The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-10
SALT LAKES GREATNESS.

the credit of the good work which that
party is doing for Salt Lake City. This
shows an envious and Querulous dis
position which is but little to be ad-
mired. At the same time. the Herald
is struck with admiration for this
work, as is evident from the fact that
il is melted thereby to an enthusiastic
encomium upon the advantages of the
city and upon the certainty of it's great
ness
Now. it is evident to everyone that
Salt Lake is bound TO be a great city.
That has been our constant contention.
It has mighty good start right now
toward greatness. But the question is,
how can the consummatlon in this di-
rection be best forwarded7 Undoubt-
edly, by the continued ascendency of
the American party. Everyone not on
ly can see, but claims, that Salt Lake
is bound to be one Of the foremost
cities of the American interior. There
is not the least doubt about this. The
only question is whether we shall crawl
to the ultimate destiny in this respect,
or whether We shall "get up and
dust" and get there as speedily as
possible
Everyone remembers the pail of
gloom that fell upon this city upon
the election Of Mr.. Morris to be Mayor
in 1903 Eeveryone recalls the lethargy
which prevailed during that admins
tration. Everyone recalls the abortive
attempts of the officials of that admin
istration to do something for the city.
The Brigham street improvement is
fresh in mind, where the city engineer
Of that time undertook to bedevil and
spoil the work, and could only be re-
strained by the most strenuous efforts
of Colonel Wall, backed by the City
Council TO get reasonable job of work
done; and to effect this, Colonel Wall
had to give his personal guarantee.
Everyone recalls the abortive speci-
fcations of the Big Cottonwood con
duit, and everyone knows the inferior
line which was chosen for that con-
duit and which later could not be rene
died. The defective specifications,
however, could be remedied, and were
remcdied as soon as the American party
obtained power They would have
had to be remedied sooner or later by
any administration, no matter under
what name, but it would have been i'm
mensely more costly to have remedied
them after the work was done than 1t
was in taking the work when but lit
tie had been done and finishing IL ac-
cording to the improved and better con-
sidered specifications.
Everyone remembers the copgratula-
tions, and the throb of Joy which
thrilled the United States everywhere
on receiving the news that the Ameri
can party had redeemed Salt Lake
City from church control. Everyone
knows that thereupon the hundreds who
had not been able to make living
in Salt Lake City during the para
lyzed time of the Morris administra-
tion began to make arrangements to
come back. They had departed by the
hundreds; they came back by the
thousands. Business picked up, as by
magic, and everyone noticed the change.
The bank clearances showed enormous
gains from week to week as compared
with the like weeks Of the year before
Everything under the Morris admins
tration was on descending scale.
Business was done, to be sure, but in
restricted way. The bank reports
were a perfect gauge Of this, and they
show the enormous change toward pros
perity made at once upon the incoming
of the American administration.
1t has been truly said that the very
best advertisement that Salt Lake ever
had was that news on the bright No
vember morning Of 1905, which herald
ed to the United States the triumph
of the American party in this city. 1t
is admitted by every progressive citi.
zen that the very best advertisement
Salt Lake can have in the future will
be the fact Of the continued dominance
of the American party here, and the
consequent strength and activity OF
; business, the largo bank clearances, the
: huge and important enterprises, sam
pies of which have been numerously
set on foot under the sbrewd and pro
, tecting care Of the American admins
tratiop,
l There cannot be the least doubt about
this. The figures are plain, absolute
certain, indisputable. The fact canno
be escaped from, that Americanisu
4 triumphant here and prosperity in bust
4 ness, industry, and finance go hand. il
, hand, and mean one and the same thing
Consequently the lesson is that Amer
canism is the best possible thing TO
! Salt Lake City. The inhabitants her
i know this, and they are determined t.
g protect their own interests, and, at tn
= same time, to advance the great caus
and principle of Americanism hero, b,
seeing that the American party is con
=, tinued in power from henceforth
SHOOTS BAD BARGAIN,