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Show oo THE CITY COMMISSIONERS CONVICT THEMSELVES. The Joke of tho commissioners ad-dress ad-dress to the people is that it is double edged and double dealing. The, commissioners com-missioners give as an excuse that they granted the 50-year franchises because be-cause the Light Company could not finance Its affairs, and that tho 'hond buyers would not buy several million dollars of bonds on a franchise granted grant-ed 5 years ago by the last Glasmann administration. The commissioners, In tho Bame address, ad-dress, Bay they (the commissioners) took the matter up first with the company. com-pany. O ye gods and little fishes! Think of IL The Light Company wanted to sell bonds on its Ogden 30-year franchise fran-chise and could not do bo, and bo the commissioners proposed to the company com-pany a 50-year franchise to get a 10 per cent reduction In light rates, although al-though the 30-year franchise gave the city the right to make any reduction the city saw fit to make. What do you think of such an admission. ad-mission. And the commissioners have the nerve to ask a re-election on such a showing. These same Ogden City Commission-era Commission-era assure the people that 'they will not steal tho artesian wellB, for which they bonded the city of Ogden. We believe the stealing of the wells would be petty larceny compared with the greater offense of giving away the three 50-year franchises. |