The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-20
TIE TO SALT LAKE.

The Deserot News quotes without
contradiction and with some apparent
approval the idoa that just now "Salt
| Lake IS the best city in the country to
tie TO.
| Unquesiiopaoly the expression repre-
seats the fact, and the fact itself IS
proof Of much la: ger things than size.
cessful business enterprise or the. Der'
! sonal opiuion OF any ono man or news"
paper. Sale Lake would not be the best
town in TIE country TO tie TO just now
unless we had good government, safe
business conditions; and, further, unless
conditions here were making for the
advanccme nj the vast region which
is tributary 10 Salt Lake.
Salt Lakc would not be good town
to tie to just now, If the city were wide
open, as IL WAS under the Morris adj
ninistration-it the municipality were
ruled by inc twin evils OF loot and in
competence Salt Lake would not be
good city 10 tic TO, ii the chief aim
of the municipal government were TO
extract moneys from illicit business,
and if the chief hope for the political
perpetuation of municipal admjniStra,
tiop lay IN protecting vice so that
vicious etsmpTts might give THEN sup
port. Suit Lake would not be a good
town TO tic TO, # hundreds OF working
rncr were steered into robblng gam
bling dens every Saturday night, piled
with bad whisky and sent home broke.
Suit Lake would not be good city to
tie to, if murder stalked the streets
during an hours Of the night. Salt
Lake would not be good town to tie
to, if its government were controlled
b., bunglers who--intrusted with mil"
lion dollars for specific purposes by the
tax axpayers--would violate the condi.
tions upon whien the money was voted
and involve great water scheme in al
lnost inex-ricable difficulty and confu
sion. Salt Like would not be good
town to tie 10. ii its tax assessments
were levied in such a way as to per-
nit private individuals and institutions
of the Mormon church to escape hun
dTeds Of thousands of dollars Of their
Just burdens while the same was being
imposed in multiplied weight upon the
other individuals aud institutions which
were not affiliated with the Mormon
church.
ln fue, Salt Lake would not be a
good town to tie TO. if it were still un-
der the heel OF hlerarchical despots who
could wTest from IL any franchise, how
over unjust, which would make for their
profit, anr vino could prevent any fran"
chise that looked to the progress Of
the town. who could direct in priest.
hood meeting to q city council the pro-
ceedings OF that body; who could do |
and undo IN all municipal affairs for |
their own pleasure or profit; and whose
autoaraev in public affairs would be a
menace TO the incoming 81 men and !
morev to swell the city's grandeur.
And Ia a WIDER sense Salt Lake |
would not be a good town TO tie TO, if |
tle dab 1lical purpose of the hierarchy |
he'd been carried out and the smelling |
industry had beer destroyed. Salt Lake |
would ooh DO a good city to tie TO, if |
.he hierarchy could continue to rule
Utah with tvrunrous disregard for pub
lie right and civilized sentimentality.
Sal; Lake is the best city to tie to
n the Unitel States because it is
a hmericanized Tor all time; and because
,hc splenaor Of this advancement in its
internal affairs and in the esteem of !
Mankind is destined to spread over the
state Of Utah and all the internloun-
tain country tributary to Salt Lake,
making it the free commercial capital
If free State and bringing to it the
support Of an cnfranchised intcrmoun-
lain region