The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-25

Mr.. JAY GOULD is IN the west in search |
IF the health which his sadly overworked |
system needs. He should be good for |
twenty years yet of active life, his body /
being free from the aches and pains which |
trouble ordinary mortals, and his magnif- |
cent brain all the time clear and bright. at |
his age a man ought not to break down, |
and would not if he were to call halt on |
himself when he notes evidence of running
at too high speed and carrying too much
load. The HERALD believes that Mr..
GOULD has taken the proper course. He
heard ''call,' so to speak, aud he left
Wall street and the busy crowds behind
and came to the west, where the mountains
were lofty, the air fresh and pure the
water of natures best distillation;
where the men have good phys
iques and live long, and where we
worry less over the cunning of our
fellows and the tricks of mankind TO cir
cumvent each other than they do in the
scrambling east. In this matter the great
1insncier has proven himself as clear headed
and far-seeiRg as in his encounters with
the bulls and bears, so many of whom he has
aid low. We think he has made no mis-
passed among the everlasting hills" of the
west will add years to his life. AT any
rate, as he appears in this city he is "twice
the man" physically that he was a few
weeks ago when he called a halt ir his
iourneyings and proclaimed brief rest at
wayside station over in Idaho. Those who
saw him then can scarcely believe that it
is the same man who arrived in
Salt Lake on Saturday morning in the
possession of much of his old time yigor.
The west is a great sanitarium, and Utah
is the choicest spot in the west
But we want to say more than congratu-
late MIR. GOULD on his remarkable improve
ment, more than to express the hope that
his life viii be long spared to the world in
which he is a phenomenon. We want TO
say that the hope of the Utah community is
that he has not lost interest in the terri
tory. During the years in the past when
Mr.. GOULD was in control of the Union
Pacific the people generally felt that he
was the friend of U tab, whose resources he
wanted to see developed. When he re-
tired from the road the apprehen-
sion was expressed that both the
Union Pacific and this territory had
lost heavily. The apprehension was soor
verified, for while the road was soon
dwarfed and demoralized, its prestige be-
ing made TO speedily vanish, the man at Its
head soon made it apparent that he had
neither affection nor decent consideration
for Utah. II Mr.. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
had been half as keen to help Utah as ht
was to build up other sections, the Union
Pacific would not hsve fallen into the de
plorable straits in which il was found las
winter when Mr.. GOULD res umed control
Under the lstter'S management marked I'm
provement has been wrought, and some
thing of the old affection for the ROAD
which had been alienated by the Ros
ton iceberg is returning. If Mr.. GoULl
is the far seeing man and the frien
that we assume him to be the improvement
will continue. He viii see that our indus
tries are struggling for existence, and Wi
come into life and prosperity if given tha
support which he can accord: and he wi
see that by rendering that support he vii
DO better turn for himself than for thi
territory. Utah has never asked and doe
not now ask any favcritism. All we wan
is fair treatment. We only request tina
the discrimination against US which ha
prevailed so long shall be discontinued. an
that we be given an. equal opportunit
with other states and territories i
the competitive race now bein
run. We want such fair an
equitable freight rates as will permit GU
great mining industry to thrive, and W
don't want to be told in effect, if not i
words, that there is greater affection on fl
part of the railways for Colorado than fl
Utah. II the railroads will be fair we wi
do the rest Mr.. GOULD is the man to pre-!
the button, and we have such confidence
his fores ght, in his inherent love of JUST,
and in his friendly disposition toward
Utah as to believe that his present trip j
the interest Of his personal health will
followed by an improvement in the indu
trial health of this territory. We belie'
that he will order that III tab shall be treatt
fairly, in which event all OF our people w
be content, and greater prosperity will
once set in.