The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-03-29
UNSEEMhY.

If Salt Lake becomes too greedy it
might become necessary to tell her the
story of the dog and the shadow. Salt
Lake isn't Utah and if she becomes too
greedy in her efforts to secure the ag-
ricultural college she may find ere she
gets through that she hasn't got a
dead cinch" on the capital. The Cow
countless" as some Salt Lake people
are pleased to call them, don't enter
tain the very best Of feelings toward
the big, overgrown country town, any
how. and very great effort on her
part may fan the smOldering flame into
a pretty hot fire. We wont charge the
Salt Lake delegates anything for this
gentle reminder.
We find the above paragraph in the
Logan Nation of the Goth and have a
few words anent it which we hope
both our cotemporary and the business
men of Salt Lake will read. The fault
we find with Salt Lake, as the metropolis
of Utah, is not greediness, albeit we do
not claim that she is entirely free
from the vice. In the matter of the agri-
cultural college, now that it has been
located for several years and costly
and beautiful home has been supplied,
and the further fact that the people of
Logan have arranged their business
and built upon the supposition that the
institution was, and is to be fixture,
we strongly favor the idea that ii should
not be touched. Let the unlver-
sity stand upon its own merits.
Let it take care of itself. Let the
state give it whatever it can without
injury to other interests. Logan has
some sort of vested rights in the agri-
cultural college, These must not be
taken from her to build up either the
university or Salt Lake city.
But with all this we can see no JUS
tice in assailing Salt Lake as our co.
temporary does. No city in any state
has climbed to metropolitan proper
tions without attracting the hostility
of the lesser towns, and to some ex-
tent, too, of the agricultural and out
lying counties and towns. 1t is nat
ural and to be expected, 1t would be
unreasonable not to expect Salt Lake
to do just what all other, towns dose
cure all the advantages possible. 1t
would be unreasonable to expect her
to give Of her riches to less fortunate
places unless in the way OF COM
pensation for real value received. The
fault of faults that she has committed,
in our judgment, is, she has been too
conservative in her patronage of the
other towns. In the one thing of ad-
vertising, she has been entirely too
conservative. This is a fault. Be-
sides the direct and legitimate
advantages conceded to exist in
legitimate advertising in the pa
pers of the country towns, she
would thereby win the active friend
ship of the papers and most of the peo-
pie also. Now we venture the aSser-
tion that if the Nation had been carry
ing three or four columns of advertise
ments for Salt Lake merchants, bank-
ers and business men generally, at
fair prices, it would never have
published the aboye article, Sowe see
that while it would have been a most
wise business policy, its moral effects
would also haYe been wholesome and
benign. No one town can stand upon
its own basis, however great its ma
tural advantages may be. There is
nothing at Salt Lake that we may not
have just as well at Provo, save the
capltal-snd it is no dead sure thing
that we may not haYe even this in
time. Then surely it would be we'll
for Salt Lake to divide her patronage
with the Provo papers, so that she
would be entitled to a kind word now
and then and the respectful interest of
our people.
If this is true of Provo it is also true
of Logan and every other town in Utah.
This is sort of give and take world
anyhow, and we do not take without
row unless we give. An old negro
Btanzs reads this way:
The man what hath good goober peas
And giyeth his neighbor none,
Shan't have any ofmy goOber peas
hen his goober peas are all gone,
This is neither elegant nor forcible
composition, but it uncovers a bit of
human nature which exists everywhere,
and Salt Lake will find that it is far
better to share her good things with
her smaller neighbors than it is to be
compelled to fight them all on every
proposition that comes up for her own
sggrandisement.
While this is all true, yet it is in ex-
ecrable taste and it is of the worst
policy to fly into a passion and scold
like fish woman, as the Nation has
done. Harsh words butter no par
snips," Mr.. Nation, as you will find
before you grow to be six feet high.
THE silver men of the west are about