The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25

of union and freedom-that south, thank
God, is living, breathing, growing every
hour"
As text for an article on things
most needful for Utah l can find no
more fitting theme than paraphrasing
Ben Hills illustrlous saying: There
was Utah of strife and dissension
that Utah is dead. There is a Utah of
union and freedom-that Utah, thank God,
Is living, breathing, growing every hour"
What Utah needs most to-day above all
material things, is to comprehend the po-
tential truth that times have changed.
even IN Utah, and that the only unchanged
thing TO be met with, reminding US of the
past, is the incorrigiole standing out for the
old order of things with steadfastness
and devotion only equaed by the shoe
maker who put over his door, John
Smiths shop, founded 1902 But the
Democrat who opened a shop across the
street and nailed up this sign: "Estab-
lished 1891; no old stock kept in this shop'
is now doing the business
1t is unseemly that the METROPOLIS
of this great inter mountain country
should be last to accept the changed condi-
dition, and that the Gentle, and not the
Mormon, should seek to perpetuate hatred
and discord.
There Is peace atNephi, concord at Ogden,
harmony of all factions at the Garden City,
and serenity at Logan. Why, then, is Salt
Lake city torn up with distraction and
strife!
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derstood, misrepresented and maligned be-
cause 1t brought success at the north to
political party. 1t was not until the white
sails Of commerce replaced the bloody gar
ment that the union was fully restored and
reconstruction made complete. Fortu-
nately, Utah has no such distracting ques-
ton to solve. ortunately,we are not per-
picked with two utterly dissimilar people
on the same soil
We are ''brothers in blood, in destiny, in
all that is BEST in the past and future We
live neighbory with each other. Their
daughters are lovely as our own. Our
sons court their daughters and marry them
Tor wives, and they live happily together.
Mormon and Gentle meet to discuss COM
mercial problems, and vie with each other
in matters of public enterprise.
The charge is often made that they are
'old fogies, u "moss-backs," but show me
community where the old settlers are not
the con servatives! I found the same con-
dition in Knoxville, Tenn, where third
of the population came in to boom the two
thirds. Because they could not wake up
the old inhabitants to their methods of bal
looming values, they did not go to calling
them names in the papers.
The beneficial influence of a conserva-
tive force is now felt in this city, and had
all our citizens gone to booming values, we
would now be literally tout of sight.n
We must learn to estimate men, as well
as real estate, at their true value We
sometimes forget that the agricultural and
the manufacturing industries are almost
entirely carried on by the ''old fogies." 1t
is very common, and to me peculiar.
to hear a newspaper deride the back
ward condition of the farming in
dustry. Who is to blame for it? Why do
not segment of the influx population go to
tilling the soil and raising something? Why
do not these lberal-progressive people go TO
hoeing and bring something out of the
ground to sell? If the country is backward
it is because the Gentle prefers setting up
in the real estate business to setting up the
soil.
Those of US who make no pretense to
special and exclusive ''tips', from on high.
need have no concern for those who do, as
men have been so constituted in all ages as
to both receive and accept messages from
the unseen world and there can be no par
ticular harm from arming important doc
trines with this high authority; neither
should we rend our garments in fit of
jealousy because we choose to play subor-
dinate roles. There are always buzzing
about US the songs of unseen wires and If
the film of our spiritual ears is as thick as
the epidermis of the rhinoceros we should
notgo snorting about because we are unable
to receive an impression.