The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-24
AN uNFoUNDED PREDICTION.

candid and reliable journals on the Pa
cifc Coast, in recent issue, speaking OF |
Utah and its prospects, says among
other things that during the ten years
from 1870 to 1880 Utah increased in pop
ulation at slower rate than any of our
Territories except New Mexico. Just
now it is an advantage to the Mormons,
in a business way, to extend theirs settle
ments in Idaho, Arizona and Colorado,
but political foresight would counsel
them to I concentrate in Utah, if
they wish to prolong their control over
it, for the day is coming when the Gen
tiles will become numerous enough to
dispute it. with certainty of ultimate
success"
THE HERALD comedies some of its
neighbor's points and denies the rest.
The day.is not coming when the Gen
tiles viii dispute the numerical
supremacy of the Morlnons with even a
fair prospect of success, for several rea-
sons. The Gentiles are entitled to all
they can get in political way by means
OF superior numbers or the operation OF
law in this Territory. and nothing
more; they do not rs class live here
because of any especial preference for
the country, physically or socially con-
sidered, but because there is money to
be made here, mainly obtainable
through mining and the var
led sources of wealth consequent
upon that industry; it takes hard and
persistent toll to wrest anything from
the naturally stubborn elements here
about, and to persevere and labor to the
extent required to produce bushel of
wheat here, would elsewhere represent
greater yield. The mines are, if ap-
pearances are worth basinga conclusion
upon, improving rather than retro
grading; but in esch and every in
stance they are tolerably well re-
presented in the matter of investors
and laborers, so that no great accession
to the ranks of the so-ealled Liberal
party is likely to result from that
at any time or at all. They are welcome
if they come, but they will not come
unless there is something for them to
do when they get here, or the prospect
OF it, and as a rule they do not care to
follow agricultural pursuits for the rea-
son above stated, that they can do better
in that line of business elsewhere. Stock
raising is a profitable enterprise
here, but it requires capital to begin
with, besides great deal OF patience
and care as one goes along, and a man is
apt to think twice before investing when
he can place his money where the re-
turns are more closely at hand and less
hampered by inevitable disasters All
other commercial enterprises depend
mainly upon the above mentioned
interests for their prosperity, and need
not be specially stated. On the other
hand, the Mormons inhabit Utah
because they prefer to be here; no mat
ter if there were not a paying mine
in the Territory or head of stock on
the ranges; they found neither when
they came, and would live along just as
they did the first several years, because
they prefer to live here. The earth
yields living, no matter how try
ing the toll required to produce it may
be; and if there should ever be
an exodus of considerable magnitude
from this part of the nation-an event
which we neither expect nor hope for
the number OF Mormons embraced in it
would be so few as to be scarcely worthy
OF Northumberland they are bound
here by other ties than those of mer-
| camille interest. They look upon the
sun-tinted mountains in the morning
as smiling promise from above, and
upon the shades which come with
eventide as call to repose
from the Father of peace; they
DO not desire to go elsewhere; and
while welcoming all who come with the
intention of honestly pursuing any
honorable calling, would not go because
the others went. There is to them
magnetic attraction in our hills and
wales, pean Of Tepose in every zephyr
waited down our canyons, and SEEM
ing promise OF hope in the ripping of
every rill and river that courses
through our valleys. Others may
come and go as they will, but
to the Mormon the very word Utah"
is talismanic and freighted with too
much Of love for the past and hope for
the beyond, to permit him to so. He
does not stay here to speculate but to
live with those who are willing to live as
he does; he will, ike. all others, avail
himself OF any opportunities for i'm
provement or comfort placed within his
way; but, with or without such oppor-
tunities or comforts, he will remain
where he is, Those who oppose him
and his people most are least likely to
do this; so that there is no immediate
or any danger ofsuch supremacy as that
indicated by our esteemed California
contemporary.
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graphic columns that Blaine slept late