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Show H A FOOL EDITOR AND HIS F.OOL ADVIOE. H The Ogden Examiner is a peculiar sheet, to say the least. On H , Thursday it complained that the publisher of the Standard and Ogden H i City had a meeting and hud kept it from the newspapers. Then on H Friday morning, the sheet complained because the Standard publish- H , ed an account of the meeting. So aviso is the editor of the Alley H sheet, that he tells the city commissioners this morning that every H ' one of the demands made by the city must be granted by the Ogclon H Hiver Reservoir Co. H "Why does the Examiner give that advice? Because it wants to H defeat the building of the dam. Why? Because the narrow, shrivel- Hl cd soul who bosses the "Whiskey Trust sheet would rather have Og- H den never profit by the building of the dam, if the publisher of the H Evening Standard has anything to do with the success of the un- H dcrtaking. H Why are the stockholders of the Examiner complaining about H the Examiner's losses? Because the policy of the managers is not approved by the people of Ogden. The sheet does not pay any divi- H dends and it never will be a success just so long as tho Examiner's f policy is to fight a good thing simply because its competitor favors it. Hj i After a while the Examiner stockholders will insist upon a dc- Hj cent policy. Then there will be hopes of success even for the Ex- H I amincr. Hj For 20 years a score or more papers have tried to get rich' in Hl Ogden by calling William Glasmann names. Up to date they have Hl all failed. The people of Ogden know Mr. Glasmann and they will H not pay for a paper that devotes the -greater part of its columns H simply to abuse of him. H Now to the point. This comer, this repudiated scribe from Salt H Lake, this importation from Oregon, who has lived just six months Hj in Ogden, of course, knows more about the city's business than does H Sam Browning, who has just served four years as president of tho H Ogden City council. Of course, he knows more about the city's M business than does Mayor A. G. Fell, who was a member of the city M council 20 years ago and has watched city affairs ever since. Of H course, he knows more about Ogden City's business than does J. C. 1 Nye, because Mr. Nye only served 4 years as city councilman ten j years ago and has lived in Ogden only 25 years. Sure, a six months' H importation could gather all of Mr. Nye's 25 years knowledge in H his soaked cranium in just a second and a quarter. The H Examiner editor boasts that he knows more than all the people of H Ogden combined. That is just what that other jackass said, j Mr. Nye "has been the executive head of the Davis & Weber H Counties Canal company, a company that has spent more money, M built more dams and has had more experience with water and water H rights than any other dozen concerns in this part of Utah, Yet, in H one glass the Examiner man gains more 'knowledge than all .the ex H perience of"25 years has taught Sam Browning, A. G. Fell and J. C. H Nye. H LTow came Salt Lake to kick this wise Examiner man out of the H capital of Utah? How did he escape from Oregon? H Without knowing one thing about the controversy, he says the H city must not concede a point to the Reservoir company, yet tho H Reservoir company declines all demands of the city. The commis- H sioners of Ogden do not know even now how much damage one of the H Examiner owners did Ogden city while he was mayor. H When .the city commissioners are fully convinced that the rec- H ords in the state engineer's office show that the city has no rights M at the Cobble Creek dam site, that the rights the city once owned H were cancelled when that Examiner stockholder, Brewer, was mayor M and that the records in the City hall, Ogden, Utah, were so arranged M ' as to show that the city owned the Cobble Creek site, then the city H commissioners will not only be willing to compromise but will waive 1 the present demands and ask for water rights in the reservoir com- H pany and pay for the same as others do, or the city can build a dam H at some other point and pay $350,000 for the same water it can now 1 get for one-third of that sum. H which shows how much the Examiner knows all about the H reservoir and the citys business. |