The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24
YOUNG UTAH.

THE HERALD wants the young men OF
this city to give their intelligence chance.
We want them to do a little cool and delib
crate thinking on their own part between
now and the February election. If they
will do this, we have no doubt as to the
outcome of the contest for the control of
the municipality. 1t may as wen be under
stood and admitted at the outset that not
merely the balance of power, but the power
itself, is in the hands of the men under
thirty years of age. 1t may also be as
well to state that the majority of these
young men are either Utah born, or have
lived here since childhood, this being not
merely their abiding place but their home
in the broadcast sense of the word.
1t will, therefore, he readily understood
why we ask the young men to reflect at
this particular time. Upon them and their
action depends the welfare of the city of
their birth and home, and also upon them
rests the matter of deciding whether their
people shall have peace and prosperity or
be annoyed by persecution and deprivation
and finally driven out from the place they
have made beautiful. The Young men can
say, and as they decide the Judgment must
lie, if Salt Lake shall continue to be the
pretty and peaceful city that it is, the pride
and beast of its owners and inhabitants
and the admiration of the strangers who
visit it. They can say, and it will be
as they proclaim, if Salt Lake shall
continue to stand before the world as the
most orderly, the quietest and best-gov-
erned city of its size and population on the
American continent. They can say if Salt
Lake shall 20 along as she has gone, CON
sentative and safe in all she does, and
making progress as swiftly as is consistent
with a proper regard for risk and danger.
These young men have the power to de-
cree that for the next two or three years
Salt Lake will proceed at rapid gait; that
1t will boom" in fact increasing in popu-
lation margelously, and acquiring the dis
tinctiOn of being d fast" and progress
ive'' city, as these terms are understood.
1t is with these young men to say
if we shall have the streets paved
regardless Of the cost, and equally so of the
necessity; if the gas and the electric light
shall illuminate all the streets, no matter
every street, though the abutting land will
sell for little more than the sewer tax; if
an army of men shall be hired to patrol the
streets in police uniform, the taxes being
trebled to pay the monthly salaries; if the
water mains shall be strung everywhere,
though there are not enough consumers on
the line to pay the interest on the cost OF
! digging the trenches. For two or
three years we can have the
most progressive city on the con-
tinent, and in that time we
should be able to supply ourselves with all
the improvements and essentials to modern
comfort. 1t is for the young men to say
whether or not we shall go ahead
and get these things and because it
is for them to decide, we ask them to turn
| to their reasoning faculties for a guide.
| We want them to understand that what
ever Improvement is made must be paid
| for, and by the owners of the land. The
carpet Dagger can create debt, but he can
not pay it. The man who pays poll-ta
or lets his party pay it for him in return
for his ballot, can vote for improvements
costing millions, not one dollar of which
will come out of his pocket.
We ask the young man to ask himself
if it will be wise to involve the city in debt
to the utmost legal limit for things which
the public cannot afford to buy. Will it
be good policy to impose upon the people
taxes which will be excessively burden
some, and which cannot be paid except by
great sacrifice, and in many instances
necessarily result in driving the owners of
homes from the city which they have
helped to build! THE HERALD wants these
young men to inquire OF themselves if it
will be wise to have rushing, booming
times for two or three years, to be followed
by long period of dizziness and prostration,
during which the excuses in which we
have INDUCED viii have TO be paid for?
Then, gentlemen, what of your fathers
ana mothers, those hardy men and heroic
women who endured so much, toiied so in.
cessantly. and suffered privation and hard
ships to found this city and start it on the
way to greatness! Are you, at the sugges-
ton Of a gang of penniless Adventures,
going to turn against these grand men and
women who are deserving the gratitude of
the nation, and say they are behind the
age, that they are old fogies and must
stand aside while the procession passes.
We don't think the Utah boys are that
kind of creatures. We know they are not,
if they will permit themselves to reflect,
and will give their intellects the least
chance forexertion.
Young vi tab has ever been The HERALD's
pride and boast. Its trust has always been
in the Utah boy, and to. day its conf lence
is firmer than ever. We do not believe he
can be seduced from the true and safe
course by carpet-bag fiattery. nor do we
think it possible that he will be guided by
any other than the wisdom which will lead
him Alright. He is proving his character in
the campaign, and az the polls he will be
found worthy of his parents.
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COLONIZATION.