The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-11

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II by five years of labor you can undo
you can but convey correct impress
sion concerning
UTAH's WONDERFUL WEALTH
to 20 per cent. of those who have studied
with curiosity her social conditions you
will have reason to be proud of your
success, for you will have city that
will outrival in beauty, in wealth, in
as 1t now outrivals in CHI
mate, in natural resources and attrac-
tiveness any city between the Missouri
River and San Francisco. These, gen.
tlemen, let me assure you, are ne words
Of Hattery, are no catchwords for
strangers. but an honest, sincere ex-
preston OF what has always, since my
arrival in your city, been my earnest
conviction. l have travelled from the
St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico,
and through nearly every State east OF
the Rocky Mountains, mostly as a
newspaper correspondent, for the puf-
pose of describing the different COM
munities, and Salt Lake, as / know it,
not as have heard of it, is the bright
est gem OF them all, unequalled in ma
turai loneliness, unexcelled in natural
treasures.
Yet, as 1 have said, up to the time
when the Chamber was organized, but
few beyond the borders of the Terri
tory had ever had their attention di-
rected to your material advantages, and
with the exception Of the miner, whom
no obstacle can deter in his search for
gold. still fewer ever visited your city
tor the purpose of studying these ad-
vantages, aud ayailing themselves of
them.
Has our Chamber changed this con-
dltion? Has any change taken place,
and if so, by what influences has il been
brought about? That a change has
taken place, not only the members OF
the Chamber but every citizen of Salt
Lake admits. 1t is not as great as
might be desired, but it IS radical one,
and in the line of progress. What IN
fuences have been at work to bring
about this change? Old residents 40
not discover any new influences.
Strangers have come to you, but they
did not come in the years gone by;
they did not come until they heard the
voice of the Chamber calling them.
AS American citizens, almost without
exception, to whom the right to live and
labor ands prosper on American soil is
a birthright they awakened for the first
time to the advantages enjoyed by
Utah's soil and climate; they became
aware of the amenities of life which you
had enjoyed for years, and upon your
invitation they have come to live and
labor with you in number such as are
not recorded in your past history.
These will cooperate with you for mu-
tual prosperity and happiness, and
your future united efforts will increase
the flow of capital and population to
your city as no other influence could.
MUCH REMAINS To BE DONE,
your past efforts, and
though differences of opinion may pre-
vail as to the methods 10 be employed,
there can be no difference as to the re-
suit to be attained. No community,
no American community,
possesses within itself all the elements
necessary for its adequate development.
The United States was built by drafts
on Europe for population and capital,
and its present progress is maintained
partly by the same means. The towns
that dot the plains of Texas and Kan
sas did not spring spontaneously from
the soil, nor are they the result of pre-
pasation from within. There was
time, and not long ago, when those
towns did not exist, when the ground
on which they now stand was unbroken
soil without factory or q workshop.
This was less than one generation since.
How then did the tens of thousands Of
people which form the communities
find employment? Capital and popuia-
ton came from abroad, from other less
favored localities, and the factories We:
built. So l say that development or
progress does not begin from within.
There is not community in the United
States of which the contrary can be
predicted, and if it could, it would be
found in a state of decay.
| have noticed occasionally in our |
daily papers articles deprecat1ng the |
publication of matter alleged to be mis- |
leading in character because by it's |
it might induce people to come |
10 Salt Lake in search of work when |
none is to be had. because of lack of |
arge industrial concerns. AS your |
secretary, hav- received hundreds of |
inquiries from I IONS belonging to the |
aboring and mechanical class, and 1 |
nave never advised any of them to |
cave their homes in search of work in
Salt Lake. This was not, however, be-
cause l thought they could not get en-
1loyment here. | have had number
If clerks apply to me for assistance in
occurring positions, but never mechanic
,r laboring man, and from the inform
stion l have been able to obtain be-
ieve that during the existence of our
Chamber there have been few, if any, |
die hands in our city.
But even were no employment to be |
lad in our shops and mills and fac
ories, I would tell the unemployed
mechanic and laborer of the eastern
,ity to come to Utah, for they can
tarve to death there quicker than here.
t his family is not large, one of our |
Utah potatoes weighing from sig to
line pounds. will provide half NEIL.
Dur soil is fertile, and idle hands will |
ind employment and wealth in cult
rating it.
WE ARE IN NEED OF CAPITAL
10 organize industries. We have !
plenty of raw material of every variety |
md money in unlimited quantities can
De lucratively invested here. l have
often heard the objection made: Ill
you have all this wonderful natural
wealth, why don't your own citizens, |