The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25

instead of receiving assistance from the
outside, she was actually deprived of
that to which she was Justly entitled.
Few people can realize the magnitude
of an undertaking involved in the
building up of a commonwealth fifty
years ago bv people who had neither
wealth nor provisions. and who were
so lar from any signs of civilization
that they might all have persisted un-
known 10 the world Now, however
unfavorable th- conditi ms to the de-
Velopment of Denver may have been,
this Is one great thing that her citi-
zens were not compelled to cope with.
She has always been nearer the civil
zatlon OF the east and has been necessa-
rlly been benefited by it. Moreover,
the disposition there always has been
to build up Denver out of the State, and
1t has become matter of pride to
the citizens of Colorado of all
classes that this should be done. Der
men of money have put the money
taken out OF the State into Denver,
and the work of building the common
wealth has not bsen left to the wholly
poor. Then again, she has been closer
to the railroads. She may have been
Disseminated against by them and
robbed; but never to the extent that
!
her worst times, she suffered the dis
elimination that has to be borne by
Salt Lake to-day. The importance of
this factor-of railroad aid-cannot be
overestlmated. When we have such a
period of railroad support as Denver
as enjoyed for the last three years,
do not think the loudesJ talker as to
the backwardness of this city will have
any reason to complain.
Many other reasons might be EMU
merated. No one will attempt to deny
that outside capital has had a very
great deal to do with the building up of
Denver. No one will contend that Salt
Lake City has had
MUCH REAsON To BE GRATEFUL
for external contributions until within
the last twelve months.
In the face of all these adverse cir
cumstances, there is not a visitor to
this city who is not astonished at the
remarkable degree of advancement he
beholds here, and at the glorious sur
roundings, until some chronic COM
palmer seizes him by the ears
and pours into the listening auri-
fee the story of Salt Lakes
great and lamentable lack of enterprise
and public spirit. This city is the mar
vel and the admiration of the traveller,
until he is beset by these soreheads, and
We have them by the dozen, a class
who, in the finest and most enterpris-
| ing city of the world, would still have
much to complain OF, and many things
to which they could point to cast dis
credit upon their own city. These are
of that class of birds who are never
satisfied until they have succeeded in
befouling their own nests.
Salt Lake has done a remarkable
work. She is in better running condi-
ton than any city in the Rocky Noun
tains to-day, and some of those who
have so much to say, and so little else
to do, will soon learn this fact. For
years the struggle was for existence.
Then came the period when people
could live with partial degree of COM
fort, and their desires were trained to
rest contented with the possibilities
held before them. AS the times have
advanced, and the accumulation of
wealth has made some luxuries
possible, they too have been
taken advantage of. So we have
to the broad and travelled street, from
the log cabin to the two-windowed
adobe house, and from that to the
elegant stone mansion with all modern
surroundings. As the facilities have
been developed, the people have not
been slow to take advantage of them.
And the groWler will find the people
ready to man to take advantage of all
the opportunities his fauIt-fnding will
bring to them, come from whatever
source they may. | am a believer in
my own city, in its destiny and in its
readiness for all that the times make
7 kha4 has haa
fully
A THIRD MORE BUILDING
done this year than in any year before.
That class of buildings in every re-
spect superior to the general run of
those that preceded them, have gone
up; that they contain all the improve
ments and comforts and luxuries that
the times afford. And L find that those
conditions which the people were salts
ned with year ago, are not those that
Will satisfy them to-day. The spirit OF
emulation is abroad. and the year that
is now about to break upon US, will
witness more of advancement in all
desirable directions than the present,
just as the present has eclIpsed the past.
: The degree of refinement, and the in
. huence of higher taste, is not confined
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s all directions, and will naturally widen
g as it grows.
We want class of citizens who can
do something else than wag their Jaws
and find fault with the great work that
has been accomplished here The
: foundation has been laid. 1t has been
E laid well, and l am builder enough to
know that the ediace has largely
been constructed when the proper
, basis has been made for future work. IL
we will begin to convince the stranger
that his admiration and surprise
in the condition of Salt Lake
are not without reason, and that
she has done good work, and is do
ing good work to-day, we will find
better results than we dream for. ALI
) things are moving well. We are about
to enter the race, and the city Is not in
the west that Salt Lake will not out
Jk. Il ~ L l.