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Show The Systems at Manti and Tooele in a Flourishing Flourish-ing Condition. OPPOSITION TO INNOVATIONS NOT UNUSUAL. Two Mfii in Brigliam llimlly Responsible Fur ,111 This Lm-iil SlnTf, Ill's- ' fonl ami Disunion. The Crisis Has Passed; Now Let There Be Peace and Harmony Once More. society, placing themselves near the heuil in full command of all the wires, so they could goad on or direct the course of. their figureheads figure-heads at will, and to their hearts' content and utter satisfaction. In the capacity of boss guiders and chief wire-pullers of a number of too trusting and credulous people, peo-ple, these two men have taken stands, advised certain radical steps and made statements and allegations, al-legations, both oral and written, against our representatives in otlice, the City Council, which should bring down upon them the crushing crush-ing condemnation of every good citizen of this city. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. At this juncture, The Buuler came to the support of our Council. In our wholesale denunciation denun-ciation of these ambitious men, their unwise methods and their selfish motives, many innocent, Some rather over-drawn assertions asser-tions have been thrown out of late relative to the financial conditions of the cities of Manti and Tooele because of water works. We received reliable information from those places this week of a very encouraging nature, indeed. Manti, which has been represented repre-sented as being in a deplorable condition of debt and bondage because be-cause of water works, has within the past few weeks placed an additional addi-tional order for 5,000 feet of large mains to extend their system. That doesn't show much lack of faith and- depression on the part of the citizens of that place, does it? The water system at Tooele is also doing well. Nearly a dozen new subscribers have taken the water into their houses within the past two weeks. As was the case in Brigham, considerable opposition opposi-tion was met with in nutting in misled men in the "safety" ranks thought they were unjustly censured censur-ed by us. We wish to assure all such persons right here that they were not the object of our attacks; the subjects of our criticism. Those two men , together with a half dozen of their satellites, constitute our target, for the simple reason that they are the unnatural parents of all this misrepresentation; the guilty fathers of all this strife and disunion. They are acting with open eyes; many of their followers are not. Consequently they are directly responsible; re-sponsible; they merit the blame, while the others do not. An overwhelming majority of. the best people of this town con-! demn the injudicious actions of! these leaders: The Bcgler will j voice and support this majority, because we honestly believe the- are on the right side. We sincerely hope there will be, hereafter.but little, if anv. occasion to refer further to this lamentable rupture in the city. It is as unpleasant un-pleasant for us as for you, to be in this hot water. We don't like it; the knowledge of its existence is injurious to the city and we trust the gar) will soon disappear and all will be quiet and unperturbed as of yore. the system at Tooele. Men even went so far as to abuse and insult the trench diggers. But the chief kickers, after the system was in nice running order, wilted right down and took the water into their houses. Although Tooele is a little place of about 1,000 people, only one-third one-third as large as Brigham, 100 people peo-ple took the water from the start. Their system cost $15,000, which is. proportionally speaking, a great deal more costly than ours at $20,000 or even $25,000. The present opposition to water works in Brigham will gradually die away when the people discontinue discon-tinue taking for granted the misrepresentations mis-representations of a few ambitious and unscrupulous men, and brush up against the true facts in the case. The most rabid opposersof water works will candidly admit, in side conversation, that water works are a good tiling and that we must eventually have them; but where the shoe pinches, they wanted the City Council to consult them in the project; this was not done, and so they concluded they must kick up a row. The re a re t wo men i n tow n who are directly responsible for all this lamentable strife, commotion, commo-tion, division and that $1,000 law suit. Had it not been for them and their misrepresentations, all this turmoil and contention would have been avoided. Their loud talk and over-drawn pictures frightened and incensed the misled mis-led people, resulting in the present deplorable state of wrangling discord. dis-cord. These two men are almost wholly responsible for all this. The day following the second meeting of the oppositionists in the Court House, and before the knowledge of the existence of any " such a split or disunion had passed outside the gates of Brigham City, a representative of this paper went to these two leaders, talked to them, and tried to bring about such a state of things that the fact of the presence of this opposing element here would not have lo be published in this paper. The following Saturday, The Bi'OLEit contained a brief article, merely referring to the opposition, hoping a union would soon be elVoeled. YVe were asked by these men to use our influence to weld the split among the people and we took silence for our instrument. Several successive Saturdays passed and we barely made mention men-tion of the growing spirit of opposition, op-position, trusting it would soon die out. Then these two men, closely followed by some of their faithful satellites, put themselves on record by organizing the so-called ''safety" |