The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-15
THE REGATrA-rHE RESULT.

hElIAITA-IdE RESULT.
If it shall be found that the waters OF
Great Salt Lake Gas is anticipated) per
NIT of more rapid time being made
than on fresh or ocean water, Salt Lake
City will have found one of the best ad-
vertisements that could possibly be de-
vised. Let US hope that in addition to
its other virtues, Great Salt Lake will
possess that of fast boating.
The time between now aud the day
OF the regatta is very short, too short
for the advertising that railroads would
like to do. But there will undoubtedly
be large number of visitors in the city
Let US suppose they exceed 1000 in
number, what will we do with them?
When the school "marms" were here
some of them were glad to get cover
by sitting UP all night.
For its population Salt Lake has
probably better hotel accommodations
than any city in this country; but Salt
Lake is the best hotel town in the
country for its population. We have
yet to hear of single failure in hotel
keeping in this city where the man
knew anything whatever about the
business.
Every visitor who comes here will be
an advertising medium. He will say
our hotel accommodations are good or
bad as he is accommodated and
charged. He will say Salt Lake is
growing or dead city as he hears her
citizens talk.
How shall we treat them. Men have
come into this city with money in their
pockets to invest and gone away with
out laying out more than enough to
cover their hotel bills because business
men have decried the city. A mans
enemies are those of his own house
hold. So also are city's. There are
men in our city making money and
making it fast who do not
want to see Salt Lake grow.
They are afraid of competition. They
are afraid usury rates will
be cut down and borrowers be enabled
to get money at fair and just value.
The regatta will be of very little use
nay, it will be an ultimate detriment if
the influence of such prevail against
tie energy and enterprise of those
whose large public spirit and patriotism
seek a general prosperity and are will
ing to give of their mite that it may be
realized. If we would save our reputa-
ton, let US hedge the visitor around and
protect him from a friend. We may
apply the poets exclamation: "God
save me from my friends; I'll take care
of my enemies"
Still another class working against US
are those everlasting croakers who are
never happy unless damning one-half
OF our citizens or another. 1t is their
stock in trade, and while they exert
their jaw bones, or pens. or presses to
vomit their spleen, it is Of one piece, and
their occupation is gone when they
are muzzled. Those who would have
this regatta do good work
should beware of these also. The last
classes named have robbed this city of
millions of dollars in good money in
years past. They are robbing it every
day; and are keeping out and driving
away brain and energy that, permitted
to abide and encouraged to do so,
would bring to all veritable harvest
of gold and do much to replace Salt
Lakes swaddling clothes with metro
politan wearing apparel.
Your work is not done when you
raise the funds necessary to guarantee
the, regatta; it is not done if it be in
its Immediate results money-making
concern. The stranger must be kept
from knowing that good as our hotel sc-
commodations are, they are insufficient.
The croaker must be muzzled, and
Heaven only knows what can be done
with those whose vile hearts see nothing
but evil in one part of the community,
and whose traitor instincts forever urge
the holding up of the city while they
are forever cutting the throat of every
honest exert1on which attempts to real
lie this city's prosperity.
Such, you will find, never give dol
lar. but they have more to say, and
.nust be tipped or they will try and
souttIe every boat put on the lake.
we trust we are not liable to be mis-
understood.