| Show THE THEORY OF franchises we are afraid the city council of ogden ia Is far too large tor for the city ot of ogden the commercial metropolis of the intermountain inter mountain west is not yet a chicago or a new york no matter how low eoon moon she may be until our city reaches some buch such eminence or until men who expect that it will are able to predict with mathematical exactness just what direction this growth will take it ft ia is folly to expect capitalists to come in where a pretty extensive street railway ie Is already in existence and select unused and unoccupied streets upon which to expend perhaps a quarter of a million dollars in fit establishing an electric system that two powerful and wealthy companies have been competing for a franchise to operate each such a system is gratifying proof that capital la in confident as to ogdena future kot rat that either would be willing to accept a franchise under existing circumstances and under such conditions as the council seemed last night to desire is is to doubt the intelligence of the men seeking it if ogden has the limit of her growth no body bod y Is going to ask for any more franchises for all things considered few cities of people have many more miles of street railway than we have it is true there la Is plenty of room for more but we fear too the prospects for revenue are not rosy enough to secure them it jason im eason able therefore to attribute every new application tor for a charter to the impression that tho tile city bag has not reached ita its full growth and if this theory be correct it sa Is idle to expect the new now applicants to sit down and designate now every street upon which they may in the future wish to operate they cannot do it obviously they will only run where their road will pay or where in their judgment future development will make it pay neither the promoters cf f the enterprise cor the council itself with all ita its wisdom can tell enough about the future to justify the tto expenditure of a vast sum of money on anything BO so uncertain the tile act fact that both lie the company represented by mr small and that for whom judge rhodes Rhode abas has labored with so much zeal and ability have withdrawn from the contest Is a tribute to the strength strengths influence and popularity of the project championed n ed I 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 11 7 IM r 1 1 lf 11 by mr henderon henderson it clear clears away many of the obstacles which stood in the way of 0 the cila taki ng definite action fiction II 11 leaves that body with only the ono one proposition to consider and in such consideration the points aro are narrowed down to the respecting of existing and the protection and benefit of the citizens we are forced to believe that tha the disappointing action of last evening was due duo to a desire to farther further consider these points no one should be blamed for excess of caution at the same time there la is a caution which stops not even on the verge of prohibition and prohibition in some at least ia Is not the thin thing for mankind in the present state of the world |
