The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17
TIE CROAKERS.

The men who are finding so much fault
with Salt Lake because of its alleged lack
of progress belong to that class known the
world over as chronic grumblers. They
are largely, if not exclusively, of the ir-
responsible, on-property-owning class.
They have no interest in the city, except of
speculative character, and would be bet
ter pleased with Oshkosh or Squedunk if
either of these offered better opportunities
for making more money without the invest
ment of capital. If you will in
quire as to the standing of the
men who stand on the street corners
and grumble over the slowness
and the old fogy ways of Salt Lake, you will
find their ''enterprisen consists in doing
nothing themselves and telling others what
to do If you could learn concerning the
men who are Safeguarding the citizens of
Salt Lake through the newspapers, you
would know that the writers are either
eager to ''make staken from other peoples
capital, or very careful of their own money,
spending none of it for the gen
eral good except when the individual
return is large and satisfactory.
You don't hear any of the bona tide
are here, and who have property, croaking
about lack Of progress, about the city
standing still, about keeping back the boom,
and so on. These gentlemen see that the
growth of Salt Lake is about as rapid as it
can be with safety. Steady and healthy
progress is more to them than the tenn
porary spurts which enrich few speculaA
tors and are followed by periods of depres-
sion during which all must suffer When
these gentlemen see that there is demand
for an improvement they proceed to comply,
as Mr.. CULLEN did by the erection of a fine
hotel a year or two ago, as the Messrs
AURRBAcH and SCOTT did last year by put
ting up the magnificent structure on East
Temple street. as others have done and are
doing all the time, as Messrs. ARMSTRONG
and MCCUNB are doing in putting in costly
electric plant for their street railway ser
vice Most of these improvements are
abreast Of the times, if not ahead Of them.
Careful observers believe the street car i'm
provement is from three to six years in ad-
vance of the city'S requirements. If wis
dom shall convince that the town will
support another such block as the SCOTT
AUBRBACH structure, another one will be
erected, not by the iawbone of the corner
croakers and speculative boomers, but by
the cash and ere lit of the cool-headed, cal
culating men who are interested not alone
in the growth of Salt Lake but in the SOL
idity and good reputation of the city.
One grows weary of the plants Of the
impecunious adventures, and tired Of hear
ing them tell the sold, substantial citizens
that the latter staud in the way of progress.
1t is oppressive to listen to fellow who
came here last month with no more money
than will pay for his meals and lodging
single quarter, telling a citizen Of twenty
years that if he will sell his lot he will get
out of the way Of the law of progress, or if
he will borrow money and erect a stately
pile of brick and mortar he will at once be
rich and the town will boom.
The fact is, the croakers to the contrary,
Salt Lake is progressing and is going ahead
Just as fast as it is safe for her to go.
Houses are erected to satisfy the demand,
and people are coming in when there is any
thing for them to do. If there were en-
ployment for twenty thousand hands more
than are here twenty-five thousand would
be here within three months. If five
thousand more dwelling houses, and five
hundred more stores were required, the
demand would be supplied in short order,
and by the very men who are denounced as
blocks in front of the wheels of progress.