the best people of the city, of different faiths and parties,
that the air has been laden with sulphurous fumes that can net
only be felt in the throat, but tasted in the mouth, and they
rest upon the city at night, appearing like a thin fog.

The fact is this smelter smoke will have to go; there is no
mistake about that. If the smelters can not consume it, they
will have to close up. This fair county must not be devastated
and this city must not be rendered unhealthful by any such a
nuisance as that which has been borne with now for a long time.
The evasive policy that has been pursued, the tantalizing
treatment toward the farmers who have vainly sought for
redress, the destruction that has come upon vegetation and upon
live stock, and now the choking fumes that reach this city all
demand some practical remedy in place of the shilly-shally of
the past.

The Deseret News has counseled peace, consideration for the
smelter people in the difficulties that they have to meet,
favor toward a valuable industry that should be encouraged on
proper lines, and arbitration instead of litigation. But it
really seems now as though an aggressive policy will have to be
pursued, or ruin will come to the agricultural pursuits of Salt
Lake County, while the city will not escape from the ravages of
the smelter fiend. If the companies that control those works
will not or can not dispose of the poisonous metallic fumes
that pour out of their smokestacks, the fires will have to he
banked and the nuisance suppressed. We do not believe the
latter is the necessary alternative. We are of opinion that the
evil can be disposed of, and we are sure that efforts ought to