The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-04
TO-NIGaI's MEETING.

ton extends beyond the members O.
the Chamber, and includes business
men and property owners generally
The object is to raise money with which
to advertise the city and Territory, and
people are asked to attend the meeting
with the intention of subscribing to the
fund which it is proposed to collect.
1t must be confessed that as q com
munity We have not been as energetic
and enterprising as We might have been
in the matter of bringing the country TO
the attention Of the world. II people
will not be offended We will say that a
good deal of parsimony and downright
stinginess has been exhibited. Every
body has been willing for everybody
else to contribute to help along the
boom, but few who could afford
it have put their hands into
their own pockets. Talk, which
is cheap. and the gratuitous work
ofthe local newspapers, have done all
that has been done in this matter. In
the aggregate, the community has
made millions from the rapid apprecia-
ton Of values, and individuals have
made thousands. 1t is now proposed
to see if these individuals will devote
some of their gains to the general good
aud advancement, or if they expect to
go along, proftiDg from the efforts If
others, keeping tight hold of what they
have, and grabbing everything else in
sight. ANY of US can name men, whose
possessions have been trebled in their
selling value within six months, who
have not given q nickel to help along
the advance; there are others who have
pocketed thousands from the increased
prices, and who do not act as if they
owed the community anything. Nine
tenths of our wealthy men made their
money in this city; they came here
poor, and have grown rich, and one
would naturally expect that they would
be willing to help the town some, which
has done so much for them.
THE HERALD does not want to be
understood as scolding. Our purpose
is merely to show what has and what
has not been done, and to urge the
doing of that which must be done, if |
the city is to benefit from the boom
movement setting in in its favor. We
cannot sit down and hide the resources
and attractions of the place, and ex-
pect people to search US out. If we
would derive the benefits from the
natural advantages we must let people
know of these advantages. If We ex
peet mills and factories and furnales
and producers and consumers gener-
ally, We must get the builders and
manufacturers and people Of all classes
here and show them how it will be to
their advantage as well as our own, to
stay and do what We want them to do.
In plain words, We must do something
to attract the attention of the people
with money, with brains and with mus
Gle, who are seeking the opportunities
which we can present.
1t is not aims that anybody asks; it is
not donation that is requested. 1t is
simply that everybody will do his share
towards bringing the benefit which will
be enjoyed by all. 1t is hardly neces-
sarv to say that the inv stment will be
a profitable one in financial sense. For
every dollar expended, Is it is proposed
to expend the advertising fund, one
hundred dollars will be returned to the
community, and the men of means will
get the lions share of the returns.
THE HERALD hopes there will be a
large attendance at the meeting this
evening, and that men will go
there with wisdom, patriotism
and generosity in their hearts,
and their bank books in accessible
pockets. We sincerely hope hand
some fund will be collected to detraf
she expenses of letting the world know
what Salt Lake and Utah have that the
world wants. We have run on the
cheap and narrow principle long
long in fact that the bust
ness is growing monotonous and weari- :
some even to the earnest men who have
been working to aid the city and
Territory only to see Others rpaping
the substantial rewards. We certainly
should be as enterprising and generous ,
in our own behalf as the one horse
towns of California and Colorado and
Kansas, which spend money for adver-
Using and grow rich and populous as
result.
1t is for the business men 10 say at j
The meeting to- night if the growth and
development of Salt Lake shall be
witt or at the snail's pace.
AN Holy I.0An Z;