Show THE CO CONDUIT nUIT WAITING FOR FOn WATER If H it were not a matter of oC such grave grove public contern conc concern con con- c tern cern rn that play boy handling of or the question of or water supply for the big conduit would be amu amusing It is however however how how- ever as ns alarming alarming- for the people as it is embarrassing to the American members of or the city council To o any one not blinded and drunken with political power the very first step would havo have been to secure the he water No sane councilman would have havo approved building building build build- ing that conduit right up to the source of the supply and then ask the tho owner of or the water what he would take for it The time to make terms with him was when he hep p possessed possessed se d no advantage d a tage When the he conduit Is finished he heIs Is Is-in Is ln a position to drive a a. better than before the million half dollars ollars were expended That Is a big sum of or money and the thc water owners know that rather than permit the investment to be utterly wasted the city will give rather more for the water than could have been realized at the beginning We Ye are expressing no opinion as to the price demanded demanded de de- de- de being reasonable or excessive We Ve dont don't know That Is a matter now in the opposed judgment of the council and the owners of or tho the water Later It is likely Jj ely to be In the Judgment of or the courts courts and and that at nt th the end of a n. long and costly litigation But Dut we have no hesitation hesitation hes hes- In saying that It t was bad very bad very bad business bad business to build tho the conduit and then begin to negotiate for the water The public Is abundantly warranted in condemning the majority party for It its very patent Incompetency Incompetency- or worse wore |