Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-04-01


In the meantime the merchant won
ders how he is going to sell goods
enough to make expenses, while the
woman in want of dress cogitates
on how to get the money needed to
buy it. The coal dealer curses the
luck that prevents him selling a ton
to the poor devil who sits shivering by
his empty stove wishing he had the
money to buy. The farmer marvels
at the fall in the price of eggs and
the man who works on the street
when he does work-ponders at the
fate that denies him eggs for break
fast when eggs are cheap. Even the
booze dealer looks askance at his
cash register as he mentally calculates
the number of his old customers on the
water wagon for reasons of economy.
In the meantime the malcontents
are busy whooping it up. president
Smith is a prophet" you are a
liar!" president is not a prophet"
"You are liar!" tom Kearns lied
when he read that speech" "You are
a liar!" "Tom Kearns told the truth
when he made that speech" "You are
a liar" "The members of the church
are living in polygamy-" "You are a
are obeying the law" "You are a
liar" mind your own business"
"You are a liar!"
Nice situation of affairs isn't it?
All this in the face of the fact that
a new railroad has been opened, that
puts us in close connection with the
business and social advantages of an
other state; all this in the face of the
20 ot hot rnad ic COMING from
Denver as fast as it can that still an
other line is to be built right away
from Salt Lake to San Francisco.
Those railroad conditions would add
$4,000 people to the population of any
other city the size of this; those con-
ditions would add twice that number
to the population of any other state
such as this one.
But what of Utah? What of Salt
Lake City?
Nothing except that families are
leaving for other places where no in
terminable war such as we have is
waging; that houses are empty; that
business is dull; that collections are
bad; that work is scarce when work
should be plenty; that the scale of
wages is low when it should be high
tI lndI lhClC 10 hiOiC poNSi'y "'''
distress than there should be.
What's the matter with Utah?
This eternal, Internal, internal agi-
tation that is being kept up; that's
what's the matter with Utah. This
mean, dirty, contemplate scrap. This
ill-timed, ill-mannered, blackguard
fight made by the Tribune and the Her
aid on the one hand and the tart, sour,
grabbed, sharp, biting, snarling con
test waged by the News on other.
Brutishness VS.. Feasibility; brain fe-
yer against the govt. These papers
circulate beyond the confines of Utah.
People read them and form opinions.
Editors copy articles and comment up
on them. The outside public learns
on the one hand that the church is
a hierarchy; an octopus with its tenta-
cles twined around everything in
sight and that a GENTLE stands no
more show here than a snow ball in
the land made famous by Dante and
Milton, while from the News 1t gathers
the glad tidings that he who protests
against granting franchise to a cor
poration made up of members of the
church is an "agitator" and "liar."
The outside public acts accordingly;
buys a ticket with a twenty-four hour
stopover, looks at the temple and tab