealthy New York bankers, and he second and Assessor IJurt carefully examined ex-amined the tax lists, obtaining the actual valuation of city property as follows: rniperlv in plallcd limit.. IVJ.ariS " " in niit-kirtHol lown. . M.HMi in railroad lit.L'oe j " in Mantua . f'-Li'TTi , Total 7ii.ia; I The aVovc named gentlemen will testify, under oath, to the convet j ness of these figures. That's sillli- j cicnt; compare the records of the1 two sets of men and drawyourown conclusions. One is right and the ; other is right wrong. hose word would ou lake first? That settles, the ijuestion. The next unbusiness like move is the height of nonsensical folly. It is a short-sighted step to forever cripple our prosperous city Uith financially and commercially, by decreasing our bonding capacity. Should this hold good, it will also roh our city coders of from $oiHt to $o00 railtoad taxes each year. This palpably unwise depri vat ion will fore- the saddling, to the delight of our plethoric railroad king:', each year, of another half thousand d-d- purchasers, won't give up the deal ; short of a hard struggle in the courts. They have secured the: bonds and will naturally light fori them. Litigation! litigation! Htiga-' tion! Sages, speak : what i Lie end ? A swamped city? It looks like it. The situation now is: Shall we be imposed upon by a half dozen j meddlesome busydioi I ies ami be led 1 into two costly law suits with not . i even a ra v of encouraging light ! bre ;king through Ibe foreboding ' : clouds. or turn sharply round: follow 1 ; the dictates of our calmer judg-; judg-; menl and belter natures; listen l ! the advice and counsel of mir w I-c. 'venerable gray-haired latin r-; uphold up-hold our City Council, who-e ad-. ad-. ministration has b, en careful and : prudent, the opposite of extravagance; extrava-gance; kick out lb-1 croakers and march smooibly and harmoniously ; OH as of yore? Come; lul usextrieale 'ourselves with all po--ib!e dispatch dis-patch from the pcndiic dan-z-r : of two costly law suits, w hieh short-sightedness plmiu'' d u- into. that we may once more enjoy t he supreme ha pphicss of he i tin ' again eov7 r,s. reeling piiet!y and unperturbed in the c.dm, p acef i 1 City of H-nv s, |