The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-16
Under the above heading we find the fol-
lowing in the annual report of the secretary
of the chamber of commerce:


doubt, falling off because the so-called
Liberal party was short of funds and could
not send out into the adjoining states and
territories to bring in trains filled with
''old residents of Ogden.
1t is not true that real estate has ad-
vanced in Ogden city 100 per cent. on &C
count of the Liberal victory. AS a matter
of fact there is but slight increase in the
values over what they were at the time the
Liberals gained the control of the city.
There may have been an advance of more
than 100 per cent. il some of the $4,000
acres added to the city," but in the main
part of the city both business and residence
property are as near as may be at the same
figure as before the election.
The advance in real estate has not been
one half as great as the estimated advance
in population as given by Secretary HoI.-
LISTER. The taxes in Ogden have been in
creased in some instances 800 and in others
500 per cent, but this fact is not men
toned in the report which contains the
above items.
Mr.. GEORGE a. MEEARs some ears ago
Essay on Utah and her Attractions
We well remember that Mr.. HoLLIsTER
was one of the competitors for the prize
and that his essay was accorded second
place, as to merit, among the large num-
Der which were received. THE HERALD
published three Of the essays, his with the
number. Among other things in his essay
iob ro1
lows: 'In no other state or territory are
the taxes so moderate as in Utah. This
statement was true and it had its effect in
inducing people to come here who were
looking for b mes where the expenses of
living would not be more than they
would be able to meet Why doesn't Mr.
HoLLIsTER now say that there is no
other city in Utah where the taxes are so
everlastingly piled up as they are in Ogden,
where his party has gained the political
control, and where it is showing the true
spirit of progress by making it almost an
impossibility fer poor people to stand the
burdens that are heaped upon them? He
knows better than to tell the truth in this
case as he did in the others. AS usual
city by any one of the Liberal party there
is large per centage of it which is manu-
featured for expectation; it makes little
difference who the author is, whether he
be member of the Utah commission, a
governor, or secretary of the chamber of
commerce.
The Ogden election frauds were of that
character that decent people blushed when
attempting to defend tn EN-. Since the cleo
ton the moral atmosphere has become SO
! foul that decent people have nearly choked
to death as they walked the streets, and
it became necessary for the United
States marshal and his deputies to step
in and aid in cleansing it. Decent people OF
all grades of society have had nothing but
words of praise for Marshal PARSONS and
Deputy PRATT for Ethe good work which
they did at Ogden. There has never been
the least necessity for a United States
official to aid in purifying the moral at
mosphere in any city where the Peoples
party had the control. These items, how
ever, were not the kind that would do fol-
expectation, and that is, no doubt, the rea
son they were not given place in Secre
tary HoLLIsTER'S report.
All things considered, inasmuch as Mr.
HoLLIsTER is one of those who have at al
times felt that a portion of their mission il
this city was to try and reform the people
we are little surprised that he should try
to give credit to.his party by reference It
Ogden. Ogden is a good thing to let alone
However, inasmuch as the people in tn,
east who read his report will not know tn,
facts, he, no doubt, thinks it will make n,
difference what he says.
1t is an outrage for the secretary of thu
chamber Of commerce to try TO make tina
associa ton party in political matters ant
his intimation that it was because the ''be
lief has strengthened" that the Liberal
would carry the municipal election il
February, 1902 that sewerage an,
quick street transit have become assured,
is unworthy an official Of strictly non
partisan corporation. Inasmuch as tn
sewerage was carried into effect by tn
city council elected by the Peoples party
who had no fears that the Liberals woul
carry the next election, but on the con
trary who had and still have a firm belle
that they will be defeated, and also tina
it was members of the Peoples party with
out exception who gave the city "quic
street transit" there is something sublim
in the cheek he shows by claiming that an
sewerage for his party.
Secretary HoLL1sTER says, referring t
the erection of the board of trade building
1.-THE directors proceeded with their plar
and have made certificates of membership
valueless at the beginning of their tern
worth s275 each" We confess that w
can hardly see the force of the above whe
we read the following: sit is true tha
about fifty, exclusive of those who hav
died or removed, have not paid annual due
this year, In other words, about on,
third of the total membership have dc
faulted. If ''about fifty members, excl,
sive of those who have died or removed,
; have not paid their annual dues the pa
year, it would look as if they were lackin
: in financial ability and had thrown ava
S245, as the dues would be but $50
share. That is, they have thrown ava
this amount in case the secretary hs
made proper estimate. The HERALD
of the opinion that the estimate of tt
value of the certificate in the chamber
about on a par with the so per cent. il
crease of population in Ogden, and the II
, per cent. advance in the value of re
l estate in that city.
4 Secretary HOLSTERS report is, 1
doubt, to be printed and used for export
l ton, and the falsehood about 'quick ira
sit'' is just the kind to take in the east al
was not that the reason why it was writer