The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-16
ENCOURAGE ENTERPRISE.

Mr.. Wheeler's proposition to estab
Iish in this city stock yards and a mea
packing house, strikes Us as ing abOu
the right thing at the right time. Thu
bonus asked by the gentleman Seems
somewhat larger than the enterprise
he proposes will justify the public IL
giving, but that is a matter which W.
will not now discuss.
For eighteen months We have al
been earnestly endeaVoring to induce
immigration. Everybody has beer
asked to come, and Inducements have
been held out to capitalists, business
msn, mechanics and laborers. We have
done all this, but what have we done
to keep here those invited and who
respond2 We tell the capitalists thai
there is money in manufacturing, and
he asks where is the market for his
his goods2 He does not see the people
who are to buy and consume what be
manufactures. We say to the me-
chanic and laborer that wages are
high, and it is the truth, but many
mechanics and laborers are idle as
there is nothing for them to do.
Men with money are wise and eau
tious, and laboring men cannot afford
to lie around a town until something
for them to do turns up. The former
hayes not accepted our cordial invi-
tation, because they did not see their
way clear to the prosperity promised
them, and the latter have not come be-
cause they learned there was nothing
for them to do. The situation is prac-
tically the same as it was year ago,
SO for as immigration and local enter
prises are concerned. We are still
waiting and wanting.
The HERALD has said on more than
one occasion that Salt Lake people
need not look for others to bring the
city prosperity, until We by our own
acts, inspire confidence in these others.
It will take more than words to induce
strangers to put their money into en-
terprises of which we are afraid. We
may send cars all over the world.
laden with exhibits OF our material
resources, and if our own citizens have
not sufficient confidence in these
resources to employ money for their de-
velopment, we will plead in vain
to intelligent outside capitalists. They
will loan US money on gilt-edge
security, and tell US to show our faith
by our works. Tell them that we have
the finest clays in the world, for in
stance, and that a pottery would pay
handsome dividends on the capital in
vested, and they will say, as some have
already said, "You have rich men with
idle capital, why don't they invest?"
Gentlemen, if Salt Lakers will lead
the way and point out the same, others
viii follow; but if not then we might as
well stop talking to the outside, and let
matters move along as they have been
going. If we would have this big and
fourIshing city. we must bring in peo-
uIe and furnish them something to do;
industries must be established, re-
sources developed and utilized and the
means of living furnished for the peo-
pie. A meat packing establishment
should be a good thing for the city,
bringing to it a good deal of money
and indirectly, to SONS hundreds of
hands. Other industries would be good
for the city, concentrating at this point
both capital aud population. Those
most interested in the growth and
prosperity of the city-lhe land owners,
the bankers, and the merchants-should
exert themselves to bring such enter
prises here, and show more substantial
sincerity in their desire for the towns
growth than can be shown by mere
words.