The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-04
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.
q HAPPY THOUGHT.

From an American" party source
comes the amusing suggestion that the
$4,000 advertising fund which the Real
Estate association is raising shall be
devoted to the announcement in large.
circus poster type that Salt Lake is
an American city and that Utah is TO
be an American state"
Imagine the immense value Of a four
sheet display billboard with such mat
ter on il as the americans" are cir
'culating and printing daily about Salt
Lake Fancy the haste with which
immigration would flow i'm and capital
seek investment here if the ''Ameri-
can" propaganda could utilize $4,000
in such rot as it has been prOmulgating
about the city and state. Picture, If
you can, the advantage to the state and
the city of iamboyant eulogies of the
Thompson administration Of Salt Lake.
the beautiful street department. the
virtuous city council. the economical
management of city funds and the I'M
approachable protection afforded life,
property and the Mcwhirters by the
police department under the control of
George Sheets.
Blazon it to all the world i'm pink and
blue and green printers ink that Salt
Lake has a police judge who holds that
slot-machine gambling is not gambling
so long as the bets. are paid in cheap
cigars and poor whisky
Put emphasis on the fact that as an
"Ameri ami city Saft Lake permits only
one contraction, to- bid on public work
with any hope Of securing the job.
Announce all over the country that
Sunday liquor selling is illegal in Salt
Lake-for any saloon man who refuses
TO contribute to the American" party
campaign fund.
In the proposed exploitation OF salt
Lake as an american" city the central
position Of the place geographicallysa Gas
distributing center need not be men
toned because prospective investors
care very little for such minor advan-
tages. The fact that il is a beautiful
city. with a great school system. that
fl has an immensely rich agricultural
country at its doors. and such mineral
wealth nearby as would made a Col
conda Insignificant. that Nevada is
pouring its gold into Utah. that Ida
hos new population is building up a
commercial empire for It, and that no
other city within haif a thousand miles
has such transportation facilities-all
these are Of no account and need not be
mentioned in the advertising matter
which the Real Estate association may
send out. Nor need the construction OF
the Western Pacific, the extension of
the San Pedro into Nevada's best
camps, and the completion Of the Short
Line into Yellowstone park cut any
figure I'm the publicity plan.
All that is necessary to double Salt
Lakes population in three years and
bring untold millions here for invest
ment is to mention, i'm large type al
ways, the simple fact that Salt Lake is
an American" city controlled by Ez
Thompson and George Sheetsl OF
course A. J. Davis and Tom Black and
NJ. f. Mulvey and the other reform
ers" ought TO appear somewhere on the
posters, but that is not distressingly
urgent since a good many ignorant
fasteners do not know therecis such
thing as an American" party i'm Utah
unless they have subscribed to it's cam
paign of defamation; and Il might be
unfair 90 the party 10 advertise the
character OF it's councilmen i'm view of
its great professions of reform"
OF course the people who subscribe TO
this $4,000 fund are to have nothing to
say about its use The idea that it
should really be devoted to promoting
Salt Lakes best interests and that the
men who pay the bill should be con-
suited about the expenditures is too
puerile 10 think about. The "Ameri-
cans" have paid no heed TO the tax
payers in their administration of the
city's finances; why should they ask the
subscribers TO this advertising fund
what shall be done with their money?
A good many palates will be sur
1,rieed when the new uure food law 1otu