The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-01
SEES PROSPERITY HERE
IN CITY OF SAINTS
Prominent IOWan Pleased With
His Visit; Says Kind Words
About Zion.

DR.. H. C. Bone, prominent resi-
| dent of Grand River, Iowa, is q guest
at tho Wilson. To q Tribune repre-
sentative he said he lived five years in
Wyoming--thaC was in the territorial
days of that State. 1t was then, he
says, that he got a slight insight into
Mormon methods, since which time he
has watched with interest the Utah
situation, and for that purpose took
The Tribune Tor many years, a paper
which by the way he says is the best
newspaper published in the West, Its
treatment of the so-callcd Mormon
question, he has observed, has been con
dcmnatory of the practices of tho lead
ers, which III the main are immoral
Illegal and un-Amcrican, and its IN
creasing efforts TO ameliorate the CON
dition of the membership of that church
and TO aid in freeing them from the
power Of mon who arrogate to them
selves the authority to compel absolute
obedience in spiritual, temporal, and
political affairs of all the members OF
the church of which they claim TO be
the head.
The Smoot question, he says, is pret-
ty well understood in Iowa, and 1T is
the general opinion there that Smoot
viii be turned down at the next sit
ting of congress. The Iowa senators, he
sentiments of the people of the great
State when the time comes to vote,
The people OF Utah, and especially
that portion of them engaged IN the
development and upbuilding of the
State. the Doctor thinks, made a great
mistake III not keeping Senator kearns
in the Senate. This information he gets
from men who have served in the Sen
ate with Kearns 1t is claimed for him
boi bn ,,,,l6 ,porp al aid for
his State than any other young Sena-
tor that had ever sat In that body.
Speaking of political conditions In
Iowa, the Doctor, who Is a lifelong
Republican, says they are considerably
split on the Governorship-shot all TO
pieces rs it were. At the head of the
ticket there is too much Cummings
Cummings, he says, has rendered him
self obnoxious TO about fifty per cent
Of his party, in fact i'll his part OF the
State he don T. believe he Will receive
more than thirty-fve of forty per cent
of the Republican vote, and if elected
Mt all, ii Will be by Democratic votes.
This thing, he says, of tamperiug with
the tariff at this time when every man
who wants TO can get rich, will not do,
Labor, he says, is scarce for the rea-
son that everybody has too much mon
ey They feel that they needn t work
unless tney want 10 ana ds general
thing they don Z want TO. In his sec
ton of the State. the southern portion,
it is Il great stock country. The far
mers arc turning their attention to the
dairy business and as a consequence
all arc doing well and many of them
aye growing wealthy. 81 note said
the Doctor, "that prosperity is not
stranger to Utah, what : have seen
of it. Salt Lake, [ can readily see,
is putting forth efforts to become Z,
great city l don't see why she
should not; her resources are of greater
SCOPE and more varied than obtain
with any other interior city of the
DR.. Bone is on hunting and sight
seeing trip and before his return will
visit the wllds of Wyoming In com
pany with an Eastern party IN search
Of big game.