The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-29
A JACKAL SCRIBE.

q osAAAl AllOllBuuu SltGb WIFI an uIlSdNOGY
reputation, gave squirt of enterprise. 1t
set out to boom itself for revenue only,
and seeing in Utah what it regarded as a
possibly promising field for plucking it
bounced down upon this city with the
gaeed and hunger of the iacl1al. A ''can-
vasser" came first, with instructions to
praise and promise, and being affable and
having something of reputation here as
gentleman, he was kindly received and hos
pitably entertained. He obeyed Office
instructions literally in the matter of
promises, our people being assured
that the columns of the Republican would
be fair, Just and generous to Salt Lake.
There had been bilking before, and some
were chary; but there had been no expert
ence with the Omaha sheet, and people
were inclined TO accept its promises in
good faith. The result was that the SO
icitor returned to the city across the river
from the Bluffs with liberal list of sub
scribers, and a man with pen came to
keep good the papers agreement concern
ing Salt Lake and Utah. The first of the
correspondents letters was printed last
Sunday, and as a specimen effort of litera-
ture intended to help town it sur
passes anything we have run. across
lately. The Republican should be
proud of the effort, and ought
now, while the thing is fresh, send
out another solicitor to take subscriptions
ON the s rength of the service it is render
ing to Salt Lake. AS the letter is of the
three-column variety, THE HERALD can, of
70 MI Fa, &c q.
ments. AS these viii be illustrative of the
whole, our readers will not wa 1t more, nos
viii the people of this section, without re-
gard to religion or politics, want more of
the Omaha Republican while it employs as
correspondents champion liars, vile black
guards and men who apply to their imagin-
atiOns for their facts. Without prelimin-
airy explanation or the setting forth of why
it should be done, the correspondent says:
A more thorough system of colouizing voters
was, am told on every hand. never before acted
upon than that Of tie Mormon leaders at this
time. They are bringing in parties OF men vary
ing in number from one 10 j hundred every day
N pstly foreigners.
As there has not been and is not likely to
be single instance of Mormon colonial
tom for voting purposes, it is not worth
while to pay further attention to this state
ment. Running down the column the writer
asks: ''Why do the Mormon leaders refuse
to make improvements" the query imply
ing that there has been such refusal or
failure to make improvements. Then he
answers himself in this original manner:
TIE one general cxplan ltioa is that they want
TO stop Gentle immigration to the city, depreci-
ate property in every way possible and in the
publicly prayerful hope that even the GeutiIeS
already here viii both sell out and clear cut. II
is gOGding them TO the quick to see that notWith.
standing their course the city is growing rapidly
in point OF Gentle population and wealth, and
particularly that the flower of the church does
MOI acquiesce in such a course, and that its
youths are caught reading and listening to terse
practical talk upon every street in the city
as il comes from the Gentle pre- and business
men.
Her, the Mormons are exercised greatly
over tue immigration, depreciating their
property so as to discourage others from
coming, and are doing all in their power to
arrange matters so as to live within them
selves. This is all wrong in the esteem Of
the correspondent Dit is rot in the opinion Of
everybody else), but that gentleman, with
logic that is convincing beyond cavil, in the
next paragraph tells how the Gentiles are
to work a scheme for playing
into Mormon hands, and doing the very
thing which the saints are vainly attempt
ing to accomplish. Read this and then
know that it follows Immediately the above
extract. We suggest that liars, to be sue
essful, should have system as well as
semblance of consistency in their lying:
II the Mormons win. then what will be the
to Salt Lake city: Only another |
nf roth in
business center, and one of the greatest |
counter moves Of revenge upo1 the Nor
mons that perhaps ever was conceived |
in an American municipality, and il re
mains for the Repgji1caR Of Omaha TO make
the first public mention OF this great move The
Union Pacific and Burlington Il Missouri rail
road companies have just bought thousands of
acres Of very valuable properly. TO the south
east OF the city. The purchase was on a semi
secret plan. If the MormonS gain this forth
coming CITY election and continue to refuse
element will be given business property, build
ingS and all, including such other inducements
sertion of Salt Lake city by this element-mean-
ing many millions OF doilarS-thus completely
turning the tables on the Mormons by depreciat-
ng their property fully one-half, robbing them
D. thousands of their enterprising young bust
less men and demoralizng them TO the extent
of bankruptcy.
And he goes again, rafting along in fine
style, amusing the local read or, and making
5he Republican appear ridiculous in the
eyes of everybody ont this way:
As the irresistible push Of the Gentle genius
to manifest itself here in Salt Lake
;ity, one does indeed find the quaint and |
modern iostling together at every turn. Pass
along whatever business street you Will and
Tou find fine business blocks going up six and
line stories high, while their walls rub against
,ome little old one story frame store which q
struggling Mormon tradesman built and Tabled
With his own hands-in one instance the GLORY
% God Grocery'-away back at time
inter the town. Within speaking distance of
he worm eaten and distressingly warped doors
" the famous old temple, you find a stylish store
iled with the latest goods on which the daShing ,
ientile proprietor makes splendid profit.
4 bout the same distance from the Bee Hive" Is
Ehere Brigham Young and his nineteen wives (
nee lived and where but three OF the surviving
fifteen nov live is very snowy and modern
owned and occupied by a shrewd {
4entile who has made some Sl50,0O0 in real
state here within the past three years, and
made IL mo silly out OF the Mormons. too, not
the fact that not one OF them can |
dignitary Of the church, in order that the
hurch may get its rake of.
The church is doing all in its power to
'revent the coming and settling of the
Gentle genius" and has such firm hold
N its adherents, the owners of the land,
hat none can sell without obtaining its CON
emit. and vet one ''shrewd GENTLE" in
hree years makes S150,000 in real estate,
mostly out of MOrmons." Again we sug-
est that the liar is failure who is with
ut system The Omaha genius proceeds:
Whenever one sees building improvement,
neither business or residence, it can, ninety ,
i e times in a hundred be set down. as belong 1