The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25
F were asked to name the one thing
above all others needful to advance
Utah's prosperity, 1 would say: A

Utah's prosperity, would say: a
a good reputation, at home and abroad.
a state or a territory cannot prosper any
more than an individual with a bad
reputation.
If Utah is really as bad as its reputation,
it is very undesirable place to live in and
the last place in the world in which one
would care to locate his family. During
the boom period this did not tell against us,
as a man would go to country with repu-
tation bad as hades il he could double his
money in year. But now that we cannot
promise man quite that much return on
his capital, it is important that we should
be able to satisfy him that the people here
are as honest and respectable as they are
in other states and territories
As long as the success of political party
depends on giving the worst reputation
possible to the majority of the people of
this territory, Utah cannot prosper Until
we have faith at home we cannot expect
confidence abroad. Until we believe in our
selves strangers will distrust US. Capital
viii not seek investment in a territory
where universal anarchy is predicted with
confidence unless such and such things
come to pass. Confidence in the integrity
and patriotism of the people is absolutely
essential to create material prosperity. AS
long as dstrust and malediction prevail IN
the councils of a dominant local political
party, so long will capital and immigration
seek other and more congenial commuui-
ties. a house divided against itself will
fall A division on religious or racial laws
in any state will prove disastrous to it's
material development. To the obiteration
of these lines every loyal hand should be
be uplifted. Whoever seeks to per-
petuate these lines is an enemy
to Utah. The highest patriotism
is now and will be directed
at wiping out the animosities that have
grown up by division on religious lines
The longer the uniication Of the people of
Utah is deferred the longer will be delayed
the ample development of our prodigal re-
sources.
Until faction ceases to stlgmatize a
majority of the people of this territory as
priest-ridden and unpatriotic, unfit to and
incapable of making good citizens, so long
will there be a cloud hanging over the title
of Utah to the confidence of outside capital.
On returning from the Denver conven-
ton Judge Goodwin, in an editorial in the
Salt Lake Tribune, said that what i'm
pressed him most was that every man in
Colorado had good word for Denver and
faith in its future. If every man in Utah
during the year 1892 would pledge himself to
speak only good of Utah and its people, its
bad reputation abroad would be in meas
ure changed and confidence in its future
greatly strengthened.
The thing most needed to help Utah's
prosperity is a public sentiment that will
relegate out of all political parties the men
who under the guise of patriotism are STIR
ring up tie strife in which alone they pros
per. We should ''spend no more time in
carving cherry seeds when there are houses
to build.n
When the Mormons saw that they could
not keep the Gentle out, and that even
polygamy and prosely ting could not hold
the fort against the Gentle immigrant
they saw the zig was up'' and that the
practice was "lost cause.'' The Edmunds-
Tucker act only helped them to see the end,
and the manifesto was simply compliance
with the inevitable.
Seeing that the Gentle In here to stay,