Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-02
ONE THING AT A TIME.


There are few sohoolboys who have
not learned something OF the propo'
sitlon OF how non-resultant Is the effort
that Ia scattered, and a. they grow up
they are able to understand by actual
observation that tho successful self
made man Is the one who directs his
energies mainly Ia one channel, his
mind TO one line OF action. This IA
true rs to everything else. In our
efforts to effect n restoration OF busy
times and larger supply OF money for
business purposes, wo are constantly
bcset with too many proposiiloas, each
requiring Immediate attention, ut the
same time. We no sooner launch out
ior the contamination OF some great
improvement In n certain way thnn
other ways are thrown open and atIen-
ton 10 usually diverted to them Just
long enough to lose sight OF what We
started out with, aud oitenor
than otherwise, between two or more
stools ali come to the ground, whereas
had we gone ahead ~ We Intended
In the first place We might have
accomplished something.
1t should be- remembered that this
community has been for two or three
years passing through a very dark
period, financially considered. And 1t
ia not yet out OF the woods, although
the daylight from the opon seems to be
shimmering through the surrounding
trees. To effect the exoruism Of the
spell which is upon the business inter
eats hereabout and thus inau gurate
the improved condition for which all
classes are 30 DESTROYS, requires united
action, and since the means whereby
such action can be made potent come
forth slowly and umidly,it were better
for the present that IL bs concentrated
ms much as possible. Let us at least
have one thing fairly on the way be-
fore setting out actively for
the accomplishment OF others or any
other, since under the circumstances
1t seems 30 probable that moro than
one cannot receive adequate attention
lust now. To branch out as things
stand, Ia too apt to mean no many pro-
jected enterprises partially completed
and left In that condition, with the
money, labor, time and incentive TO
go ahead all thrown away. This
would be worse than no movement At
all.
In view Of tho fact that 1t has cost
such an eflort-so many efforts united
IN one we ought 10 say--tO effect even
a commencement for the proposed
copper smelter, does 1t not occur to 0ui
men OF c apital and push that it would
be we'll before permitting our energie,
TO be turned In any other channol tC
see that one clinched and well on IN,
way with all distractions weedei Out
and nothing surrounding or Ia the real
to cause hindTance or delay? II We
were not In such n depressoi condition,
whereby all hands CO slider themselves
poorer than they really are, we
might at this stage properly urge
that other prospectiyely beneficial pro.
JeCts receive attention. A grand boul-
evard,I a splendid park, numerous
enterprises OF oonsequence-ali these
are things to be desired anu looked for
butte press for them too earnestly just
at this juncture, whom none OF tho
things expected 10 yet absolutely rs
sured and to relax effort to even a sllgu
extent would surely mean failure
seems to us a lit e bit too risky, Let
us land one fish before trying fol
another, at least until We get more
tackle TO operate with.
1t ia our firm belief that but Tor on
continued dabplIns in the policy allow
spoken OF we would now have at leas
one western railway,and the mind tina
oanuet Azure out more prosperity 70