The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-24
JUST as WE ARE.


Utah Is a great, grand and glorSeus
place te live in, and It's greatness, sso-
les and grandeur are only partially de
veloped and got half appreciated Is far
as they go.
It is the fashion Of countries where
there is a reasonable fragment of the
temperate zone bestowed By Provi-
dence, to rave daily, hourly aid ever
Iastingly about their climate, Now. it
is the prevailing feature of &ry part of
the footstool between certaln parallels
of latitude to haze conditions of tenn
peratuYs and 1ceteorology not run
ming to extremes as general
thing, but in the main adopted to the
welfare uof these who were born and
raised in that zone. Some parts of it
NAV he a little more subdued in winter
on the average, and ether parts not
quite so whitening under the ardent
-rays of theeummer's sun; but even in
those supposedly favored places the
prince and power of the air" will oc-
caEionaAy let the elements go on frolic
and upset things badly, if not danger
o1sly. Take for example Florida.
with its usually tropical condition
all the year round; the orange
crap was badly injured late last winter
BY the blizzard, which almost stove up
some portions of the north; Texas fire.
ouently has cold, chilly waves in the
middle of summer, and also had her
proportion of the big blizzard; the
same With lower California, concern
ing whose climate more lies of different
shades and shapes have been told and
printed than can be said of anything
anywhere else. Well, we came in for
our share along with the rest;
we had for few days such
aWfutweather that it was always I'M
comfortable and under some circum-
stances dangerous to be out of doors;
and a couple of Sundays ago we had a
wind and dust storm the proportions
and ferocity of which were the nearest
a cyclone wave of anything of the kind
within the memory of that revered
and omnipresent citizen, the oldest in
habirant. These, as before suggested
were only freaks. If they con-
stituted our steady condition,
we would be located badly
and this would be an excellent place to
visit ouly in dreams or with the eye on
msF'
What are the facts, apart from the
above? There is no better temperature,
taking it altogether; no more gorgeous
sunsets, more balmy breezes, more
salubrious atmosphere, more awe-in-
thrift, comfort and general welI-being
spring scenry, and no more
perfect picture of independence,
can be found, unless in some
presently unexplored country. Millions
of dollars in printers ink have not been
squandered nor have numberless souls
been scared with the sin of wilful and
wicked deception in the effort to make
twice two count twelve nor to impart at
least an ,ashen gray to a color which
nature created black. None of these
things prevail, and we are glad to be
able to state upon what we consider
reliable authority that they never will. |
Advertising is proper, and we believe in
doing even more of it than is done
in some cases; but this must not be con-
strued into an endorsement of the circus
poster style, of conveying announce
meRts-more on the bills than is per
formed, and everything highly and alb
surdly colored. Facts are good enough,
and on facts alone We can afford 10 |
stand there is IL fall in the case-our
foundation and whole structure so far
are too solid for that.