The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-10
HOW THEY BOOM.

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Salt Lake City is cursed by few par
sons who are determined that they
shall have their own way, and have so
persisted in keeping up cry about
certain alleged evils, existing or to
exist, that great many well-disposed
people have, by constant contact and
reading, grown to beiieYe that the story
they tell is true.
1t is the hope of a few unprincipled
place and money-seekers that they
shall be the rulers of this Territory. 1t
is hope they have shared for years,
and the persistence with which they
have chung to it, in the face of constant
failure. might almost lead one to believe
the old saying that ''hope deferred
maketh the heart SICK" was one of the
things in the good book that was de-
serving of immediate revision. They
cling to it still, and the farther from
their grasp the empty promise flies, the
more shadowy it becomes; the more
desperate they become. Trained in the
art of classifying for long years. they
have grown to be like Moccasin Mac.
who is one with them, until they &C
tually believe the lie told first for
effect. And if O man with any
character drops down among us
with notions suited to existing
times, Gud with ideas in harmony with
the common instincts of humanity, the
work of dragging him back to a misty
period in which it is possible to charge
/ everything without the necessity of
proving anything. is immediately
undertaken. If the man is tfactable, all
goes we'll. If not, he is blackgusrded
and berated until his influence is gone
and tbs man himself begins to wonder
4 he really is born cutthroat and as
sassin and thief as charged. And this
is how iberality of thought and free
dom of action ale inculcated in the
ranks of the faithful adherents of the
few spoils hunters.
Well, let US see what they are doing
1t is charged that if the minority had
control Salt Lake would be made city,
to put it modestly, in the twinkling
OF an eye. Then why not try and
gs5 sufficient number of the minority
side to control the city? So We do, says
one. How? By telling men it is not
safe to live here; by averring that city
Improvements are impossible SO long as
the majority continues a majority; by
Safeguarding men who do not see eye
to eye with them; by crying forever Of
danger when the other party asks for
political rights; by claiming everything
charging for every thing, aud by giving
absolutely nothing.
This clique is represented by press
which the realty dealers themselves de :
clare thsy are afraid 10 send out among
their patrons lest it will forever cut off
the possibility of men coming here to
invest who would but fer it and its in
6uence, have made this their home
permanently. Men fear it and curse it.,
and support it because of the fear in
which they hold its unprincipled lash.
If these things are true, and they are,
beyond the shadow of doubt, does it
argue that this press and those vino
control it are working very hard to
secure the control of this city by the
minority, OIL does it look as though they
were doing their level best to keep out
population2 There can be but one
answer. Only one newspaper has done
consistent work for this city. and The
HERALD is that paper.
1t is the fear of this press and those
who are its pets that there will be an
influx of new and outside blood into
the city which shall have the brains
and the courage to come out from be
meath its lash, and have the manhood
to do that which it thinks is right. The
moment Salt Lake shall put on the
clothes of a metropolis, the power OF
this selfish gang is gone. and the hopes
for power. Office, and consequent
spoils, for which they have
toiled, faithfully enough, the Lord
koows, all these long years, will
fade a way "liks the baseless fab.
ric of dream" and leavs behind
themselves alone as a wreck. They do
not want improvements therefore they
do not want population; the most de-
veut Mormon has not the fear of it by
half that these fellows feel.
Their persistent opposition to COM
munity feeling of progress and develop
ment, the hungry greed with which
they take and demand everything. and
the misery satisfaction and complais-
ance with which they hold fast to
everything, demonstrate this facf.
Just think it over this morning, gen
tlemen of the minority. Ask your
selves if the conviction you dars not
express, but which you have sincerely
believed, has not come to you again
and again during the past twelve
months, that the wrong methods to in-
duce both outside population and cap
ital were being pursued by the paper