St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-13
GEAT|LES MAY COME IN.
The Manager of the Salt Lake Herald,
at the Ryan,
PROPHESIES UTAH'S FUTURE
He Says the Mormons Are Not Opposed
to the immigration of
Gentiles.

At the Ryan hotel yesterday were
registered r. W. Sloan and wife and T.
A. Wickersham, all of Salt Lake City,
the land of Mormons. Mr.. Sloan, who
is manager of the Salt Lake City Daily
Herald, is a Mormon born and bred,
and there was much of general interest
in an interview had with him by
GLOBE reporter yesterday.
"Never BEFORE" said Mr.. Sloan, shave
L known as strong community of in
tereSt in any specific diredtiOn as exists
to-day in Salt Lake City, and really over
the territorygenerally.'
"YOu do not mean that all the citizens
of Salt Lake and Utah have arrived at
the millennium stage where they are of
one mind?''
Certainly not"
''Then in what direction does this
unity manifest itSelf?"
''ln desire to further the material
interests OF Utah. have already told
you that l am a Mormon, and when some
of my friends of my faith knew [ was
about to start East they gave but one
word of advice. 1t was that l should
use what influence l possessed to induce
the infiOwing of wealth into Utah, to
give employment to our own idle and to
the idle of other sections who might
hope to find home in Utah. 1t is pOpu-
larly believed that Mormons do not de-
sire an influx of outside or nOn-sym-
pathiZing elements into the territory
they have so long controlled locally.
But when we find willingness ON the
part of these MormonsNin fact, an
anxiety, as very many display-to ad
vance Salt Lake City materially, and
that, too, by inviting foreign capital to
invest there, it does not look as though
the opposition of Mormons to the very
end they are furthering can be so strong,
after ALL"
"But is it not fact that there has
been opposition to the incoming of Gen
tiles?"
mo, think not. But there has been
opposition heretofore to the selling OF
homes by MormOnS to those whom they
believe to be bitter opponents. Omit
ting the religious features associated
with this subject, the wisdom of Nor
mons, as politicians, i'll
PREVENTING THE SALE OF LAND
to those who would vote against them,
cannot be questioned, though their
farsightedneSs as money makers GER
tainly may not be commended"
''But is this opposition not as pro-
nounced as ever?" O.
ut is not. There are those who per-
sist in holding to their homsteads, as
they do everywhere, and the reasons.
whether religious or otherwise, are
those common to men everywhere"
what attitude do the church leaders
assume on the Utah law question:"
LAS ecclesiastical authorities, none.
What their private sentiments may be
I do not know, But this l do
know-ever day records the sale
of land by MOrmOns to those who aIe
not of their faith, and in some instances
the transfers have been to men who
have bitterly opposed their faith and
worked vehemently against them
politically"
Show is this to be accounted for?"
"You see we are i'll the world now.
Thirty years ago our people were isolated
growth of time our boundaries, which
were then remote from all, have been
gradually encroached upon, until to-day
surrounding us on all sides are common
wealths as prosperous in many respects
as our own. though by no means so
favorably endowed and enriched by
nature. l have already said there was,
to my knowledge, no opposition to the
incoming of Gentiles, though there are
those who will tell you l am astray
IN MAKING THIS ASSERTION.
''But be that as it may; be the opposi-
ton what it may. we have come to recog-
nize the fact that this population will
come in despite of all opposition"
why do you say there will be an
incoming of population unsympathetic
to MormOnism?"
~ say it because l have yet to
find an opposition strong enough
to deter men from undertakings
which they believe will make them
rich, and any man who has
made himself even slightly acquainted
with the resources and advantages of
Utah must recognize the fact that no
grander future awaits any section of the
country than must come to our terri
tory. The people of the United States
know nothing of our territory. Could
they only be brought to feel that their
money was as safe in Utah as in any
part of the United States, we would not
be striving to make known our rare adj
vantages as we are to-day-the only
question would be how we could find
room for you all.
"But is capital safe in Utah? Is there
no danger of Il serious rupture there
against Gentiles, if not against the gov
ernment?'
''The idea is so richly absurd that 1
have to laugh every time l hear it sug-
gested. just think of the matter
for moment, and you will
realize its righteousness. In the
history of Utah the people have not suf-
fered so much as during the last four
years. | speak, of course, of the Nor
mon people-because of prosecutions by
government officials. Yet, when the
greatest possible public distress pre-
vailed, no one had any fear of harm. /
have met Chief Justice Lane again and
again alone, and on lonely streets, on
very dark nights, when grave bodily
harm might have been done him, and /
do not believe the judge ever had
A THOUGHT OF PERSONAL DANGER.
| mention this merely to show the
temper of the people when most tried,
and to convince you that the fear of
personal or property danger is unknown
to any man in Utah more than any
where else"
"Well, to what do you look forward?''
''TO the building of grand city on
the present Salt Lake and to furnishing,
some day, the most prosperous state in
the Union, population considered"
We know that in Salt Lake City we
have an ideal climate; that our lake af-
fords the finest bathing in the world
and that our mineral springs are not
whit behind those of Arkansas. We
have an atmosphere the equal of any in
the Rocky mountains; our agricultural
basis is far ahead of any in that region:
as vegetable and fruit-raising sectio n
we fear no competition. We lead in
local manufactures in the Rocky noun
tain region, and while Montana and
Colorado produce more gold and silver