The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-07
WE MUST Do,

All are saying good things of Salt Lake
| all are predicting and promising that this
will be great city; from the press OF
Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada comes words
of Qualification for this burg, and every
body comedies that this is the great city of
the vast inter mountain region. Some of
the more sanguine are emphatic in the as
sertion that nothing between Chicago and
San Francisco will equal Salt Lake, Omaha
and Denver being assigned secondary
places. We take good deal of stock
by the fiattering predictions. We are
confident that Salt Lake will be the
metropolis of the interior west, and be-
lieve that in little while Denver will be
struggling to hold her own in the competi-
ton race for wealth and population. Our
loyalty and devotion to Salt Lake are SUI
preme.
And yet, gentlemen all, don't be offended
il THE HERALD suggests that it will re-
ouire something more than talk among
ourselves and boom advertisements in east
ern and western newspapers, to make this
city great. 1t would be no trick at ali to
fetch here $4,000 or 100000 people; that
could be accomplished in six months or a
year; the trick would be to keep
them here and have them as sources
of wealth and strength. To make
this great city there must be population,
and population will come only when there
is something for men and women to do We
may speculate in real estate until dooms-
day, and benefit the city not at all; wemay
hold prices aloft until they stagger those
who gaze upon them, and do Salt Lake no
good; we can bring in people by the thous-
and, and unless there is employment for
them they will be an injury to the place.
Let US boast of our location, of the CHM
ate, of the scenery, and of everything that
men seek and appreciate, but let US not
forget that there must be something more
substantial back of Salt Lake than
climate, scenery and location if this
city is ever to become the population and
commercial center that it is hoped she will
be. Rich men will not make the city great
if they keep their money in banks and
bonds; when they do this they are nc
better for the town than the same number
of poor chaps who live from hand to
mouth. To be valuable 10 the place the
rich must put their money into something
that will provide employment for the poor
the laboring classes who are everywhere
| the more numerous and who form the real
strength of the community. The rich must
develop the resources of the place, must
bring business to it, must make it possible
for the poor to live by toll.
WHAT'S being done which has for its
object the making of this city perma
nently great? Who is establishing fac
tories in which to employ the laborers
that must reside here if Salt Lake is ever
to be the mighty city predicted? What re
source is being developed that was M
utilized when the city was moving along il
the quiet ante-boom days! What is beins
done to attract trade and concentrate thu
business which big city must have
| What grand scheme is on foot which
means much for this city!
Gentlemen, somebody with enterprise
and capital must soon get a 'imove on him
SELF" and show his faith in Salt Lake
other than by specializing in real estate, O.
people will begin to inquire what there il
going on that will make this city great ant
| populouS