The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-30

These wilful lies are scattered sbroI
: aud while everybody does not belle
them they have an effect upon Il
, minds of the people away from her
} and that effect is injurious TO Uts
and all her residents, of whstev'
faith OF creed. Governm snt has eve
been so influenced by these ser
sstionsl falsehoods as TO officially pa
attention to them, and on one occl
zion three or four years ago cent
distinguished officer out here to IN
vestigste. The officer was so dis
gusted with the business that b
could scarcely keep his temper whel
referring to it. He soundlY denounce'
the newspaper which had placed th'
government in the ridiculous position
OF going on a "RiId goose chase,
said gone hard but plain things sbou
lying correspondents, and the score
or so malcontents who were breeding
stife, and retired from the territory E
much disguised soldier. Again,
governor deliberately steals from the
people the right to vote, and
maliciously puts INTO the highest
elective Office a man who, if be
is notorious for anything, it is
because of his enmity towards the
people of Utah and their best inter
es!s. A local newspaper justiies and
spplauds this roguery, and chucklee
over the theft. Honest men stand
sghast at the crime, and wonder
what infamy will next be attempted,
whR! scheme for checking the social,
and industrial progress OF
Utah will be next concocted. In
view Of what has transpired in the
past decade, it is something of a
wonder that Utah has not retro
graded rather than advanced. We
question il any other section OF thu
republic could have gone forward
under 30 grievous q handicap. TIE
course has been to make people, and
especially capitalists, afraid Of the
They are led 10 believe
that life and property are unsafe,
that lRWlessness prevails, and there
IS constant riot from one end of Utah
10 the other. Money being timid,
steers around the territory, and our
industries are LEFT to lsnguish and re-
sources forced TO slow processes Of d.
7elopment. All around US the ad-
vance is wonderful. Capital cannot
ind sufficient avenues for in
Testment. Colorado, with mines
Ind undsveloped lodges less valuable
han those OF Utah is fairly over
crowded with money and people.
There is a STAN pede for Arizona and
mother towards Idaho and Montana,
'et neither of those territories has
natural resources or opportunities for
he profitable investment of capital TO
qual those of Utah. But our neigh
or states and territories are not
flietsd by newspapers that are try
1g TO tear down instead of build up.
} destroy rather than create; their
ovoTnoTs do Lot deny the right OF
lfrage to tee people; they are nc:
Keyed upon by Oliques of carpet
aggess who hare no other interest
! the community than the gathering
spells of the contest. They have no
ToisI missionaries who feel that 1t
tneir duty to Fob and steal from the
3oPle; 20 incendiaries to grow fat on
no political vultures how
ing about for the carcasses which
ey hope 20 find. The business
en- of Utah understand the
uation. Tney moan, but
EN- afraid 10 speak. Bat if they
'uld change things, and bring
out bettel and mora proper con-
ion, they must speak. They must ,
t encourage By piaudits o. other /
Sc the theft of the territory By the |
vernon; they must not quietly wink .
d lei pass without contradiction .
sensational stories that are circu- 0
cd BY corrupt press; they must b
Ike strife. breeders feel that this is g
place for them, and give lying u
AID subsidized editors b
that their ISLANDERS will g
be permitted to pass as ruth, nor p
II libels go UNPUBLISHED; they must ~ y,
wreckers among lawyers know n,
t property rights are to be respec- nj
in Utah as elsewhere, no matter 81
are the persons interested. 4 ID
ne In a governor must be de
need more vigorously than in the
u without the carpst-bag-the
NJ. The merchants, the business =,
], the mine-ownsrs, can do much "a a.
ards remedying the evils which pa
e existed and do now exist here, In
it Is to their interest more than tai
of any Other class to have the 9e
edy applied. Utah has been de- he
ed OF her just dues long enough. of
hones: intelligent effort is N sde OF
can soon obtain them, though a tul
knot of unsoTupulous vultures. ny ny
a mere interruptions newspaper gel
q at their head, will first have to S25
, the wall. A H
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