The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-15
Mac s Saturday Chat

WAC 8 Odturday Ahat
man whose business calls him to all
parts OF the city and who is IN close
touch with a number of the important
local industries says that Salt Lakes
population has increased during this year
more than 5000 He also says that most
of this increase is In adult male-that
their families Will be brought here as
soon as a sufficient number OF houses
can be procured at reasonable rates to
domicile them, II this estimate is ap-
proXimately correct. 1T is fair to believe
that the population OF Salt Lake will ex-
ceed 100000 in the next twelve months.
II is also fair TO believe that the popula-
tion Of Salt Lake City and county soon
will have increased fully $4,000.
There is no doubt that the business
men OF Salt Lake City are feeling this
! impulse, but do they realize what It all
means to them? During this year a
greater sum Of money has been paid TO
wage earners by fully forty per cent
than ever before in the history of Salt
Lake. Fully S7000.0 900, in addition TO the
ordinary development Of the city, has
been expended In new industries and
betterments. Probably fifty per cent of
this vast sum has been paid out to the
man who tolls. The Tribune itself has
expended for labor several fortunes and
soon will be housed in It's new home.
The Tribune company has faith in Salt
Lake. 1t believes that this will soon be-
come one OF the great cities Of the west
as 1t is already one Of the most active
cities in a business building way, 1t Is
the purpose OF the promoters OF this
great newspaper to keep 1t so far In the
lead that it Will reflect the enterprising
spirit manifest here and be the principle
factor In announcing to the world Salt
Lakes immense resources and possibili-
| ties.
! Stranger things have been seen than
| the defeat of Joseph Howell for nomiu-
alton for another term in Congress. The
entrance Of Frank w. Fishburn into the
fight is believed by many to be a distinct
movement on the part Of powerful in
| fluences to sde-track the Congressman
and still keep that office In the hands Of
man who would be subservient to Reed
Smoot and to the dominant church,
| Smoot desires Howell's denomination.
but Smoot may not be all powerful with
the delegates In the approaching Repub-
| lican State Convention The intelligent
Mormon people have come to believe that
| Smoot Is q better Smootite than he is a
| Churchman. That he thinks more Of
himself end his own pompous political
ambition than he does OF the church OF
Jesus Christ OF Latter-day Saints, They
also believe that he has brought to the
| church more suffering, through severe
criticism and to the Mormon people
more heart aches than any other man in
a generation. They believe his friends
when they say at Washington that Reed
Smoot hasn't enough religion to hurt"
Indeed. and that Is the kernel of the
nut Reed Smoot has no religion to hurt,
He is plain. tenacious. rough shod poll
| tioian. II there was ever anything In
| famous In the methods OF George B. Cox
| of Ohio, of the late Matthew Stanley
Quay or of the notorious Boss Tweed OF
| New York. Reed Smoot, IN a degree. is
the personincatiou Of all OF these. He
has not the brains. but his lack of this
element is made UP by the quality OF
| his strength a churchman,
| Men obey him because he falsely pro-
| fesses to be a prophet, seer and a
! revelator. Thousands obey his behests
believing him to be link between the
| material and the spiritual world. Thous-
ands more think II impossible for him to
err because of his alleged direct COM
munication with Him who Is the Giver
Of all Wisdom This may seem sacrilgi-
Gus. but 1t Is true. and Reed Smoot. the
charlatan, the political trickster, the
wrecker Of his party, the destroyer Of
peace in his church. gads about the
country, saint among saints In Utah,
I free-liver and q sinner at the national
capitol.
| No place on earth could q charlatan
be as deeply dyed as here, but 1t is en-
| couraging to say the least to see that
| intelligent members OF the Mormon
church refuse to longer be led by him,
! to be imposed on by him, 10 be made
| tools OF by him and are coming out In
the open his pledged political ad-
| versaries
What could be expected of the man
| choosing for his leutenants such char
acters as James H. Anderson, r, H
| Callister and William Spry! Ono
| notoriously crooked another anything
| but consistent party man. and another
| debaucher Of the judiciary. Two of
these. beyond question, bolted the Re
publican nomination because OF personal
| disappointment.
| Are these not the leaders OF the Re-
| publican party in Utah? Can any man
| name three others who are so distinctly
| so certainly leaders this trio? Is
| there, therefore. any wonder that Smoot
| Is In contempt with real Republicans
| that men who are Republicans because
| they believe In the principles of the party
| refuse longer to follow standard borne
| by the Smootites Of Utah?
| What a measly bunch some of tho
| guides at the Tabernacle are these daysl
| What a quantity OF deceit and falsehood
| they pour Into the ears OF some Of the
| Eastern tenderfoots who tour the country
| annd do the sightseeing act In Temple
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