| Show 1 So I q i t P Wo rc C fall fail to to see where tho time Tribune pays pays pays' any compliment to tho time American by criticizing the tIme Moris Morne Mor- Mor ne is administration In the tIme matter of the he conduit Here are a few thoughts from rom that of Satur Saturday ay The rho exorbitant demands made b by bythe the he Knudsen an and Bagley combine for theIr heir wa water el rights on 01 Big DIg Cottonwood emphasIze anew the utter lack of business business bustness busi bust ness nessen sense en e which was shown hown h by ly the time incompetent and discredited Mori Morris is administration Without getting these rights without having ha an any contract or oran an any agreement whatever with respect to o them the Morris administration let lethe the he contract for 01 building IJ tho the Big Dig Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot- Cot I onwood conduit The necessity for or getting water to torun torun torun run through the time conduit was of course the time main point In the whole water vater proposition The rime most ordinary common business business business busi busi- ness prudence would suggest that this water should bo be secured before any great expense was taken In providing means for or bringing it to the ell city First of all get gel your OUt water then provide means for bringing it In Of course the frightful bad business error of oC tho the Morris u administration did not riot excuse the time American administration lion tion In making a worse Of Ot course the time getting of or the time water was the time first thing timing That is true of ot time the Democrats It is equally true o of tho time Americans And Amid when they paid Mr 11 Moran loran seventy- seventy lIve five thousand dollars for or the time mending and arid altering of or that thal same conduit before before before be be- fore they had gon gone genie a step stel farther than thun their predecessors In the time securing of water time tho they did as bad a business deal dealas as could b by any possibility be charged against Morris and his friends If there theiu Is anything In the time argument mont merit of or the time Tribune the present officials of of- should have ha stopped every of work vork on elm tho the conduit as soon as the they got Into power The They should have hae said plainly to the owners of water If the they thought these owners were trying to hold up UI the time city that the tIme conduit could crumble crumbie t to Its Us elemental Kind and arid cement and arid broken stone before they would bring It Il one foot oot nearer completion unless they could first get a 1 fair tall settlement of the time water ator question But they not only went ahead and anti tried to complete the time conduit the they timey flung Hung near a hundred hundred hun hun- dred l thousand dollars above the contract contract contract con con- tract price Into Its cost Of oe course courso every o dollar loHar the city put Into tho Limo work was that much machi more argument that the tho city would finally pay the time owners of water rights what the they might demand for Cor water The Tho deeper the city was Involved ln the greater reater would be the time obligation to o get water at nt an any cost There Thero Is never a word of criticism of or the tho sort quoted above but applies with far force Coree against the tIme present pres pres- ent than against any former ac admin I stra t i |
