The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-27
A FRATERNA1 WELCOME.


hearty welcome to the representatives
of the press who for few days win
honor our city with visit If the.
metropolis of Utah had any gates of
entrance they would be thrown wide
open to our distinguished Guests. and
the guards at the gates, With a flourish
of trumpets, would mE.9e the mountains
ring with their NOES of welcome. But
this is free city. and its freedom is
extended to all the knights OF the
quill Who favor us with their pres
ence.
We hope our friends Of the profess
sion which has no superior among men
will enjoy their sojourn in Salt Lake.
We wish them to feel at home. We
have nc doubt they will make good
use Of their eyes and ears while in the
Mecca of the Mormons. the city of
the Saints, the Zion of the latter days,
as it has frequently been called. They
will find it to be a cosmopolitan place.
Here are gathered people from many
nations, holding various opinions re-
hgious and political. and in most re-
spects very much like other people in
the east and the west. the north and
the south of our common country. They
will all welcome the editors who have
come to see US.
Utah, once a desert, is now a IA
pored and beautiful region. Its eli
mate, taking it the year round. is IN
surpassed in any part of this great
continent. Its resources, only just COM
menced to be developed, are so vari-
Gus and SO vast that we have neither
time nor space today to enumerate
them. All the agricultural products of
other parts of the United States are
raised in Utah. Her cereals and her
fruits are of the finest quality and are
brought forth in great abundance. Her
minerals make up a list including all
the valuable metals known to science
and the arts. In addition 10 the pre-
cious metals we have iron enough to
feed all the furnaces of the country,
coal enough to furnish them fuel, salt
enough To pickle the nation.
Our industries include many
branches of manufactures. We raise
more wool than can be worked UP in
our factories; more beef and mutton
than our population consume; more
horses than they can put to work Our
shelters run out bullion to ship abroad
from the great mines which bring out
the treasures Of the mountains. All
kinds of stone abound for building
purposes and for ornamental uses.
Capital is the one thing needful to
fully develop the extraordinary riches
that await the energies of man. Their
magnitude is such that only by the
organization of muscle and money can
they be fully utilized.
In education Utah is coming up to
the very front rank. We can point to
our common school buildings with
pardonabie pride. and in a greater
degree to the hosts of intel
hgent young people, quick to
learn, who occupy those state
ly ediRces. Our colleges, too, are of
no mean order, and the crown of our
educational system is the University
of Utah, which we may fairly regard
with open admiration.
Wealth in Utah is more evenly di-
vided than in most places on the Amer
lean continent. A very large proper
ton of the people dwell in their own
homes. and in the rural districts cult
vate their own farms and are meas
urably independent. We have no alb
ject poverty or absolute restitution.
The waters that flow down from the
melting SHOWS in the upper heights are
utilized by system of irrigation which
has been a pattern. for other portions
of the once arid regions of America.
Our people are progressive, patriotic,
enlightened and sociable. They are a
music-loving and music-supporting
people. They are not of the puritanic
order. They love the drama and the
dance. They read good books. They
appreciate wit and humor. They be-
lieve in freedom of opinion, of speech
and of the press. Though divided in
politics they are united in acting to-
gether to secure the glorious boon of
statehood. that Utah may become an
integral part of the Federal Union.
They are devoted to American insti-
buttons. They revere the constitution
and honor the flag of their country.
They appreciate the power of the press
and ask only that it shall speak of
them as they are. not as they are re-
ported to be by people who know
The Herald cordially greets every
member of the fraternity in the com
pany that comes today Call on us,
ladies and gentlemen, The latch
string is out. No matter what may be
your politics. your nativity, your faith
or your unfaith, we welcome you TO
the valleys Of the mountains, to our
lovely saline lake, to our hearts and
our homes. May you have a right
royal time and feel that in the cham
bers of the everlasting hills you have
found true friends, fellow citizens of
our great republic. whose greeting is
from the soul when they give you
clasp of the hand Welcome and
good time to you all,