The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14
A Solid Train of Utah's Best
Products.
PUT THE BEST SIDE FORWARD.
Scheme to Give Series of Dramatic ana Art
Entertainments in the Prin-
cipal Cities.


Patent medicines comparatively worth !
less have made the men who advertised
them millionaires.
The power and potency of printers ink
is too well-known to need defense.
There are, however, other ways of ad 1
vertising that can be utilized to secure the
same results and perhaps better results.
The Ogden carnival, which was so
pluckily undertaken by thu people OF tina
enterprising city, demonstrated that the
people from the east innot be induced for
love or fun to come across the continent to
see the biggest show that can be put on
foot.
Exhibitions, fairs and carnivals must re
main for the home people, as the outside
world cannot be induced TO undertake
week' Journey TO see any less show than
that which nature has provided in these
rocky canons, hills and valleys and the
great salt sea with its wonders. And
these are on exhibition duril 6 every sea-
son of the year.
Ogden's effort to move the world west
until it was ready TO move-proved a
fasco. ~
+ Salt Lakes expenditure of $4,000 in the
cas- tern press did not move the earth this
way very many inches though there will,
no doubt, be returns from the outlay for II
year to come: quietly dropping ia. silent
as the snow take, but mighty as noun
tain DRIFT that in melting, swells the
streams and replenishes the valleys.
But $40, 900, though a great deal of money,
commands but very few inches in the
newspapers of the country. 1t Is but drop
of rain on a desert, and while it will moisten
a few sands The great waste OF humanity,
thirSting for the moisture of information,
remains untouched.
act 10 TON
ible about U tab and tue meagre Intelligence
she receives reaches but one man in u thou
sand. While nearly every person has read
something of Salt Lake, few are well in
! formed
1t was the principal business of one half
| the people for a great many years to put out
the worst possible stories about the other
| half.
Any man or any people is Dad enough
when the best side is put forward. When
only the worst side is pictured they become
demons. This distorted view in regard to
the people of Utah prevails to d more
alarming extent in the east than is gener
q ly believed If the preiudice5 of the east
could be removed, and All honest knowl-
edge of tae situation in this territory be
had, enough people would swarm in in a
year to sweep Utah into the union of
/ states.
Right here it may be said that the ma
licious reports that have been sent out by
1.-THE ring' in regard to the condition of
affairs in Utah have done more to keep
gentiles away from Utah than the actual
condition.
Ii is the Liberals. not the Mormons, that
are keeping gentites out OF al. If there
was a time when Mormons duo Lneir utmost
at discouraging outsiders from coming here
they could not excel the zeal exercised by
certain newspapers. TO prejudice the out
siders against the people Of Utah.
A person leaving the most darkened cor
ner of the most remote settlement because
the conditions of life were uudurable, is
yet to be heard of.
The charges made are unsupported by a
single fact.
When once reports are spread broadcast
over the country, they do an injury 10 the
Mormon by maligning his true character,
and to the Gentle by discouraging other
Gentiles from joining them and shariOg
their blessings and prosperity in this rich
valley and heavenly climate.
Therefore. 1t is to the common interest oil
both Gentle and Mormon tuat distorted
: notions held by the people of other states
be corrected.
Nothing would do more to place Utah
: right in the east than by sending a train
! load of its highest products and by 1t:
highest prophets IS not meant cabbage:
> and turnips, but art, women and mer.
= The frs and most pronounced visible
and audible evidence OF Utah culture is
her dramatic company. The second. ant
one which is the spontaneous product O.
, the quiet secluded life and exclusive
: atmosphere, rica IN the sylvan sounds, /:
. the guitar club. The comes the marching
forces of the new era the drum corps, tn,
bataliions of the peaceable conflict, and
that fine body of young men, the Liberia
;. band.
With these Utah could go east and show
q the world who and what she is. Specimen
:, of our finest painters, the greatest work
= of sculpture and other evidences of tn
J, classic arts would help swell the train
. The moderniZed commercial art, pho. o
,, graphy, would show the eas,erner tn
!, Savage side of Utah, which, by the way
is one with an atmosphere of soft peace.
The young ladies of the parasol dane
are fine specimens of Utah products, am
would no doubt like to go, too and the
could fill d place in repertoire OF play
chosen for the tour, like a glove
b Last of all, three cars with the nlateria
q products could be coupled on to the center
: NAL train. The plan of advertising a grea
B. city with one car, Is too old and ancient
/ The variety of Utah's productions is to
. immense to get a specimen of eachof it
e resources In one car.
= This solid train Of Utahs best cultur
anu crops. SGedUllnH across Un6 cOnIlncn
e would do more to open the eyes of tn
# world tnan sl0J, 600 spent III the advertiser
& columns of the eastern papers, and it woul
come near paying its own way.
No theatrical combination on the roa
r ever gave such ii street parade as the Lii
!; erai band, drum corps and mandolin clu
can give.
: The fact that Salt Lake has one of tn
e best amateur dramatic companies is uu
q dreamt of in the east Tie fact that sh
e has painters, sculptors anu Musicians wit
= national and even international merit
n little known.
b The back of Utah has been held forwar
:, to the world as the cal face of the territor
y SO long that it is high time to turn abou
y face, forward march and vindicate the Uta
q of today.
+. Utah's solid train in it's tour of the pril
i cities would command the admiration OF III
!. American people, ana che newspaper
would devote columns of space to such
novel representation of the resources
the territory. 1t would not be paid adve
Using, but important news which the gre;
l. journals of the country would detail the
II reporters to gather at their own expense.
V WAX Works.
D, She .'1ad Them Down Fine"
!. 81 think you may send me Il quart {