Show OUR FIRE department we weday say so advisedly it is OUR oun fire department inasmuch as the OGDEN HERALD is the peoples peo plea paper and as such considers all institutions sti of a public character a aa its own an especial caro care wo we have been pleased in taking of those organizations which tend to the pro of public and private property among these am are foremost the two branches odthe of the fire dopart department part ment we have seen the boys rushing to fires from ali air business at all hours of the day lay and night 0 we wo ha have seen them climbs climb ing the ladders pas passing silla the b buckets pumping he the water facing th the flames risking loss of lie or limbs and all to save the property and live livel of their neighbors n rs we have seen them coming back from bercic efforts scully expended in the protection of their fellow mens interests exhausted kh austed fagged bagged out worn out in incapacitated capac stated for a day or t two we sometimes even injured always with damaged cl ollied and impaired health all this the members of our fire department have done times and times again 1 and what have been their thanks the approbation of all good citizens and a paltry remuneration by the city treasury wh which ich does not even pay for the shoe leather they wear out and which they do not even use for their own bene fit but for tho the creation and maintenance of a sick and accidee accidental tal fund ob oh no there is another thank they get that is the kick of a mule through the alleged editorial colu columns mno of the nondescript p t nuisance which renders fourth street malodorous and malarial from its headquarters in the old postoffice Post office lice that imported impostor sheet which dishes up three week old items for news and only makes a noise by echoing the utterances of balsams Bala ams beast came came out this morning with its first original editorial for six months it was original too for ananias would have been ashamed of the lies it contained and the worst blackleg in a bay city bagnio would have blushed before uttering the vile and villainous insinuations aoud on the fire department had that institution anything to lose lobe by fire except its reputation which is as proof against fire as against water there might be 6 an excuse for them to make themselves foolish but as it is the individuals in that concern concerti own so much property in other peoples peopled names that the they are ve very fy solicitous about having it saved it would be almost an insult from us to try to refute the lous slanders and scandalous in insinuations ainu jf of the alleged newspaper of 1001 editors to try to vindicate the gentlemen composing the brave aid and ever vigilant disinterested and valiant corps of the hose irose cart co and I hook look and ladder co against the asinine and assassin aspersions of that semi bankrupt bawdy sheet would bo be to give a colorow color of credis crudi ability to its inane and insane lines all wo we have to tell the boys is to consider the source whence it comes and not to dirty their hands by touching it or its abettors abet tors the city government and all law abiding citizens and honest people are pleased and proud to own the hose cart ariae and the hook and ladder companies as OUR oun FIRE department |